Katie Boland has been promoted to events and programming manager, books at Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull. In the UK, Richard Atkinson is joining Penguin Press in the newly created role of publishing director starting September 2 and reporting to managing director Stefan McGrath. He was previously senior commissioning editor at Bloomsbury UK. Phantasmagoria Books and…
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People, Etc.: Halperin and Regan Return, Together
Mary Francis will take over as director of Penn Press at the University of Pennsylvania on September 23. She has been editorial director of University of Michigan Press since 2015 and spent more than 16 years at University of California Press. At Chronicle Books, Rebecca Hunt has been promoted to editorial director, entertainment. Christina Amini…
Woodson’s Red at the Bone Tops September Library Reads
Red at the Bone by Jacqueline Woodson is the top pick for September’s Library Reads. Also on the list is Evie Dunmore’s Bringing Down the Duke, excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019: Romance sampler. The rest of the picks: Don’t You Forget About Me, by Mhairi McFarlane The Dutch House, by…
People, Etc.
At Flatiron, Bryn Clark has been promoted to editor and Sarah Murphy to executive editor. Agnes Ahlander Turner has been promoted to executive vice president at Maria B. Campbell Associates, and Beniamino Ambrosi and Johanna Gustavsson both been named vice president. In the UK, Noel Murphy will join Granta Books and Granta Magazine as commercial…
Krueger’s This Tender Land Tops September Indie Next List
The ABA named This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger as its No. 1 Indie Next pick for September. Also on the list are David Koepp’s Cold Storage, Soren Sveistrup’s The Chestnut Man, Meg Waite Clayton’s The Last Train to London, and Alex North’s The Whisper Man, all excerpted and available for download in our…
People, Etc.
At Penguin Publishing Group, Lauren Monaco has been promoted to senior vice president, group sales director, for Penguin Random House sales. Carrie Swetonic moves up to the newly created position of senior executive director, nonfiction backlist. Caroline Payne has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Dutton. Vijay Seshadri has been named poetry editor of the…