Dan Lubart will leave his position as svp strategy and publishing operations at Hachette Book Group at the end of the year, to focus full-time on his data strategy and modeling company Iobyte Solutions. Jeanette Shaw has left Tarcher Perigee, where she was an editor for the past 12 years, to start her own freelance editorial service firm, JS Editorial. Krista Vitola will join Simon & Schuster Children’s as senior editor. Previously she was an editor at Delacorte. At Knopf Books for Young Readers, Karen Greenberg has been promoted to assistant editor. Quressa Robinson has joined D4EO Literary Agency as associate […]
Briefs: Kirkus Prize Winners; NYTBR Best Illustrated Children’s Books; and More
Awards The winners of the Kirkus Prize were announced Thursday night at a ceremony in Austin, TX. C.E. Morgan’s The Sport of Kings (FSG) prevailed in fiction, with Susan Faludi’s memoir In the Darkroom (Metropolitan) taking the nonfiction category. Finally, As Brave As You by Jason Reynolds won in Young Readers’ Literature. Separately, Poets & Writers announced today that their 2017 Writers for Writers Awards will be given to Francisco Goldman, Ann Patchett, and Richard Shelton. The Editor’s Award is going to Fiona McCrae and Jeff Shotts at Graywolf Press. Yasuko Thanh‘s Mysterious Fragrance of the Yellow Mountains won the Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. […]
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Peter Joseph will join Harlequin on November 14 as editorial director, overseeing the launch and build of a new, yet-to-be-named imprint. (In March 2017 they named it Hanover Square Press, set to launch in 2018.) He spent the past twelve years at Thomas Dunne Books, most recently as executive editor. Gaby Salpeter has joined Macmillan Children’s as marketing coordinator. previously, she was web manager and events coordinator at Books of Wonder. With employee buyouts and layoffs hitting the Wall Street Journal staff, books reporter Jennifer Maloney posted on Twitter, “After five amazing years at WSJ, I’m looking for something new.” […]
Springsteen Helps S&S To a Strong Third Quarter
Simon & Schuster’s parent company CBS reported third quarter sales after the close of the market on Thursday, with book publishing revenues rising 11 percent to $226 million from $203 million a year ago, good enough to turn sales positive for the year-to-date. Operating income also grew modestly, by $1 million, up to $44 million, “as the increase in revenues was largely offset by higher production and selling costs.” As in the prior quarter, digital revenues comprised 23 percent of sales. Both print and digital sales grew and key titles for the quarter included what CBS ceo Les Moonves called “the […]
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Penguin Random House Audio announced a number of recent promotions. Catherine Bucaria has been promoted to senior acquisitions editor, while Emily Parliman moves up to editor, Listening Library. Megan Mills is promoted to assistant acquisitions editor, while Renee Watson moves up to coordinator, digital operations. At Little, Brown, Zea Moscone is promoted to publicity manager, handling all cookbooks and lifestyle title. She will work remotely from San Francisco. Tony Forde has joined Viking and Penguin as senior publicist. He was most recently a publicist at PublicAffairs/Nation Books. In addition, Alison Klooster also joins as senior publicist. She was most recently […]
Chabon’s Moonglow Tops Indie Next List for December
Michael Chabon’s new novel Moonglow is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for December. The rest of the list features: Swing Time, by Zadie Smith The Fate of the Tearling, by Erika Johansen To Capture What We Cannot Keep, by Beatrice Colin The Elephants in My Backyard, by Rajiv Surendra The Glass Universe, by Dava Sobel Scrappy Little Nobody, by Anna Kendrick Moranifesto, by Caitlin Moran Victoria: The Queen, by Julia Baird Writing to Save a Life: The Louis Till File, by John Edgar Wideman Absolutely on Music: Conversations, by Haruki Murakami and Seiji Ozawa Who Watcheth, by Helene […]