ICM has promoted nine of its agents to partner, including literary agent Alexandra Machinist, who joined the agency in 2014. Adriana Rizzo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as vp, marketing on April 6. Previously she was senior director, marketing at ESPN. In addition, Maire Gorman will take on the new role of svp, sales, while Laurie Brown moves up to svp, associate trade group publisher and business development. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Knox Huston has been promoted to executive editor. Awards The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize was awarded to Susan Southard for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking) while the […]
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At Simon & Schuster, Bob Bender has been promoted to vp, executive editor. In addition, Jofie Ferrari-Adler and Ben Loehnen also move up to executive editor. Brendan Curry has been appointed to the newly created role of vp, trade sales and marketing at Norton. Curry, who has been with Norton since 2001, most recently as senior editor, will oversee the “smooth integration and synthesis” of trade sales, marketing, and publicity. Ian Delaney will join Chronicle Books as indie trade sales coordinator on April 6. Previously, Ian was the sales and marketing manager at McSweeney’s. At Booklist, Keir Graff has been […]
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Megan Schumann will join the Crown Publishing Group on March 28 as senior publicist/marketer for Convergent Books, Crown Business, and Crown Forum. Previously she was a publicist at Dey Street Books & William Morrow. At Chronicle Books, Kayla Ferriera has been promoted to designer. Awards The Whiting Awards were announced in a ceremony Wednesday evening, including Mitchell Jackson, Alice Sola Kim, and Catherine Lacey (fiction); Brian Blanchfield and J.D. Daniels (nonfiction); LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Layli Long Soldier, Safiya Sinclair, and Ocean Vuong (poetry); and Madeleine George (drama). Each of the winners receives $50,000. Catherine Kapphahn won the Center for Fiction’s Christopher […]
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At Random House Children’s, Diane Landolf has been promoted to senior editor, Random House for Young Readers & Golden Books. Annie Berger has joined Sourcebooks Jabberwocky and Fire as editor. Previously she was associate editor at Harper Children’s. In addition, Caitlin Lawler has joined as sales coordinator. Previously she was site content editor at Prime Publishing. At Chronicle Books, Eliz Fink has been promoted to compliance manager, and Elke Olson moves up to senior project and business process manager. Linda Kaplan will represent foreign rights for Portland, OR-based publisher Forest Avenue Press. James Marcus has been promoted to editor at […]
Awards: Indies Choice Nominees, Bancroft Winners
The National Book Critics Circle will name the winners of their annual book awards tonight in a ceremony at the New School in NYC. In the meantime, the ABA announced the nominees for their annual book awards, with the winners to be named on April 13: Adult Fiction City on Fire, by Garth Risk Hallberg (Knopf) Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) Get in Trouble, by Kelly Link (Random House) A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara (Doubleday) The Sympathizer, by Viet Thanh Nguyen (Grove) Welcome to Braggsville, by T. Geronimo Johnson (William Morrow) Adult Nonfiction Between the World and […]
Sittenfeld’s ELIGIBLE Tops April Library Reads List
Curtis Sittenfeld‘s new novel Eligible, a retelling of Pride & Prejudice, is the No. 1 pick for the April Library Reads list. The rest of the list features: Nora Roberts, The Obsession (Berkley) Laurie R. King, The Murder of Mary Russell (Bantam) Amanda Quick, Till Death Do Us Part (Berkley) Martha Kelly, Lilac Girls (Ballantine) Joshua Hammer, The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu (S&S) Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a Doorway (Tor.com) Susan Mallery, Best of My Love (HQN) Julie McElwain, A Murder in Time (Pegasus) Molly Prentiss, Tuesday Nights in 1980 (Scout Press)