Kathleen Doherty, vp and publisher, Tor Teen & Starscape will retire on June 14, after 34 years with Tor/Forge. Doherty joined the company in 1985 to start the special sales department, eventually launching Tor Classics, Tor Kids, and more. After she leaves, senior editors Susan Chang and Melissa Frain and editor Ali Fisher will report…
Awards
Fiction Pulitzer Goes To Powers
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon, with Richard Powers winning the fiction prize. Washington Post book critic Carlos Lozada won the award for criticism. The rest of the winners: Fiction The Overstory, by Richard Powers (Norton) Finalists The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai (Viking) There There, by Tommy Orange (Knopf) History Frederick Douglass, by…
People, Etc.
Rob Wall has been promoted to art director at Little Bee Books. At Open Road Media, Sarah Mangiola has been promoted to executive editor, content strategy; Carolyn Cox to managing editor content strategy; Catherine Phelan to senior editor; Olivia Mason to audience development manager; Amanda Yee to director of email production; and Amanda Shaffer to senior…
Hoang’s The Bride Test Tops May Library Reads
The Bride Test by Helen Hoang is the top pick for May’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Kim Michele Richardson’s The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and Juliet Grames’ The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna, and Richard Roper’s How Not to Die Alone, all excerpted and available for download in…
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Makkai, Laymon, Thompson-Spires, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced winners in eleven categories on Friday night. Next up is the Pulitzers, to be announced Monday afternoon at 3. The LAT winners include: Fiction Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People (37 Ink) Biography David W. Blight, Frederick…
People, Etc.
Aly Mostel will join Harper One on April 18 as director of marketing, reporting to Laina Adler. She was senior director of communications at Rodale Books, and then worked as an independent marketing consultant. Julia Kent has been promoted to associate director of marketing, now reporting to Mostel. Carolyn Davidson has been promoted to marketing…