The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Saturday night. They include: Fiction Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (Simon & Schuster) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House Press) Current Interest Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (Scribner) Poetry Claudia Rankine, Citizen (Graywolf) Other winners include Adam Tooze (History); Elizabeth Kolbert (Science & Technology); Tom Bouman (Mystery/Thriller); Candice Fleming (Young Adult); Andrew Roberts (Biography); and Jaime Hernandez (Graphic Novel). As previously announced, T.C. Boyle won the Robert Kirsch Award and Levar Burton was […]
Authors
KU for March: New High for the Pool But Almost A New Low Per Book
Earlier this week Amazon made their monthly announcement of how much money they would retroactively chose to share with self-published authors whose work was read via the Kindle Unlimited subscription program. The total pool allocated for March reached a new high, of $9.3 million. Borrows were robust as well, at approximately 6.956 million — which left authors with a payment of $1.337 per read. That’s the second-lowest payment per read since the initiative launched, just above the $1.33 per read paid for October 2014.
Slaughter Moves to Harper In Global Deal, As Harper Adds Four More International Lines
HarperCollins officially announced from London on Tuesday morning a multi-territory four-book deal with bestselling author Karin Slaughter. The relationship begins with PRETTY GIRLS, now set for US publication in September, which Harper will publish in all countries in which it operates on their newly-expanded international platform — except for the UK, Australia, New Zealand and Holland. “Subsequent books” in the deal “will include additional territories,” the announcement notes, meaning Harper will publish in the UK as well later in the multi-book deal. (The Bookseller says Harper will start with book three in the UK.) Until very recently PRETTY GIRLS was listed for July publication […]
People, Etc.: Restivo-Alessi Adds International Duties at HC; Ivan Doig Dies; and More
At HarperCollins, chief digital officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi is taking on the additional responsibilities of evp, International, overseeing the growing foreign language program built on top of some of infrastructure acquired as part of Harlequin. CEO Brian Murray writes: “In this new role, Chantal will oversee the HarperCollins foreign language program to ensure we’re hitting all the targets necessary for growth and develop new processes and procedures so we can achieve the ambitious plans laid out for our foreign language publishing program while setting up structures that support our authors in new ways.” She will work in partnership with Harlequin chief operating officer International Steve Miles, who […]
People, Etc.
Mary Faria will join Perseus on April 20 in the newly created role of vp, mass merch sales, reporting to Sabrina McCarthy. Previously she was director of sales at becker!&mayer. Rick Monteith, Peter D’Erasmo, Christina Douglas, and Cherish Barrett will now report to Faria. At Random House Children’s Publishing, Stephanie O’Cain has been promoted to senior marketing manager; Sarah Wharton moves up to assistant marketing manager, and Alissa Nigro has been promoted to marketing coordinator. In addition, Hannah Black joins as assistant marketing manager from Diversion Books, where she was marketing coordinator. Sarah Bush has been promoted to audio rights […]
Alexander Tops May Indie Next List
Poet Elizabeth Alexander‘s memoir THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for May. The rest of the list features the following (including 5 books, asterisked, you can start reading right now in our free Buzz Books 2015 ebook): Pieces of My Mother, by Melissa Cistaro* The Given World, by Marian Palaia The World Is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse, by Joni Tevis The Daylight Marriage, by Heidi Pitlor Whispering Shadows, by Jan-Philipp Sendker The Book of Aron, by Jim Shepard Church of Marvels, by Leslie Parry* Girl at War, by Sara […]