Annette Pollert-Morgan has been promoted to editorial director of Sourcebooks Fire. Dave Horvath, senior marketing manager for Rowman & Littlefield, is retiring on March 30 after 41 years in publishing. Chris Artis has joined Shreve Williams Public Relations as affiliated publicist. Previously he was head of editorial communications at Reuters. Correcting yesterday’s item, the new vice president of sales and marketing at Rowman & Littlefield is Karen Allman. Meredith Vieira will host PBS’s The Great American Read series, which launches May 22. Audio Macmillan Audio will start publishing the audiobooks of Nora Roberts and her pseudonym J. D. Robb in the winter of 2019. St. Martin’s has […]
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Seth Russo, vice president and director of international sales at Simon & Schuster will retire on April 20, after 35 years in international sales. Executive director, global digital and international sales Colin Shields will take on the direct, day-to-day responsibility for the international sales channel. Newly reporting to him will be Rema Badwan and Danielle Cumbo, and Christina “Chrissy” Festa will add audio sales to her portfolio as director, audio, digital and online sales. The New York Times Book Review is adding a new monthly column about graphic novels and comics. The columnists will be Hillary Chute, author of Why Comics? From […]
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Marie-Claire Wastiaux will retire as secretary general and chief financial officer of Hachette Livre on July 1. She will be succeeded by Fabrice Bakhouche, who has been promoted to deputy secretary general and deputy chief financial officer. Hachette Livre ceo Arnaud Nourry said in the announcement: “Marie-Claire Wastiaux’s exactness, skill and enthusiasm have contributed to the growth of our company since 2003. I have hugely appreciated her expertise, work output and dedication and will miss her sorely.” Diana Calice will retire as IPG’s managing director, Spanish distribution program after more than 10 years. Spanish sales manager Kelsey Wayne will succeed […]
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Sourcebooks has appointed Moxie & Company as their brand licensing agency. More changes to UK-based website Pottermore have resulted in some layoffs. BuzzFeed had suggested there were “significant” reductions, citing only a “well-placed source.” A company spokesperson told the site, “As a result of a reorganization at Pottermore, there have been a small number of job losses. These reflect the evolution of the business and are being handled as sensitively as possible.” Pottermore tells the Bookseller the job cuts are related to an “exciting new strategy” they will unveil soon. According to their annual filings with Companies House, the workforce […]
Whiting Award Winners
The Whiting Awards were announced in a ceremony Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are: Fiction Patty Yumi Cottrell (Sorry to Disrupt the Peace, McSweeney’s) Brontez Purnell (Since I Laid My Burden Down, Amethyst Editions) Weike Wang (Chemistry, Knopf) Nonfiction Esmé Weijun Wang (The Collected Schizophrenias, forthcoming from Graywolf Press) Anne Boyer (Garments Against Women, Ahsahta Press) Poetry Rickey Laurentiis (Boy with Thorn, University of Pittsburgh Press) Tommy Pico (Nature Poem, Tin House Books) Playwrights Nathan Alan Davis (Nat Turner in Jerusalem; Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea) Hansol Jung (Among the Dead, Cardboard Piano) Antoinette Nwandu (Pass Over, Breach)
Silber and FitzGerald Lead NBCC Winners
On Thursday night, the National Book Critics Circle presented their 2017 book awards to: Fiction Improvement, by Joan Silber (Counterpoint) General Nonfiction The Evangelicals, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster) Autobiography Nine Continents, by Xiaolu Guo (Grove) Biography Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books) Criticism You Play The Girl, by Carina Chocano (Mariner) Poetry Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf)