Brenda Chin will join Entangled as editorial director of the Brazen and Scorched imprints. Previously she was editorial director at Harlequin Blaze. Amazon global v-p and general manager of Kindle China Zhang Wenyi has been appointed president of Amazon China, while continuing to lead the country’s Kindle business. Milkweed Editions will open a new bookstore, Milkweed Books, in downtown Minneapolis in late June or early July. According to MPR, Milkweed publisher and ceo Daniel Slager estimates “about a quarter of the store’s stock will be Milkweed books, and the rest will come from a variety of publishers across the country, […]
Fall/Winter Preview: Commercial 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 now underway, we’ll be running selections from those preview lists in Lunch this week. Yesterday we ran our nonfiction preview; today we present highlights in commercial fiction, with debut & literary fiction to follow later in the week. 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 […]
Fall/Winter Preview: Nonfiction
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 set to open in Chicago tomorrow, we’ll be running selections from those preview lists in Lunch this week: Today we present highlights in nonfiction, with commercial fiction and debut & literary fiction to follow later in the week. 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 […]
People, Etc.
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Helen Atsma has been promoted to editorial director, fiction, while Naomi Gibbs moves up to editor. Rebecca Lang has joined St. Martin’s as publicity manager. She was previously a publicist at Viking Penguin. In addition, Courtney Reed has been promoted to marketing manager. Tara Carberry has joined hoopla digital in the newly created position of content strategist. Most recently she was an associate literary agent at Trident Media Group. Rebecca Liao and Cristóbal Pera have joined Words Without Borders’ board of directors. Distribution IPG has launched a new distribution program, Amphora, focused on servicing large content holders. […]
McDonald Named Publisher of New FSG Imprint, and More
Sean McDonald has been named publisher of a newly created imprint at Farrar, Straus, MCD/FSG. The imprint’s goal, according to the announcement, is to “create a space to publish work and experiment with publishing styles, forms, and genres that are at the edges of FSG’s traditions and/or are new enough to have no tradition.” McDonald will be joined at MCD/FSG by former Amazon Publishing editor-in-chief and publisher Daphne Durham, named executive editor, working from Seattle. McDonald says in the announcement, “When Jonathan [Galassi] suggested this—to create what he called a kind of lab in which we could find new ways […]
People
Brendan Vaughan will join Ballantine Bantam Dell on May 9 as executive editor, reporting to Jennifer Hershey. Vaughan was most recently executive editor at GQ and before then, articles editor at Esquire. In the UK, Nicholas Brealey has left Nicholas Brealey Publishing, was which was bought last year by Hachette UK. William Rosen, 61, died April 28 of gastrointestinal stromal cancer. He spent nearly 25 years as an editor and publisher at Macmillan, Simon & Schuster and the Free Press, and was the author of several works of narrative nonfiction. Viking has his book about the discovery and dissemination of antibiotics scheduled […]