Will Lippincott has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent, based in Los Angeles. Previously he was an agent and founding partner at Lippincott, Massie & McQuilkin until he left there in late 2016 “to find new paths.” At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Nicole Ellul has been promoted to editor for Simon Pulse; Sarah McCabe becomes associate editor for Simon Pulse; and Tricia Lin moves up to assistant editor for Aladdin. Diego Molano Rodriguez joins the marketing department as marketing coordinator, moving over from the sales department where he was most recently sales assistant. Former Baltimore Sun books editor Michael Pakenham, 85, died May 9 in Hanover, […]
Awards
Paris’s Bring Me Back Tops June Library Reads
Bring Me Back by B.A. Paris leads June’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Allison Pearson’s How Hard Can It Be? and Katy Regan’s Little Big Love, both available to sample now in Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer. There There, by Tommy Orange Us Against You, by Fredrik Backman The Word is Murder, by Anthony Horowitz Jar of Hearts, by Jennifer Hillier Dreams of Falling, by Karen White The Kiss Quotient, by Helen Hoang All We Ever Wanted, by Emily Giffin
People, Etc.
Mary Marotta has been promoted to senior vice president, DK North America, reporting to coo Shaun Hodgkinson. The US senior management team will report to Marotta, with Prima Games publisher Mike Degler continuing to report to Hodgkinson. Amy Cloud has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as senior editor, acquiring middle grade and young adult. She was previously at Aladdin. Pamela Peterson joins Cave Henricks Communications as associate director of publicity on May 21. She was senior publicity manager at Fortier Public Relations. Harassment Files The Washington Post reported another complaint against University of Virginia professor and National Book Award winner John Casey. […]
People, Etc.
Daniel Houghton has left his position as ceo of Lonely Planet, “in order to take on a new CEO role with another digital company.” Travel site Skift reports that it “has also learned that parent company NC2 is said to be pursuing a sale of Lonely Planet.” The publisher said, “The rest of Lonely Planet’s leadership team remains in place and will be continuing with business as usual.” Real estate billionaire Brad Kelley’s NC2 media bought the publisher from the BBC in early 2013 for £51.5 million ($77.3 million), and implemented significant layoffs shortly thereafter. Brant Rumble will join Hachette Books […]
NBF Will Consider Some Authors Living in the US without Citizenship for Awards
As part of a reminder to publishers about their upcoming submissions deadline, the National Book Foundation has also expanded the eligibility for the National Book Awards. Up until now, nominees had to be written by a US citizen. Now, in which executive director Lisa Lucas confirms is a “permanent change” in the rules, “if authors are non-U.S. citizens or have particularly complex immigration issues, there is…a petition process.” Publishers are asked to tell the NBF if the author “has lived in the United States for 10 or more years as of November 30 of the Awards year.” They are also […]
No Nobel Literature Prize In 2018
The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize in Literature, says it will not name a winner in 2018, instead postponing the selection of this year’s laureate to 2019 (when it will also announce next year’s winner simultaneously.) The news follows a sexual abuse and leaking scandal and multiple resignations from committee members, including the resignation of permanent secretary Sara Danius, leaving the 18-member Academy with only 10 active members at the moment. According to their statement, the decision was made, “in view of the currently diminished Academy and the reduced public confidence in the Academy.” They also note that […]