Goodreads announced the winners of their Choice Awards based on online voting in 20 categories. Here are the category winners, sorted by vote totals: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, by J.K. Rowling (Fantasy: 92,611 votes) The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (Debut Goodreads Author: 74,925 votes) A Court of Wings and Ruin, by Sarah J. Maas (Young Adult Fantasy: 71,165 votes) The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (Young Adult Fiction: 59,571 votes) Sleeping Beauties, by Stephen King and Owen King (Horror: 50,519 votes) Into the Water, by Paula Hawkins (Mystery & Thriller: 48,247 votes) Talking […]
Awards
December Bookseller Picks
Olaf Olafsson’s novel One Station Away is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for December and Fiona Mozley’s Elmet is their featured debut. The rest of the list: Doomsday Machine, by Daniel Ellsberg The Only Girl in the World, by Maude Julien The Girl in the Tower, by Katherine Arden No Time to Spare, by Ursula K. Le Guin The Man Who Made the Movies, by Vanda Krefft Year One, by Nora Roberts, Enchantress of Numbers, by Jennifer Chiaverini The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves, by James Han Mattson Barnes & Noble‘s top fiction list for the month also recommends the Arden, Chiaverini, […]
People, Etc.
Sean Concannon has joined No Starch Press as sales director. Most recently he handled national accounts, special markets, and institutional library sales at Taylor & Francis. Abigail Novak will join Touchstone as a publicist starting December 11. Previously she was assistant publicist at Harper Collins. December features an unusual Pennie’s Pick at Costco: Liane Moriarty “is so good at what she does that I can’t just pick one of her titles; I am suggesting you read everything you can by her.” The chain is featuring The Husband’s Secret, Big Little Lies, and What Alice Forgot. Distribution Quarto will start distributing Russian […]
People, Etc.
Alex Coumbis has joined Laurence King Publishing as a senior publicist based in New York City. Amanda Olson will join Annick Press, as marketing manager starting January 2. Previously sales manager for Harper Canada, she takes over as Brigitte Waisberg retires after 12 years at Annick Press and 37 years in publishing. Claire Caldwell has been hired as associate editor. She was at Harlequin. The just-released movie The Man Who Invented Christmas, based on the book by Les Standiford, is the first theatrical release for a project developed by Mazur / Kaplan, the nine-year-old production company pairing bookseller Mitchell Kaplan and producer […]
People, Awards, Etc.
In personnel news, Pippa White has joined Callisto Media as editor. Previously she was an associate editor at Chronicle Books. Picks Target announced its December, January, and February Book Club Picks. The picks for December are The Impossible Fortress by Jason Rekulak and The Party by Robyn Harding. The picks for January and February are The Lonely Hearts Hotel by Heather O’Neill and The Twelve Lives of Samuel Hawley by Hannah Tinti, respectively. Awards Michael Redhill won the Giller Prize for his novel Bellevue Square (Doubleday Canada). Poets & Writers announced the recipients of their 2018 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Awards: Chimamanda Ngozi […]
Briefs: More Best Books of the Year
Barnes & Noble released its 2017 Best Books of the Year merchandising package. They highlight 217 titles across a number of categories, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, romance, children’s books, and more. Separately, Hudson Booksellers picked Douglas Preston’s The Lost City of the Monkey God as their Book of the Year, along with these top category picks: Best Fiction Manhattan Beach, Jennifer Egan American War, Omar El Akkad History of Wolves, Emily Fridlund Norse Mythology, Neil Gaiman Magpie Murders, Anthony Horowitz The Changeling, Victor LaValle The Ministry of Utmost Happiness, Arundhati Roy Lincoln in the Bardo, George Saunders Swimmer Among the Stars, Kanishk […]