Allison Carney has joined Holt as assistant director of marketing. She was most recently marketing manager at Riverhead, Viking, and Penguin. Maia Sacca-Schaeffer has joined as assistant marketing manager; previously she was digital marketing & sales associate at Farrar, Straus. Kneerim & Williams agent John Butman died unexpectedly on Monday, March 23, from what appears to…
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Laura Mazer has joined Wendy Sherman Associates as a literary agent representing adult nonfiction. Previously, she was executive editor at Seal Press. Bookselling Powell’s Books announced that they have rehired some of the employees they fired earlier in the month due to strong online orders. It was widely misreported that the store has rehired over…
Whiting Award Winners Named
The 2020 Whiting Award winners were announced online Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are: Fiction Andrea Lawlor (Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Knopf) Ling Ma (Severance, Farrar, Straus) Genevieve Sly Crane (Sorority, Scout Press) Nonfiction Jaquira Díaz (Ordinary Girls, Algonquin) Jia Tolentino (Trick Mirror, Random House) Poetry Aria…
People, Etc.: Harper Also Withdraws from Rescheduled Book Expo
In line with Penguin Random House’s position to skip this year’s planned Book Expo and Book Con — even after Reed Exhibitions rescheduled the events for July — HarperCollins has also withdrawn. “In light of the current situation and the unpredictability of the coronavirus in the coming months, we’ve made the difficult decision to withdraw…
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At Hachette Book Group, Dale Wilstermann has been promoted to executive director, Nashville sales; Derek Meehan to senior manager, telephone sales; Laura Fernandez to client sales manager; and Dominique Delmas to publicist at HBG Canada. Jack Dunnington has been promoted to designer at The Experiment. Amy Giuffrida and Jolene Haley have been promoted to agent…
Briefs: Relief for Authors, Awards, and More
The LA Review of Books blog has an interesting, lengthy interview with Dalkey Archive Press founder John O’Brien, who has been in talks with Chad Post at Open Letter Press about a merger or other types of cooperation. “Chad and I have been talking about what happens with Dalkey when I’m gone, and right now…