Ed Spade has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as director of digital sales and strategy. Previously he was senior account manager for content acquisition for Ingram Content Group. At Harper Christian, MacKenzie Howard has been promoted to associate publisher of Tommy Nelson children’s books and Thomas Nelson gift books; Jennifer Gott has been promoted to editorial director of specialty publishing; and Holly Halverson joins as editor for specialty publishing. Previously, she managed her own freelance editorial business. Katy Lynch was promoted to senior publicist for children’s and young adult at Sourcebooks. Eric Myers has left Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret to start his own agency, Myers […]
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Olivia Taussig has been promoted to senior publicist at Viking/Penguin. Awards Claudia Rankine has won the 2016 Rebekah Johnson Bobbitt National Prize for Poetry, a $10,000 award presented by the Library of Congress, for Citizen: An American Lyric (Graywolf). Nathaniel Mackey won the Bobbitt lifetime achievement prize. Forthcoming Amulet will publish the 12th book in Jeff Kinney’s Wimpy Kid series on November 7. The cover and title will be revealed April 27 before fans at Carnegie Hall. In the new book, “Greg Heffley and his family decide to get out of town and celebrate Christmas at a resort. ‘But what’s billed as a stress-free vacation becomes a holiday […]
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Sarah Pelz will join Atria as executive editor on April 24, reporting to editor-in-chief Peter Borland. She is currently executive editor at Grand Central Life & Style. At Ingram Content Group, Lisa Tomasello has joined as director of mass merchandisers sales. She previously served as senior national accounts manager for Macmillan. Elenita Chmilowski was promoted to library marketing manager, and came to Ingram with the Perseus distribution team. Noah Schwartzberg has joined McGraw-Hill Professional as senior acquisitions editor in the business group. Previously, he was acquisitions editor at Fairchild Books. At Chronicle Books, Amelia Mack has been promoted to lead designer […]
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Parkeast Literary Agency director Gloria Koehler has retired, and her duties have been outsourced to another firm. Donna Eastman will stay on as editorial director at Parkeast, and will continue to market its books. Koehler is cfo of Splinterfire, a family-oriented literary referral service she started with Donna Eastman. At Chronicle Books, Ariel Richardson has been promoted to editor, children’s. Lizzie Vaughn has joined as designer. Zak Nelson has joined Seattle-area Third Place Books and takes over as manager of events and marketing at the beginning of May. Most recently, he was a book reviewer for Shelf Awareness and a bookseller at Amazon Books. As planned, Wendy Ceballos […]
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Michael Martens has joined IDW Publishing as director of trade sales, and will act as liaison with Penguin Random House Publisher Services when they take over distribution in April. Martens had been consulting on that relationship, and was previously vp of trade sales at Dark Horse Comics. Harper Christian has appointed Tim Marshall senior marketing director for Thomas Nelson and Zondervan Gift Books, reporting to Michael Aulisio. Previously, he was an independent marketing and brand consultant. By most standards Pearson ceo John Fallon should have been fired by now, given the company’s disastrous performance. Instead, he was awarded a 20 percent increase […]
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At Chronicle Books, Viniita Moran has been promoted to senior web manager. Alina Buevich has been promoted to designer of marketing communications. Awards The New York Public Library announced the five finalists for the Young Lions Fiction Award: Clare Beams, We Show What We have Learned (Lookout Books) Brit Bennett, The Mothers (Riverhead) Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You Charlie Freeman (Algonquin) Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun (Liveright) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin) The winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are: Fiction: Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes (HMH) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin) Nonfiction: Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures (Morrow) Poetry: Tyehimba Jess, Olio (Wave Books) […]