At Picador, PJ Horoszko has been promoted to associate editor, while Isabella Alimonti moves up to associate publicist. In addition, Marlena Brown joins as publicist, working on fiction and nonfiction; she was previously at Oxford University Press and, before that, at HarperCollins. MacKenzie Fraser-Bub has joined Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Previously she was an agent at Trident Media Group. Stacey Graham has joined Red Sofa Literary as an associate agent. Biagi Literary Management will handle all domestic and international subsidiary rights licensing for Polis Books, effective immediately. Amy Rosenbaum is joining the Nancy Yost Literary Agency as rights manager. She previously […]
Awards
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Sarah Grimm has joined Crown as publicist, working on the Crown, Hogarth, Broadway, and Tim Duggan Books imprints. Previously she was an associate publicist at Putnam. Printz Award winner and two-time National Book Award finalist Gene Luen Yang has been named the new as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature. He says in the announcement, “I’m thrilled and humbled…. Reading breaks down the walls that divide us. By reading, we get to know people outside of our own communities. We gain knowledge others don’t expect us to have. We discover new and surprising passions. Reading is critical to our growth, both […]
Amazon’s January Picks
Amazon named Sunil Yapa’s Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist as their spotlight pick for January, and Andria Williams’s novel The Longest Night is their featured debut. The other top picks for January are: My Name Is Lucy Barton, by Elizabeth Strout The Geography of Genius, by Eric Weiner American Housewife, by Helen Ellis When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi Orphan X, by Gregg Hurwitz Bad News, by Anjan Sundaram Floodpath, by Jon Wilkman The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, by Katarina Bivald The Road to Little Dribbling, by Bill Bryson
Strout Leads January Library Reads List
Elizabeth Strout‘s new novel My Name Is Lucy Barton is the No. 1 pick for the January Library Reads list. The list also includes the January No. 1 Indie Next Pick The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katrina Bivald, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Melanie Benjamin, The Swans of Fifth Avenue (Delacorte) Dean Koontz, Ashley Bell (Bantam) Helen Ellis, American Housewife (Doubleday) Bill Bryson, The Road to Little Dribbling (Doubleday) Sally Hepworth, The Things We Keep (St. Martin’s) Jane Cleland, Ornaments of Death (Minotaur) […]
Bivald’s Novel Tops Indie Next List for January
Katarina Bivald’s The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is booksellers’ number one pick on the ABA’s January Indie Next list. The rest of the list features: Your Heart Is a Muscle the Size of a Fist, Sunil Yapa The Song of Hartgrove Hall, Natasha Solomons My Name Is Lucy Barton, Elizabeth Strout Rosalie Lightning, Tom Hart American Housewife, Helen Ellis And Again, Jessica Chiarella Fallen Land, Taylor Brown The Visitors, Simon Sylvester After the Crash, Michel Bussi The Past, Tessa Hadley The Expatriates, Janice Y.K. Lee The Guest Room, Chris Bohjalian Only Love Can Break Your Heart, Ed Tarkington The Sound of Grave, Ruth Wariner When Breath Becomes […]
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At Catapult, Jennifer Abel Kovitz has been promoted to associate publisher and director of marketing, while Julie Buntin moves up to director of writing programs. The Costco Pennie’s Pick for December is Danielle Steel‘s Precious Gifts. This year on American Express Small Business Saturday, the Obama family visited Washington’s recently-opened Upshur Street Books. They purchased Purity, by Jonathan Franzen; Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights, by Salman Rushdie; Elske, On Fortune’s Wheel, and Jackaroo, by Cynthia Voigt; A Snicker of Magic, by Natalie Lloyd; Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli; Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Hard Luck, by Jeff Kinney; and Dork Diaries […]