The International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) announced their annual cookbook awards across 20 categories on Sunday (plus five books that were named “culinary classics”) — and then rescinded two awards, including “cookbook of the year,” given to Six Seasons: A New Way With Vegetables, by Joshua McFadden with Martha Holmberg. Holmberg is ceo of the IACP, and apparently no one thought it was unseemly that she was participating until her book won top honors, which provoked a quick backlash. A statement from board chair Adam Salomone said in part: “We’re extremely concerned by what we see now as an appearance of impropriety, […]
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Bookselling Seattle’s Elliott Bay Book Company will open a location at Sea-Tac Airport in 2019 in association with the Hudson Group. Located on Concourse C, the store will feature Northwest authors, as well as staff picks, bestsellers, and new releases. Children’s bookstore The Brain Lair will open in South Bend Indiana in November. Owner Kathy Burnette plans to “look to smaller publishers with diverse lists, like Lee & Low Books and Akashic Books, as well as larger publishers that have diversity-specific imprints.” In addition to titles for young people, the store will carry select adult titles and some gifts. Awards The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism […]
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At Andrews McMeel, Patty Rice has been promoted to executive editor; Julie Phillips to executive design director; Ben Accardi to senior editor for calendars; and Melissa Rhodes to associate editor. Lucas Wetzel moves over to the book group as editor, from AMU’s syndication division. Ashleigh Gardner has been promoted to deputy general manager for Wattpad Studios, publishing. Carrie Pestritto has joined Laura Dail Literary Agency as an agent. Previously she was an agent at Prospect Agency. At Portfolio/Sentinel, Merry Sun has been promoted to associate editor, Vivian Roberson has been promoted to assistant editor, and Katherine Valentino has been promoted to […]
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At Chronicle, Mirabelle Korn has been promoted to associate editor, art. Angela Craft has been promoted to marketing director for Avon and Harper Voyager. The Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association has hired board member (and treasurer) Larry Law as their executive director, starting March 1. He was director of e-commerce & marketing at Anderson’s Bookshops in Naperville, IL. Forthcoming Reportedly, James Comey‘s first television interview ahead of the April 17 publication of A HIGHER LOYALTY will be with George Stephanopoulos at ABC. Awards The Booker Prize Foundation announced a special Golden Man Booker Prize, a one time award given only this year […]
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The University of New Mexico Press will become a part of the College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences starting March 1, as part of a university reorganization. The $7 million debt owed by UNM Press to the university will be disposed of, though the university has not yet determined how. Interim provost and executive vice president for academic affairs, Richard Wood said, “UNM Press was at risk of closure,” adding of the debt, “we’ll have to absorb it into the budget somehow.” The press doesn’t plan any editorial changes, but distribution will be outsourced to a third party and the south campus […]
Newbery to Kelly, Caldecott to Cordell, and More
The American Library Association presented their annual book awards at their mid-winter meeting in Denver. On Monday morning, at the Youth Media Awards, the Newbery medal went to Erin Entrada Kelly for Hello, Universe (Greenwillow Books) and the Caldecott Medal to Matthew Cordell for Wolf in the Snow (Feiwel & Friends). Nina Lacour won the Michael L. Printz Award for We Are Okay (Dutton Children’s), and author Angela Johnson won the Margaret A. Edwards Award for “significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.” The William C. Morris YA Debut award went to The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas (Balzer + Bray), which also won the Odyssey […]