The “driving force” behind Scotland’s Freight Books, co-founder and director Adrian Searle, has left the company. He said: “Following differences over strategic direction, and after six years as publisher at Freight Books, and eight years as a director of Freight Design, with much regret I have decided to leave the business I own jointly and resign as a company director to pursue other interests.” Lena Khidritskaya Little has joined Little, Brown as assistant director of publicity; previously, she was with NatGeo Books. John Glynn has joined Hanover Square Press as editor. Previously, he was associate editor at Scribner. Author of bestseller Zen […]
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Quarto announced changes to their sales and marketing structure. The global English language sales team now reports to Ken Fund, in his new role as chief operating officer, and is structured in three main channels: US sales, UK and Europe sales, and international sales. Andrew Stanley will join as sales director of UK and Europe, effective July 10. Previously, he was deputy director of group sales for Thames & Hudson. Tim Loynes has joined as director of children’s sales; previously he was head of special sales at Abrams and Chronicle Books. Mary Aarons becomes director of sales, e-commerce and ANZ, Canada, Asia, and Latin America. Monica Baggio […]
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Haslett, Hill, Alexievich, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in eleven categories on Saturday night, including the new Christopher Isherwood Prize for autobiographical prose. The winners include: Fiction Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nathan Hill, The Nix (Knopf) Current Interest Svetlana Alexievich, translated by Bela Shayevich, Secondhand Time (Random House) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Wesley Lowery, They Can’t Kill Us All (Little, Brown) Poetry Rosmarie Waldrop, Gap Gardening (New Directions) The other winners were: Volker Ullrich (Biography); Nick Drnaso (Graphic Novel/Comics); Benjamin Madley (History); Bill Beverly (Mystery/Thriller); Luke Dittrich (Science and Technology); Frances Hardinge (Young […]
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Stephany Evans has joined Ayesha Pande Literary as an agent, where she’ll continue to represent her list of adult fiction and nonfiction. Previously, she was a principal at FinePrint Literary Management. At Chronicle Books, Jeff Wiebe has been promoted to director of operations; Sarah Billingsley has been promoted to executive editor of food and lifestyle; and Lauren Lubell has been promoted to industrial designer. Awards The Booker International Prize has announced its six-title shortlist: Mathias Enard, Compass, translated by Charlotte Mandell (Norton/Fitzcarraldo Editions) David Grossman, A Horse Walks Into a Bar, translated by Jessica Cohen (Knopf/Jonathan Cape) Roy Jacobsen, The Unseen, translated […]
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Sharon Kunz has joined Da Capo Press as senior publicist, focusing primarily on their Seal Press list and reporting to Lissa Warren. Previously, she was media engagement manager at Globe Pequot. She will be based in the Hachette Boston office. The American Library Association has promoted Mary Mackay to associate executive director for publishing, effective June 5th. She will lead ALA publishing and its Editions/Neal-Schuman, Booklist, American Libraries, eLearning Solutions, Digital Resources, and Graphics imprints. At Ingram Content Group, Nick Yates has been promoted to manager of operations analysis in Greater Nashville. Christy Johnson has joined as client relations manager for Ingram Academic Services in New York. Adaptations The long-gestating efforts to develop Robert Jordan’s Wheel […]
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Emily Angell has left St. Martin’s Press. Chris Kepner is no longer affiliated with Victoria Sanders & Associates. Foreign rights inquires for the agency may be directed to Jessica Spivey. Heather Rose won Australia’s Stella Prize for The Museum of Modern Love (Allen & Unwin). Patricia Spears Jones won Poets & Wrtiers’ $50,000 2017 Jackson Poetry Prize. The Authors Guild is rolling out a Guide to e-Publishing on a chapter-by-chapter basis, as part of a broader new online Writers’ Resource Library. Editorial manager at Editora Rocco in Brazil Vivian Wyler, 63, died on April 16, after battling cancer for many years. She was about […]