Amazon‘s October Spotlight Pick is Leif Enger’s Virgil Wander and the featured debut is A Winter’s Promise by Christelle Dabos. Enger’s book is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter edition and available for download now, along with other Amazon pick, Unsheltered by Barbara Kingsolver. The rest of the list: The Witch Elm, by Tana French A Map of Days, by Ransom Riggs Frederick Douglass, by David. W. Blight LikeWar, by P.W. Singer and Emerson T. Brooking Gone So Long, by Andre Dubus III There Will Be No Miracles Here, by Casey Gerald A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult Waiting […]
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Lili Feinberg has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as associate publicist. She was most recently publicity assistant at Tor/Forge. Rebecca Strobel has been promoted to assistant editor at Touchstone. There’s another change in the executive ranks at CBS: longtime head of corporate communications Gil Schwartz (aka author Stanley Bing) will retire on November 1 after more than 20 years with the company. He wrote in a memo: “As fans of arcane SEC filings have noted, I had the option of stepping away early this past summer, but given the exigencies of corporate life at that juncture, I elected to stay in place […]
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Juliana Kiyan has been promoted to associate publicity director at the Penguin Press. Lara Blackman has joined Audible Originals as an associate editor. She was most recently an assistant editor at Touchstone. Robbie Egan will take over as ceo of the Australian Booksellers Association in early December. Liz Hohenadel‘s colleagues at Riverhead have set up a GoFundMe campaign for her son Owen’s education. Hohenadel, senior publicity manager for Riverhead, died on Monday at age 34. Awards Library and information association CILIP, the organization responsible for the UK’s Carnegie and Kate Greenaway Medals, is making changes to the prize after an independent diversity […]
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Riverhead senior publicity manager Elizabeth Hohenadel, 34, passed away on Monday, “from a medical condition that arose suddenly a few months ago.” She worked at Riverhead since 2007, starting there as a publicity assistant. Penguin Publishing Group president Allison Dobson writes, “She was beloved for her gregarious enthusiasm, her keen but kind sense of humor, and a commitment to her authors that did not diminish after publication…. She excelled in bringing smart commercial fiction to a wide readership, with her relentless messaging, her personal appeals, and that well known humor.” She is survived by her husband Brian and her son Owen. Sierra […]
Awards: Kirkus Prize Finalists, Whiting Nonfiction Grant Winners
The Kirkus Prize announced its finalists in fiction, nonfiction, and children’s literature, with the winners to be announced on October 25. A modest number of nominees overlap with the National Book Awards longlists, including Lauren Groff and Nafissa Thompson-Spires in fiction; Rebecca Solnit and Sarah Smarsh in nonfiction; and Elizabeth Acevedo in young people’s literature. The complete list: Fiction Halsey Street, by Naima Coster Florida, by Lauren Groff Mourning, by Eduardo Halfon Severance, by Ling Ma Heads of the Colored People, by Nafissa Thompson-Spires Tell the Machine Goodnight, by Katie Williams Nonfiction American Prison, by Shane Bauer Heavy, by Kiese Laymon […]
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Dana Spector has joined CAA as agent in the books department, based in Los Angeles. She was previously in the media rights department at Paradigm. Berrett-Koehler founder Steve Piersanti, who serves as both president/CEO and an editor, announced that he will relinquish his executive positions in mid-2019. He will continue as a full-time acquiring editor, though, “which is the role I have always believed I was best at performing and which has given me the greatest satisfaction.” Caroline A. Hayes has joined Norton as metadata operations manager. Awards The National Book Awards announced its 5 Under 35 honorees, including Nana Kwame […]