At Doubleday, John Pitts has been promoted to vice president and executive director of marketing. Judy Jacoby has been named vice president and creative marketing director. Lauren Weber has been promoted to assistant marketing director, while Sarah Engelmann moves up to marketing manager. Michael Barrs will join Hachette Books as marketing director starting May 30. Most recently, he was marketing director for Dey Street Books. Betsy Hulsebosch‘s role as marketing director will now be devoted to the Black Dog & Leventhal list. In promotions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Cheryl Dickemper moves up to director of school supply and reference sales, while Olivia Wilson is […]
Picks: Library Reads, and More
Anthony Horowitz’s Magpie Murders tops the June Library Reads list. The novel is also excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer sampler, available for download now. The rest of the list features: Silver Silence, by Nalini Singh The Waking Land, by Callie Bates Down Among The Sticks And Bones, by Seanan McGuire Do Not Become Alarmed, by Maile Meloy The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn The Child, by Fiona Barton The Little French Bistro, by Nina George The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid Midnight At The Bright Ideas Bookstore, by Matthew Sullivan Target announced its book club selections […]
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At Random House, Michelle Jasmine has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, while Allyson Lord moves up to associate publicist. Tanusri Prasanna has joined Foundry Literary + Media, moving from Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, building her list in children’s books and selectively representing adult literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Former Clarkson Potter executive editor Rica Allannic will join the David Black Agency in September as a literary agent. She will focus on cooking, narrative nonfiction, popular culture, history, memoir, and “helping authors from diverse backgrounds tell stories that are important to them.” Forthcoming Joe Hagan’s biography STICKY FINGERS: The Life and Times of […]
The Full Buzz Books Young Adult Roster
Yesterday we listed the complete roster of 40 great adult authors and excerpts packed into our new free ebook Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter sampler, and today we’re proud to feature all of the young adult authors and excerpts in Buzz Books 2017 Young Adult: Fall/Winter. Since we first launched YA as its own Buzz Books collection at BEA four years ago, these editions have been particularly popular with consumers, and this edition is perfectly suited for sharing with passionate YA fans at BookCon. (Fan reviews of the YA edition are already pouring in online: “Whenever I see a new Buzz Books is available […]
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Ian Buruma has been named editor of The New York Review of Books, succeeding co-founder Robert B. Silvers who died recently. Buruma has been a regular contributor to The New York Review since 1985, in addition to other publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and La Repubblica. He is also the Paul W. Williams Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. Publisher Rea Hederman said in the release, “Ian’s long relationship with both founding editors will preserve the editorial quality and independence for which the Review has been known since its first […]
The Complete Fall/Winter Buzz Books Titles
As we previewed on Tuesday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter features an amazing roster of authors you love as well as excerpts from 16 exciting debut voices. Get a jump on Book Expo by sampling some of the best forthcoming books right now. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, get an EPUB file from us or go to NetGalley. The consumer version is available on all the major ebookstore platforms (the “download” button here links to them all). And don’t forget to share. Our samplers are highly anticipated […]