The ABA announced the December Indie Next List, with The Light Pirate by Lily Brooks-Dalton in the top spot.
People 11/2
Ben Rosenthal has been promoted to editorial director for the as-yet-unnamed imprint that will replace Katherine Tegen Books, reporting to vp/director, publishing Erica Sussman. Mabel Hsu has been promoted to executive editor, reporting to Rosenthal.
2022 Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grants
The Whiting Foundation announced the nine recipients of the $40,000 Creative Nonfiction Grant for books-in-progress.
New Books Publishing November 1
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Janet Evanovich, N. K. Jemisin, and Matthew Quick, while nonfiction includes memoirs by Bono and Matthew Perry plus new writing from Bob Dylan and NBCC winner Ted Conover. In YA, new books by Marissa Meyer, Tracy Deonn, and the authors of Blackout are out this month. Also out this week is Someday, Maybe by Onyi Nwabineli (the new GMA Reads for the month), and next week sees the publication of Nubia: The Awakening by Omar Epps and Clarence A. Haynes, both excerpted in our Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter anthology. 26 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-november-1 […]
HBG Employees Oppose Return-to-Office Plan; Pietsch Responds
On Friday evening October 28, a group of more than 200 HBG employees—from entry level to directors—sent a letter to ceo Michael Pietsch and members of the Office Reopening Taskforce, opposing the company’s return-to-office mandate, slated to begin November 1. (The company has 1600 employees total.) The hybrid plan requires employees to work from the office two specific days per week. Hachette has been in a pilot period for six months, in which employees could decide to return to the office or defer. “During these six months, those who wished to be in office went in, collaborated in person and […]
Obituary: John Jay Osborn, Jr., Lucianne Goldberg
The Paper Chase author John Jay Osborn, Jr., 77, died on October 19 of squamous cell cancer. The book was adapted into a film starring John Houseman, who won an Academy Award, and a TV show. Osborn wrote four other novels, as well as film and TV scripts, and taught in law schools. Literary agent Lucianne Goldberg died on October 26 at age 87. Goldberg was an author and ghost writer, but became best-known for suggesting that Linda Tripp record her conversations with Monica Lewinsky. As an agent, Goldberg represented celebrity biographer Kitty Kelley and detective in the O.J. Simpson case […]