The National Book Critics Circle named their nominees for awards in six categories, with the winners to be named on March 16. Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing was given the John Leonard Prize for outstanding first book, and Michelle Dean is recipient of the organization’s annual citation for excellence in reviewing. Margaret Atwood was given their Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award. True to quirky form, the organization’s fiction nominees overlooks on the year’s major works. Colson Whitehead’s National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad — which smashed all records in our “book of the year” aggregated lists — was this year’s NBCC big […]
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Melissa Flashman has joined Janklow & Nesbit as an agent. She was at Trident Media Group for the past 10 years. Lindsey Rose has been promoted to senior editor at Grand Central. Tiffany Liao has been promoted to editor at Razorbill. In promotions at Macmillan Children’s, Liz Szabla has been promoted to associate publisher at Feiwel and Friends. At Holt Children’s, Rachel Murray has been promoted to assistant editor, as has Jessica Anderson at Christy Ottaviano Books imprint, Claire Dorsett at Roaring Brook Press also moves up to assistant editor, and Christine Barcellona was promoted to editor at Square Fish Paperbacks. In new hires at Scholastic’s […]
Mackintosh’s I See You Tops February Library Reads List
Clare Mackintosh’s sophomore suspense thriller I See You tops the February 2017 Library Reads list. The list also includes Elan Mastai’s debut All Our Wrong Todays and A Piece of the World by Christina Baker Kline, excerpts of which you can read right now in our February Buzz Books Monthly. Download it now for free (at Amazon, iBooks and Google Play, or get it from NetGalley where it’s a Spotlight Pick) and share it with your reader communities to help build buzz for all of publishing in February. The rest of the February Library Reads includes: Norse Mythology, by Neil Gaiman (Norton) My […]
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Sylvie Rosokoff has been promoted to director of foreign rights at Trident Media Group and Meredith Miller moves up to associate director. Claire Roberts, who has headed the department since 2006, is adding to her responsibilities as vice president by building her own domestic client list with a focus on upmarket and literary fiction, while continuing to handle international rights. Marketing technology and services start-up Optiq.ly formally confirmed two recent additions to their executive team: Didier Jean Charles joined the company in October as director of engineering (he was most recently the director of application and online technology at Lincoln Center), and Susan Ruszala is vp of sales (she was president […]
Mastai Tops February Indie Next List
For the second month in a row, a debut novel (and a title featured in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter edition) — All Our Wrong Todays by Elan Mastai — tops the Indie Next list. The full February list includes: Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee Lincoln in the Bardo, by George Saunders Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk, by Kathleen Rooney The Girl Before, by J.P. Delaney The Impossible Fortress, by Jason Rekulak A Separation, by Katie Kitamura Behind Her Eyes, by Sarah Pinborough Perfect Little World, by Kevin Wilson Swimming Lessons, by Claire Fuller 4 3 2 1, by Paul Auster […]
More January Picks
Adding to the monthly recommendations, iBooks has listed their top 5 books across four categories — adding to the consensus on Shanthi Sekaran’s novel, which you can sample now in our January Buzz Books alongside Stephanie Garber’s Caraval — including: Fiction Lucky Boy, Shanthi Sekaran Transit, Rachel Cusk 4 3 2 1, Paul Auster The Bear and the Nightingale, Katherine Arden Little Deaths, Emma Flint Nonfiction Reality Is Not What It Seems, Carlo Rovelli The Lost City of the Monkey God, Douglas Preston The Telomere Effect, Elizabeth Blackburn & Elissa Epel The New Odyssey, Patrick Kingsley A Really Good Day, Ayelet […]