Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz tops the June Indie Next list — yet another novel that you can start reading now through an excerpt in our Buzz Books Spring/Summer 2017. Other Buzz Books on the June list include Nora Roberts’ Come Sundown; Courtney Maum’s Touch; and Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich’s The Fact of a Body. The rest of the Indie Next list features: Do Not Become Alarmed, by Maile Meloy The Long Haul, by Finn Murphy The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, by Taylor Jenkins Reid Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor The Essex Serpent, by Sarah Perry Dragon Teeth, by Michael Crichton So Much Blue, by Percival Everett Stephen Florida, by Gabe […]
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Emily Wunderlich has been promoted to editor at Viking. Alaina Mauro is leaving her position as associate director for James Patterson at Hachette Book Group. She can be reached at mauroalaina@gmail.com. Earlier in the year senior editor Laura Fazio left the Patterson BookShots team to work for the app Hooked. Maggie Sivon has been promoted to head of publicity for Amazon Publishing. Jeff Kinney, creator of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, has announced that Vanessa Jedrej will join Wimpy Kid in the newly created role of global brand manager, effective June 12. Previously, she was marketing director for Penguin […]
More May Picks: Library Reads, iBooks
Gail Honeyman’s novel Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine tops the May Library Reads list. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017: Spring/Summer, including The Radium Girls, by Kate Moore; Since We Fell, by Dennis Lehane (also included in our May Buzz Books Monthly); and Ginny Moon by Benjamin Ludwig. The rest of the list: The Leavers, by Lisa Ko Saints for All Occasions, but J. Courtney Sullivan White Hot, by Ilona Andrews Sycamore, by Bryn Chancellor Astrophysics for People in a Hurry, by Neil de Grasse Tyson The Jane Austen Project, by Kathleen A. […]
Briefs: Prizes for Johnson and Shepard, Tor Labs, Opening Magic, and More
The inaugural winner of the $50,000 Simpson Family Literary Prize — honoring “a writer who has earned a distinguished reputation and the approbation and gratitude of readers” — is T. Geronimo Johnson, “at the relatively middle stage of a burgeoning career.” Author most recently of The World to Come: Stories Jim Shepard won the 2016 Rea Award for the Short Story, cited for his “prodigious research” into history and science and “X-ray vision of the soul.” The National Book Foundation gave their Innovations In Reading prize to Barbershop Books, a community-based literacy program that creates child-friendly reading spaces in barbershops, founded in 2013 by Alvin […]
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At Amazon Publishing, Katie Finch has been named director of strategic programs. Tilo Eckardt will return to Random House Germany to take charge of Heyne’s hardcover and paperback fiction list, reporting to Ulrich Genzler. He has spent the last four year as an agent with Mohrbooks, and was previously editor-in-chief of Heyne’s hardcover imprints. At Harper Collins, Jennifer Murphy has been promoted to marketing coordinator. Sky Pony Press has promoted Alison Weiss to editor-in-chief. At Chronicle, Jaime Wong has been promoted to marketing manager, children’s. Author of Falling Angel William Hjortsberg, 76, died on April 22. He was the author of eight novels […]
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Rich Thomas will join HarperCollins Children’s as vice president and publishing director, reporting to Kate Jackson. He was most recently associate publisher and editorial director for Disney Publishing Worldwide. At HarperCollins Children’s, he will lead the Festival, I Can Read, and licensing programs. Jane Starr Literary Scouts has been appointed US scout for Vigmostad & Bjoerke in Norway. Awards Granta has announced its Best of Young American Novelists list, released with a special issue every ten years. The list includes 21 names selected this year by Patrick deWitt, A.M. Homes, Kelly Link, Ben Marcus and Granta’s editor and publisher Sigrid Rausing. Among the winners […]