The National Book Awards are announcing their longlists one by one this week, starting with the Young People’s Literature category with a list that showcases diversity, covering both young adult and middle-grade books. The finalists will be announced October 13 and the prizes will be awarded November 16: Kwame Alexander, Booked (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s) Kate DiCamillo, Raymie Nightingale (Candlewick Press) John Lewis, Andrew Aydin & Nate Powell (Artist) March: Book Three (Top Shelf) Grace Lin, When the Sea Turned to Silver (Little, Brown Children’s) Anna-Marie McLemore, When the Moon Was Ours (Thomas Dunne Books) Meg Medina, Burn Baby Burn (Candlewick […]
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Jana Branson has joined Clarkson Potter this week as associate director of publicity. Previously she was director of communications at Sequential Brands Group (formerly Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia), and replaces Anna Mintz, who is leaving Clarkson Potter to move back home to Atlanta and make a lifestyle change. In addition, Erica Gelbard has been promoted to executive publicist. Park Literary & Media is now representing foreign and audio rights for Sasquatch Books. Sharon Olds has been named the recipient of the Academy of American Poets’ $100,000 Wallace Stevens Award, deemed “an American master and a national treasure”.
Jiles’ News of the World Tops October Library Reads List
Paulette Jiles’ new novel, News of the World, is the no. 1 pick for the October Library Reads List. You can start reading an excerpt of that book as well as of Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein, Brit Bennett’s debut novel (and No. 1 Indie Next Pick) The Mothers, and Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the Library Reads list features: The Trespasser, by Tana French Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult Crosstalk, by Connie Willis All the Little Liars, by Charlaine Harris Smoke and Mirrors, by Elly Griffiths The […]
Britt Bennett’s Debut The Mothers Tops October Indie Next List
Britt Bennett’s debut novel The Mothers is the no. 1 pick on the ABA’s October Indie Next List. Also on the list are Jade Chang’s debut novel The Wangs vs. the World, Maria Semple’s Today Will Be Different, Paulette Jiles’ News of the World, Truevine by Beth Macy, Mercury by Margot Livesey, Marie Benedict’s The Other Einstein, all of which, including the Bennett, are featured as lengthy pre-publication excerpts that you can read right now in Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list comprises: Small Great Things, by Jodi Picoult Reputations, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez The Trespasser, by Tana […]
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Katie Grinch has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Putnam. Morgan Amer will join Chronicle as trade sales coordinator on September 13. She was an assistant manager at Ryland Peters & Small. Author of the Llama Llama children’s books Anna Dewdney, 50, died on Saturday of brain cancer. Forthcoming Scribner will issue a collection of what they call “the last remaining unpublished and uncollected short stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald” in April 2017, edited by Anne Margaret Daniel, titled I’D DIE FOR YOU. The promo copy notes that “some of these stories were submitted to major magazines and accepted for publication during Fitzgerald’s lifetime but […]
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Susan Ruszala has resigned from her position as president of NetGalley after 10 years with the company developing the business, and is exploring both consulting and full-time positions. She can be reached via sruszala@gmail.com. Fran Toolan has taken over day-to-day operations of NetGalley and “will continue to indefinitely.” VP, director of publicity at Simon & Schuster Children’s Jennifer Romanello is leaving on September 15, and will join Emi Battaglia Public Relations as a partner on October 1. (Romanello and Battaglia worked together for 20 years at Warner Books and Grand Central.) S&S Children’s president Jon Anderson writes, “In the two years she has been […]