Pocket senior editor Abby Zidle will move over to Gallery Books Group marketing team as associate director of marketing. Shelby Howick has been promoted to associate publicist in the Grand Central publicity group. In obituaries, novelist and son of John Steinbeck, Thomas Steinbeck died last Thursday, at age 72. And founder of Hugo Books bookstore in Newburyport, MA Robert “Bob” W. Hugo, also 72, died on July 27. Awards James Shapiro‘s 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear and Benjamin Markovits‘s novel You Don’t Have to Live Like This won the UK’s two James Tait Black prizes. Kindle Unlimited Amazon’s retrospective payout allocation for […]
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Peter Knapp has rejoined Park Literary Group as an agent, focusing on middle grade and young adult fiction. Previously he was an agent at New Leaf Literary & Media. At Harper Christian, Becky Monds has been promoted to acquisitions editor for fiction, and Karli Jackson moves up to associate acquisitions editor. PEN America is bringing back their PEN/Nabokov Award — last awarded in 2008 — now providing a $50,000 prize “to a writer born or residing outside the United States for an outstanding body of work over a sustained career.” The organization’s first award focused on international authors, organization president Andrew Solomon adds in the […]
Forman’s Leave Me Tops September Library Reads List
Gayle Forman’s novel for adults, Leave Me, is the no. 1 pick for the September Library Reads List. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner Dinah Jefferies, The Tea Planter’s Wife Sharon Bolton, Daisy in Chains Thomas Mullen, Darktown Genevieve Cogman, The Masked City Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide
Another Oprah Pick for September
Following quickly on Oprah Winfrey’s book club pick of Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad — which was moved up from a planned September release at Winfrey’s request — is another Oprah selection, scheduled for September 6 publication. The WSJ wrote about it online this morning before metadata was officially posted on bookselling sites, and “a spokesman for the Oprah Winfrey Network said she couldn’t confirm that another selection was coming in September.” But major sites now display info for the pick. The book is published by Macmillan (most distribution metadata lists St. Martin’s), runs 272 pages, and has a US […]
Patchett’s Commonwealth Leads September Indie Next List
Ann Patchett’s new novel Commonwealth is the No. 1 pick on the ABA’s September Indie Next List. Also on the list are Amor Towles’ A Gentleman in Moscow; Little Nothing by Marisa Silver; Nathan Hill’s The Nix; Mischling by Affinity Konar; and The Gentleman by Forrest Leo — all six of which, including the Patchett, are featured as lengthy pre-publication excerpts that you can read right now in Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. Additionally, Colson Whitehead’s Oprah-anointed The Underground Railroad is also an Indie Next Choice for September (the month of its original publication date.) The rest of the list comprises: Leave Me, […]
More Bookseller August Picks
Aside from the moved-up Oprah pick by Colson Whitehead, here are more top bookseller picks for August. Barnes & Noble‘s fiction recommendations feature: Three Sisters, Three Queens, by Philippa Gregory Rushing Waters, by Danielle Steel Behold the Dreamers, by Imbolo Mbue The Nix, by Nathan Hill Harmony, by Carolyn Parkhurst Arrowood, by Laura McHugh Repo Madness, by W. Bruce Cameron The Book That Matters Most, by Ann Hood Christodora, by Tim Murphy Another Brooklyn, by Jacqueline Woodson The iBookstore Best Books of August lists align directly with BN in general fiction (Gregory, Woodson, Parkhurst, Hill and Mbue). Their nonfiction top […]