Dan Vidra has joined HarperCollins as associate director on the international sales team, managing US division sales in the open market. He replaces Alison Smith, who took over closed market sales. Vidra had a long career in international book sales, and worked for txtr and its various successor companies for the past six years. Julia Kardon has joined Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency as an agent, where she will focus on literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. She was previously an agent at Mary Evans. William LoTurco has launched LoTurco Literary, a literary agency focused on nonfiction. He was previously an agent at Aevitas Creative […]
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At JKS Communications, Sara Wigal has been promoted to senior manager; Angelle Barbazon move ups to lead publicist; and Max Lopez become new author ambassador. Hannah Robertson joins as junior publicist. Leila Siddiqui has been promoted to assistant marketing manager at Dutton. As part of the Queen’s annual birthday honors, knighthoods were given to Nobel winner Kazuo Ishiguro and historian Simon Schama, while Mary Beard was awarded a damehood “for services to the study of classical civilisations.” Anne Tyler’s new novel Clock Dance has been chosen as Barnes & Noble’s second selection for its Book Club.
Moshfegh’s My Year Of Rest And Relaxation Tops July Indie Next List
The ABA named Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation as its No. 1 pick for July. Also on the list are Beatriz Williams’ The Summer Wives, James A. McLaughlin’s Bearskin, and Ann Mah’s The Lost Vintage, and you can read an excerpt of all four titles in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler, available for download now. The rest of the list: Spinning Silver, by Naomi Novik The Great Believers, by Rebecca Makkai Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler The Cabin at the End of the World, by Paul Tremblay The Secrets Between Us, by Thrity Umrigar Bring Me Back, by […]
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Brendan Deneen is leaving Macmillan to join “multi-platform production company” Assemble Media as president of literary and IP development, still working on both publishing and film/TV: “I look forward to working with authors, agents and publishers on book ideas, and tracking the publishing world for material that would make fantastic, commercial films and television shows, while also developing original IP directly for the screen.” At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Milena Giunco has joined as publicist. She was most recently publicity coordinator at Scholastic. Ingrid Beck has joined the Crown Publishing Group as senior editor, WaterBrook and Multnomah. Previously she was acquisitions editor for […]
Briefs: Carla Hayden to Interview Michelle Obama at ALA; Award Winners; and Apple Books Changes
Appearances When Michelle Obama addresses the opening general session of the 2018 ALA Annual Conference on June 22, she will be joined on stage by Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden, who “will moderate a conversation.” Awards The Jewish Book Council’s $100,000 Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature has gone to Ilana Kurshan’s memoir If All the Seas Were Ink. The Lambda Literary Award announced winners in 23 categories at an awards ceremony Monday night. Roxane Gay and Edmund White were awarded Lambda’s Trustee and Visionary Awards, respectively. Apple Updates As Bloomberg reported back in January, Apple’s forthcoming iOS 12 […]
Oprah Pick, New Proposals and Untitled
Oprah Winfrey‘s latest selection for her book club (specially promoted through Amazon as usual) is Anthony Ray Hinton‘s The Sun Does Shine: How I Found Life and Freedom on Death Row. A rare nonfiction pick, she says of the book: “This story reads like an epic novel and it is all true. You will, throughout the book, try to imagine yourself — falsely accused, and in a 5-by-7 cell for 30 years. He is a remarkable storyteller and when you read it you’ll be swept away.” Book proposals making news including one still in formation from recently-departed national security adviser General […]