Former president of F+W Media Sara Domville will reunite with her old boss, joining America’s Test Kitchen under ceo David Nussbaum on April 24 in the new role of chief revenue officer. She “will be responsible for driving revenue growth in a number of key company divisions including sponsorship, licensing, underwriting and book sales.” Domville left F+W last July. Bookseller and publisher Donald Weiser, 89, died on April 12. He worked alongside his father at the Samuel Weiser Bookstore in New York and led the publishing company Samuel Weiser, Inc., which was sold in 2000 and became Red Wheel/Weiser. He was a founding member in 1975 […]
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Beth Ryan has been promoted to senior director of sales for ministry services at Harper Christian. With the recent closing of Tyrus Books, the imprint’s founder and publisher Ben LeRoy is leaving Simon & Schuster. Andrea Hall has been promoted to associate editor at Albert Whitman. Eden Sugay has joined Chronicle Books as trade show coordinator. Previously, she was gift sales and support representative at Ingram. National Book Foundation director of marketing and special projects Sherrie Young is leaving the organization today. Forthcoming Stephen Colbert‘s MIDNIGHT CONFESSIONS, a book based on the segment of the same name from his television show, in which […]
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By a narrow margin of 69 votes, consultant and president of non-profit Information New Wave Loida Garcia-Febo was elected president-elect of the American Library Association. She will serve as president-elect for one year before taking over as president at the 2018 ALA Annual Conference in New Orleans. Emma Berry has been promoted to editor at Crown. Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin has been meeting with prospective literary agents, the Hollywood Reporter notes, “to discuss a book that is envisioned as a reflection on how her personal and professional lives collided during the campaign.” Clinton is said to have blessed the project. The New York Public […]
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Bethany Buck has joined Bloomsbury Children’s as editorial director. She was editorial director at Skyhorse’s children’s imprint Sky Pony Press. Harper Christian announced three leadership changes to help “aggressively pursue additional content sources.” Daisy Blackwell Hutton has been promoted to vice president and publisher for the nonfiction W Publishing Group imprint. Amanda Bostic will become the new fiction publisher, while Matt Baugher will take on the new role of senior vice president of author and partnership development. Quiera Hall has joined Open Road as business development operations associate, reporting to Caroline Ziegler. Baker Literary Scouting has been appointed US scout for Beijing […]
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At Grove Atlantic, Katie Raissian has been promoted to editor, while Allison Malecha moves up to associate editor. Zachary Pace and Nicole Nyhan have each been promoted to assistant editor. Gretchen Mergenthaler has been promoted to art director and Cindy Hernandez joins as junior designer. Open Road has announced a number of promotions. Renata Sweeney has been promoted to associate marketing manager; Greta Shull and Paola Crespo have each been promoted to marketing associate; and Daniel O’Connor has been promoted to marketing coordinator. Mauricio Diaz has been promoted to art director, while Amanda Shaffer has been promoted to designer. Matthew […]
Whitehead, Thompson, Desmond Among Pulitzer Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday, as Colson Whitehead won the fiction prize for his much celebrated novel The Underground Railroad, which also won the National Book Award and was clearly the consensus “book of the year.” Similarly, Matthew Desmond, a winner of National Book Critics Circle Award this year, took the general nonfiction award for his widely praised Evicted; while Heather Ann Thompson’s Blood in the Water, an NBA nominee, won for history. The complete winners and finalists across all of the book categories are: Fiction Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (Doubleday) Finalists Adam Haslett, Imagine Me Gone (Little, Brown) C. E. Morgan, The Sport of Kings (FSG) History […]