Kirstin Berndt joins Portfolio/Sentinel as publicity manager; she was previously at Simon & Schuster. Heather Faulls joins as marketing manager; she was previously at Abel Bainnson Butz, LLP Landscape Architects.
National Book Foundation Names 5 Under 35
The National Book Foundation named their 5 Under 35 fiction writers for 2021. Chair of the NBF board David Steinberger said, “Each year, we take great pleasure in honoring five authors whose debut titles provide a first look at their exceptional talent as fiction writers. Their remarkable books are an achievement, and it’s a privilege to welcome these authors into the National Book Foundation family and to ensure their work reaches an even wider audience.” Caleb Azumah Nelson, Open Water (Black Cat) Selected by Brit Bennett Nathan Harris, The Sweetness of Water (Little, Brown) Selected by Charmaine Craig Lee Lai, […]
New Books Publishing September 21
Richard Powers’ BEWILDERMENT leads this week’s fiction releases alongside booms by Wiley Cash and Rabih Alameddine, while nonfiction includes the latest from Robert Costa and Bob Woodward. Also out today are works by Ruth Ozeki, Jo Watson and Bernhard Schlink, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter sampler. 14 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-september-21 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_September_/219861 15 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-september-21 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_September_/219862 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, […]
Zando Announces Imprints With Lena Waithe, Gillian Flynn
Gillian Flynn and Lena Waithe will become publishers of their own imprints at Zando, the independent publisher led by ceo Molly Stern. Flynn and Waithe are the first “catalyst partners” announced in Zando’s plan to partner with influential figures and institutions to publish and promote books. Catalyst partners have a revenue share, dependent on the success of the books, and each imprint plans to publish four to six books over three years, beginning in Fall 2022 or Spring 2023. Modeled from Stern’s experience with Sarah Jessica Parker’s imprint at Hogarth, Zando editors select submissions that might be appropriate for a […]
Imprints: Astra Publishing Forms Children’s Division
Astra announced the launch of its children’s division, Astra Books for Young Readers, which will house one new imprint–Astra Young Readers–and five existing imprints: Calkins Creek, Hippo Park (Jill Davis’s newly-named imprint), Kane Press, mineditionUS, and Wordsong. Astra coo Ben Schrank said: “Astra Publishing House now has six very special children’s book imprints that cover books for all ages and children’s interests, from board books for babies and toddlers and picture books to nonfiction and history, poetry, middle-grade, and young adult books and so we felt it was time to identify and celebrate them with a new children’s book division: […]
People 9/20
Casten Almqvist will take over as chairman of the board of Bonnier Books in October, succeeding Maria Curman, who will be leaving the board.