Global digital director for Penguin Molly Barton will leave the company to accept a faculty position at Wesleyan University and to consult for NYC- and Silicon Valley-based publishing-related start-ups. Barton also founded and led Book Country at Penguin, and day-to-day operations and activities will continue to be managed by Brandi Larsen. At St. Martin’s Press, April Osborn and Elizabeth Poteet have been promoted to assistant editor, while Kelly Quinn moves up to assistant editor at Tor. Koehler Books and Linden Publishing will be distributed by Ingram Publisher Services. Poets & Writers’ newest in-depth career interview with a trade publishing person […]
Awards: DiCamillo Wins Newbery, Floca Takes Caldecott
The ALA presented their many Youth Media Awards this morning on the closing day of their winter meeting in Philadelphia. The Newbery medal went to Kate DiCamillo for FLORA AND ULYSSES (Candlewick), and the Caldecott went to Brian Floca for LOCOMOTIVE (S&S Children’s), which he wrote and illustrated. DiCamillo won the Newbery previously for her 2003 novel, THE TALE OF DESPEREAUX (and her BECAUSE OF WINN-DIXIE was a Newbery Honor Book). Among other honorees, Marcus Sedgwick won the Michael L. Printz Award for MIDWINTER BLOOD (Roaring Brook Press) and Markus Zusak won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for “significant and lasting contribution […]
Winter Institute Buzz Books and Beyond: Commercial Fiction, Young Adult, and Children’s
For the second year in a row we are helping to amplify the ABA’s Winter Institute with a new free ebook Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer, featuring 10 authors appearing at WI9 and another 30 anticipated “discovery” titles from the season ahead. Today we present the third and final modified portion of Sarah Weinman’s broader preview of notable titles coming over the next 6 months that opens Buzz Books. (Download the trade edition — with detailed marketing, rights and publicity information, and click-throughs after each excerpt if you’re interested in the full galley — from this page, in an an EPUB or Kindle file or from NetGalley […]
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Graham Bell will move up to executive director of EDItEUR as of April 1, after Mark Bide retires. Bell has been chief data architect of EDItEUR since joining the organization in 2010, after working as head of publishing systems at Harper UK. In the Crown production department, Luisa Francavilla has been promoted to associate production director; Patricia Shaw moves up to senior production editor/digital copy chief; and Shira Gluck, Virginia Rhoda, and Heather Williamson have all been promoted to production associate. At Putnam and Amy Einhorn Books, Kelly Welsh Rudolph has been promoted to assistant director of publicity. Christopher Rhodes […]
Winter Institute Buzz Books and Beyond: Nonfiction To Watch
For the second year in a row we are helping to amplify the ABA’s Winter Institute with a new free ebook Buzz Books 2014: Spring/Summer, featuring 10 authors appearing at WI9 and another 30 anticipated “discovery” titles from the season ahead. (Download the trade edition — with detailed marketing, rights and publicity information, and click-throughs after each excerpt if you’re interested in the full galley — from this page, in an an EPUB or Kindle file or from NetGalley for any reader. Or share the regular edition, which readers everywhere have come to rely on for sampling the season ahead […]
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Andrea Barzvi recently left ICM Partners after 13 years to start her own agency, Empire literary, where she will continue to represent commercial non-fiction as well as women’s fiction. At Sourcebooks, Nicole Villeneuve has been promoted to assistant publicity manager. Poet Billy Collins, 72, has sold his papers to the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, The finalists have been named for the Costa Short Story Award. In bookstore news, Main Street Books in St. Charles, MO — which was set to close on January 31 as the owners retire — is negotiating with a potential buyer. (A separate […]