Dominique Cimina has been promoted to vp, executive director, publicity and corporate communications at Random House Children’s Books. Bess Braswell has joined Harper Children’s as senior director, marketing. She was most recently director of marketing for Teen, Middle Grade, Graphix, and Audio at Scholastic. At Touchstone, Meredith Vilarello has been promoted to associate marketing director. At Simon & Schuster, Christina Pecorale has been promoted to vp, director children’s sales. Cayla Rasi will join Random House Children’s as senior marketing manager, digital. Cayla previously worked at Deep Focus agency. The ABA confirmed the election of the four nominated board members; Kris Kleindienst of Left Bank […]
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Alaina Mauro has joined Little, Brown as publishing director, James Patterson. Previously she was a digital sales account manager at Penguin Children’s. Daniella Valladares will join Little, Brown Children’s as assistant editor, brand, licensed, and media tie-in publishing. She was most recently an assistant editor at HarperCollins. Sarah Williams has joined Penguin Random House as vp, director, strategy & development, special markets. Previously she was executive editor, business development at Chronicle Books. Diana Ventimiglia has joined North Star Way as editor. Most recently she was an editor at Sterling Publishing, where she focused on the culinary, mind/body/spirit, lifestyle, health, and pop […]
Backman’s BRITT-MARIE WAS HERE Leads May Library Reads List
Fredrik Backman’s new novel Britt-Marie Was Here is the No. 1 pick for the May Library Reads list. You can start reading excerpts of two of the novels on the list, The Fireman by Joe Hill and Everyone Brave is Forgiven by Chris Cleave, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Spring Summer. The rest of the list features: Stephanie Danler, Sweetbitter (Knopf) Clare Mackintosh, I Let You Go (Berkley) Dan Vyleta, Smoke (Doubleday) John Hart, Redemption Road (Thomas Dunne Books) Kelley Armstrong, City of the Lost (Minotaur) Laura Lippman, Wilde Lake (William Morrow) Lydia Millet, Sweet Lamb of Heaven (Norton)
Awards: Alvar Takes PEN/Bingham; Yanagihara A Contender Again, for Women’s Prize
Mia Alvar won the PEN/Bingham prize for debut fiction for her story collection In the Country, presented on Monday night. Ta-Nehisi Coates won PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Toni Morrison was unable to attend the awards gala, so Errol McDonald accepted the PEN/Saul Bellow Award for Achievement in American Fiction on her behalf. Separately, the UK’s Women’s Prize for Fiction announced their shortlist on the eve of the London Book Fair as usual, with Hanya Yanagihara’s novel A Little Life in contention again (after nominations for both the Booker and the National Book Award). The other nominees are: Ruby, Cynthia Bond […]
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Luiselli, Obioma, Graham, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Saturday night. They include: Fiction Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen (Little, Brown) Current Interest Sarah Chayes, Thieves of State (Norton) Poetry Jorie Graham, From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco) Other winners include Dan Ephron (History); Andrea Wulf (Science & Technology); Don Winslow (Mystery/Thriller); Riad Sattouf (Young Adult); Hayden Herrera (Biography); and Riad Sattouf (Graphic Novel). As previously announced, Juan Felipe Herrera won the Robert Kirsch Award and James Patterson was awarded […]
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Jennifer Schuster will become executive editor, Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press, reporting to Tricia Boczkowski, as of April 18. She had been at NAL. Amelia Possanza will join Flatiron Books as senior publicist on April 11. Previously she was a publicist at Touchstone. In addition, Kimberly Escobar will join as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Grand Central. Lisa Baker will join Aitken Alexander Associates as director of translation rights in August, and will also represent her own list of clients. She was rights director for Faber and Faber. Longtime co-owner of the Once Upon a Crime Bookstore Gary Shulze, 66, […]