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 […]
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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 […]
People, Etc.
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 […]
Legrand’s Furyborn Tops May’s Library Reads
Claire Legrand’s novel Furyborn tops May’s Library Reads list. You can read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2018 Young Adult Spring/Summer sampler. Also on the list are Araminta Hall’s Our Kind of Cruelty, Aimee Molloy’s The Perfect Mother, and Sarah Winman’s Tin Man, all of which are also available to sample now in Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer. The rest of the picks: The Other Lady Vanishes, by Amanda Quick The Death of Mrs. Westaway, by Ruth Ware Love and Ruin, by Paula McLain Paper Ghosts, by Julia Heaberlin The Favorite Sister, by Jessica Knoll The Ensemble, by Aja Gabel
Briefs: Prince’s Memoir, Comey’s Launch, and More
Forthcoming In a podcast with Variety, Esther Newberg at ICM confirmed that Prince‘s memoir, sold to Chris Jackson at One World shortly before the performer’s death in 2016, will indeed be published. She suggests the title will be ready soon, “hopefully at next Christmas” (meaning 2019, apparently). The publisher tells us that a publication date has not been confirmed yet. Written by Dan Piepenbring (starting with the 50 pages of manuscript that Prince had written before his death), Newberg calls it “a wonderful testament to a great songwriter and performer.” (Update: the book is staying with Spiegel & Grau rather […]