Amazon‘s February Best Books of the Month designates Ethan Canin’s splendid new novel A Doubter’s Almanac as its spotlight pick while its featured debut is The Girl in the Red Coat by Kate Hamer. The rest of its top choices are: Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel, by Tom Wainwright All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders My Father, the Pornographer, by Chris Offutt The Black Calhouns, by Gail Lumet Buckley Walking the Nile, by Levison Wood Perfect Days, by Raphael Montes Morning Star, by Pierce Brown The Forgetting Time, by Sharon Guskin Green Island, by […]
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Chelsey Emmelhainz will join Skyhorse on February 8 as an editor acquiring for both the Skyhorse and Arcade imprints. Previously she was an associate editor at William Morrow. Cindy Ratzlaff has joined S&S imprint North Star Way as director of brand development, reporting to Michele Martin. Previously she was president and founder of Brand New Brand You, an author brand development agency, and earlier was vp, brand marketing at Rodale. Martin said in the announcement: “Cindy has a unique set of skills that are a perfect fit for the mission of North Star Way. She understands the shift in how […]
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Stephanie Fretwell-Hill will join Red Fox Literary as an agent. Previously she was an editor at Peachtree Publishers. Former Viking editor Maggie Riggs has launched The Riggs Agency, specializing in literary fiction, in addition to select non-fiction works including narrative non-fiction, essays, memoir, and food writing. Chair of Penguin Random House UK Gail Rebuck has joined the board of the Guardian. Former bookseller and founder of the Hue-Man Bookstores Clara Villarosa is starting a boutique publishing company, Villarosa Media, with her daughters Linda (former executive editor of Essence Magazine) and Alicia (a writer and blogger). They will publish books “primarily by and about African Americans and […]
Buzz Books Spring/Summer Preview: Nonfiction
Our final excerpt from Sarah Weinman’s extensive preview of forthcoming spring and summer titles focuses on nonfiction. You can start reading many of the highlighted titles — noted with an asterisk — right now in Buzz Books 2016: Spring/Summer. Collect the trade editions from NetGalley or Edelweiss, or get the consumer editions from your ebookstore of choice. (And please note: because we prepare this preview many months in advance, titles, content, and publication dates are all subject to change.) NONFICTION Start your conversations in the spring and summer with economist Thomas Piketty’s new book; a treatise on the Internet by […]
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At Crown, Julian Pavia has been promoted to executive editor. Porter Anderson is taking over as editor of Publishing Perspectives from Ed Nawotka, who has run the publication since it was founded in 2009. Anderson was associate editor at FutureBooks, where he is replaced by Molly Flatt. In Germany, Piper publisher Michael Hartges will leave his position at the end of the month after 7 years there, following a disagreement with management over editorial direction. At Winter Institute in Denver today, retiring Tattered Cover owner Joyce Meskis was honored with a proclamation from Colorado governor John Hickenlooper, who appeared before the booksellers […]
Supreme Court Will Consider Apple’s Appeal on February 19
When the Supreme Court next convenes for conference on February 19, one of the cases it will consider is Apple’s petition to have the high court hear its appeal of the guilty verdict in the ebook antitrust case. Apple had responded one more time, on January 15, to the Department of Justice’s end of year opposition to their appeal.