Joerg Pfuhl will join Holtzbrinck on September 1 as chief executive officer of their German trade publishing group, reporting to John Sargent. Previously Pfuhl was ceo of Verlagsgruppe Random House from 2002 to 2011, and more recently was a professor at the University of Applied Management and held board positions with Edel AG and the Franz Cornelsen Foundation. Sargent said in the announcement: “I have known Joerg since his highly successful tenure as president of Random House in New York, and watched with admiration as he transformed Random House in Germany. He has remarkable skills as a publishing executive, combined with […]
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Kathleen Schmidt has joined Rodale as associate publisher, Rodale Books, reporting to Gail Gonzales. She was previously vp, marketing and publicity at Running Press, and will oversee the sales, digital product, managing editorial and Rodale Wellness digital content teams. Gonzales said in the announcement: “I’m delighted to welcome Kathleen to Rodale Books. She’s been hugely successful working on the Running Press lines of business. Her well rounded publishing experience in sales, marketing, and publicity will be a great asset to us as we take our business forward in new and exciting directions and connect with even more readers and consumers of […]
Fall/Winter Preview: Literary & Debut Fiction
In addition to sharing 40 substantial pre-publication excerpts from notable forthcoming titles, our free ebook Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter also opens with our signature preview of hundreds of additional titles to look for in the coming months. With BEA finishing up, we’ve been running selections from those preview lists in Lunch all week long. Today we close out with highlights in debut & literary fiction, with earlier preview lists for commercial fiction and nonfiction. Remember, you can get the adult and YA trade editions of Buzz Books 2016 as direct EPUBs from us, or from NetGalley for any platform. The consumer editions of both […]
People: Katherine Dunn Dies
Katherine Dunn, 70, author of the National Book Award-nominated 1989 novel Geek Love, died Thursday in Portland, OR from complications of lung cancer. Dunn also published two earlier novels as well as an essay collection on boxing, and was at work on her fourth novel upon her death. “Katherine was an enormously talented writer, and an amazing person to be around,” Knopf president and publisher Sonny Mehta said in a statement. “Her interests were always striking to me, and I feel very fortunate to have made her acquaintance upon my arrival in America. Geek Love was one of the first […]
Anne Tyler’s VINEGAR GIRL Tops June Library Reads List
Anne Tyler’s novel Vinegar Girl, the latest in the Hogarth Shakespeare series, is the No. 1 pick for the June Library Reads list. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, Under the Harrow by Flynn Berry, right now Buzz Books 2016: Spring/Summer. The rest of the list features: The Invisible Library, by Genevieve Cogman Grunt, by Mary Roach Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi Missing, Presumed, by Susie Steiner Stiletto, by Daniel O’Malley We Could Be Beautiful, by Swan Huntley Lily and the Octopus, by Steven Rowley Widowmaker, by Paul Doiron
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Orion publishing director Kate Mills will join Harlequin UK later this summer in the newly created role of publishing director of HQ (the rebranded banner for most of Harlequin UK). Mills was at Orion for the past 14 years, and will focus on commercial fiction, including crime, women’s fiction and book club titles. Sarah Mangiola has joined Open Road as senior web editor, books, where she will work on all book-related stories for Open Road’s network of websites, and produce excerpts and book lists. Previously she was an editorial content manager at The Reading Room. Emma Ledbetter has been promoted to […]