The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in eleven categories on Saturday night. The winners include: Fiction Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (Riverhead Books) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart (Lenny/Random House) Current Interest Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains (Viking) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Benjamin Taylor, The Hue and Cry at Our House (Penguin…
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At Workman Publishing, Page Edmunds has been promoted to executive associate publisher; Danny Cooper becomes editor; Kylie McDonald move up to senior editor, director of cookbooks; Rachael Mt. Pleasant has been promoted to editor; Megan Nicolay becomes executive editor; and Maisie Tivnan moves up to executive editor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a number of recent promotions in their sales department. Colleen Murphy has been promoted to…
‘Boy Who Came Back From Heaven’ Author Sues Tyndale
Alex Malarkey, the quadriplegic boy whose story comprised the 2010 bestseller The Boy Who Came Back From Heaven, which was later determined to be a fabrication concocted by his father, has sued Tyndale House for defamation, appropriation of his likeness, and exploitation of a person with a disability, all stemming from the core complaint that…
Briefs: Prince’s Memoir, Comey’s Launch, and More
Forthcoming In a podcast with Variety, Esther Newberg at ICM confirmed that Prince‘s memoir, sold to Chris Jackson at One World shortly before the performer’s death in 2016, will indeed be published. She suggests the title will be ready soon, “hopefully at next Christmas” (meaning 2019, apparently). The publisher tells us that a publication date…
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Jaime Levine will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on April 30 as senior editor focusing on acquiring psychological suspense, thrillers, and mysteries. Theresa Collier has been promoted to senior manager, publicity and marketing at Artisan Books. At Sourcebooks, Jillian Rahn has been promoted to associate art director. The Guggenheim Fellows were named for 2018, including fiction writers Rachel…
Clinton Book Tour Details Announced
Dates and locations have been announced for Bill Clinton and James Patterson’s book tour for The President is Missing. The first event will take place at Book Con on Sunday, June 3, where Clinton and Patterson will have a book signing and discuss the novel on a main stage panel. Eighteen appearances are listed so far, with…