The American Booksellers Association announced the finalists for the 2017 Indies Choice Awards and the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards, with the winners to be announced May 3. The nominees include: Adult Fiction A Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles (Viking) Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman (Atria) Commonwealth, by Ann Patchett (Harper) Darktown, by Thomas Mullen (Atria/37 Ink) LaRose, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) The Underground Railroad, by Colson Whitehead (Doubleday) Adult Nonfiction Born a Crime, by Trevor Noah (Spiegel & Grau) Hero of the Empire, by Candice Millard (Doubleday) The Glass Universe, by Dava Sobel (Viking) The Hidden Life of Trees, by Peter […]
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At National Geographic, Lisa Thomas has been promoted to publisher and editorial director of adult books, reporting to editorial director of National Geographic Partners Susan Goldberg and evp of consumer products and experiences Rosa Zeegers. Crown Publishing Group has realigned its marketing department in New York into separate teams. Julie Cepler has been promoted to vp, director of marketing, adding oversight for Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway in addition to her continuing efforts for Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press, still reporting to Donna Passannante. Associate marketing director Lisa Erickson takes on additional day-to-day management responsibilities and will report […]
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Ed Spade has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as director of digital sales and strategy. Previously he was senior account manager for content acquisition for Ingram Content Group. At Harper Christian, MacKenzie Howard has been promoted to associate publisher of Tommy Nelson children’s books and Thomas Nelson gift books; Jennifer Gott has been promoted to editorial director of specialty publishing; and Holly Halverson joins as editor for specialty publishing. Previously, she managed her own freelance editorial business. Katy Lynch was promoted to senior publicist for children’s and young adult at Sourcebooks. Eric Myers has left Dystel, Goderich, & Bourret to start his own agency, Myers […]
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Parkeast Literary Agency director Gloria Koehler has retired, and her duties have been outsourced to another firm. Donna Eastman will stay on as editorial director at Parkeast, and will continue to market its books. Koehler is cfo of Splinterfire, a family-oriented literary referral service she started with Donna Eastman. At Chronicle Books, Ariel Richardson has been promoted to editor, children’s. Lizzie Vaughn has joined as designer. Zak Nelson has joined Seattle-area Third Place Books and takes over as manager of events and marketing at the beginning of May. Most recently, he was a book reviewer for Shelf Awareness and a bookseller at Amazon Books. As planned, Wendy Ceballos […]
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Michael Martens has joined IDW Publishing as director of trade sales, and will act as liaison with Penguin Random House Publisher Services when they take over distribution in April. Martens had been consulting on that relationship, and was previously vp of trade sales at Dark Horse Comics. Harper Christian has appointed Tim Marshall senior marketing director for Thomas Nelson and Zondervan Gift Books, reporting to Michael Aulisio. Previously, he was an independent marketing and brand consultant. By most standards Pearson ceo John Fallon should have been fired by now, given the company’s disastrous performance. Instead, he was awarded a 20 percent increase […]
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At Chronicle Books, Viniita Moran has been promoted to senior web manager. Alina Buevich has been promoted to designer of marketing communications. Awards The New York Public Library announced the five finalists for the Young Lions Fiction Award: Clare Beams, We Show What We have Learned (Lookout Books) Brit Bennett, The Mothers (Riverhead) Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You Charlie Freeman (Algonquin) Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun (Liveright) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin) The winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are: Fiction: Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes (HMH) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin) Nonfiction: Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures (Morrow) Poetry: Tyehimba Jess, Olio (Wave Books) […]