At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Sarah Creech has been promoted to associate art director for Simon Pulse and Tiara Iandiorio has been promoted to junior designer for Aladdin. Heather Palisi has joined as senior designer for Aladdin and Simon Pulse; she was most recently senior designer at Penguin Random House. Jess LaGreca has joined as art coordinator. Kaitlyn Kennedy has joined Sourcebooks as director of marketing. She was previously publicity manager at Harper Collins. At National Geographic Kids, Becky Baines has been promoted to vice president and editorial director; Kate Hale moves up to executive editor; Sally Abbey becomes director of editorial operations; Ariane Szu-Tu has been promoted to editor; Kathryn Williams moves up to associate editor; Michaela Weglinski become assistant editor; and […]
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Hannah Carmack has joined Sourcebooks as events marketing specialist, while Ashlyn Keil has joined as author marketing associate. Misty Vernon has joined the digital marketing team as UX designer. Kelly Van Sant joins Red Sofa Literary as of May 1. She was previously an agent at D4EO. Alessandra Bastagli has left her position as editorial director of Nation Books. At Holiday House, Raina Putter has joined as a managing editor. She previously worked at the Ingram Content Group as a client relations manager, and held positions at Random House Children’s, Hyperion Children’s, and Harlequin Books. Judy Varon will join as production manager starting May 1. […]
Briefs: Arrest Boosts McNamara Book, Academy Considers Skipping 2018 Nobel for Literature, and More
The surprise arrest of a suspect in the Golden State Killer case on Wednesday caused a surge of interest in the late Michelle McNamara‘s I’ll Be Gone In The Dark, published February 22. Harper reports that they have reprinted 75,000 copies in response, bringing them up to 175,000 copies in print, with digital versions currently ranked No. 1 at Kindle and iBooks, and No. 2 at Audible. Through April 22, Bookscan had recorded sales of approximately 51,000 hardcovers in the eight weeks on sale. Awards The Edgar Awards were presented across multiple categories Thursday night. Winners included: Bluebird, Bluebird, by Attica Locke […]
Awards: Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, Women’s Prize Shortlist, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in eleven categories on Saturday night. The winners include: Fiction Mohsin Hamid, Exit West (Riverhead Books) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Jenny Zhang, Sour Heart (Lenny/Random House) Current Interest Nancy MacLean, Democracy in Chains (Viking) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Benjamin Taylor, The Hue and Cry at Our House (Penguin Books) YA Literature Jason Reynolds’s Long Way Down (Atheneum/Caitlyn Dlouhy Books) The rest of the winners included Laura Dassow Walls’s Henry David Thoreau (University of Chicago Press) for Biography; Leslie Stein’s Present (Drawn and Quarterly) for Graphic Novel/Comics; Dan Egan’s The Death and Life of the Great Lakes (Norton); Joyce Carol Oates’s A Book of American […]
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At Workman Publishing, Page Edmunds has been promoted to executive associate publisher; Danny Cooper becomes editor; Kylie McDonald move up to senior editor, director of cookbooks; Rachael Mt. Pleasant has been promoted to editor; Megan Nicolay becomes executive editor; and Maisie Tivnan moves up to executive editor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a number of recent promotions in their sales department. Colleen Murphy has been promoted to vp, special markets, mass market sales, and product development. Ed Spade, has been appointed director, digital sales, strategy and business development. James Phirman has been promoted to national accounts director, mass market, and Jaclyn Sassa moves up to associate sales representative. McGraw-Hill Education named Dr. […]
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Steven Tran has been promoted to sales associate at Soho Press. Jessica Tribble has been promoted to senior editor at Thomas & Mercer. Rachel Cass, head buyer for trade books at Harvard Book Store, will expand her role to also become buying & inventory manager, taking on responsibility for all merchandise buying for the company. Awards The Man Booker International Prize announced its shortlist, with the winner to be named on May 22: Vernon Subutex 1, by Virginie Despentes, translated by Frank Wynne (MacLehose Press) The White Book, by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith (Portobello Books) The World Goes […]