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 […]
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Eamon Dolan will join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp says, “Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful in the […]
Booker Shortlist Includes Two Graywolf Titles
Awards season starts to take shape with the release of the Booker Prize shortlist (with the winner to be named the week following the Frankfurt Book Fair on October 16). Esi Edugyan from Canada’s Washington Black (Knopf) is the only title in contention for more than one major fiction award this year, having just made the Giller longlist. Knopf said they are going back to press for a third printing of the book. Neither of the two nominated American authors — Rachel Kushner‘s The Mars Room (Scribner) and Richard Powers‘ The Overstory (Norton) — are on the National Book Awards longlist. But Graywolf Press is the forthcoming US publisher […]