Doug Foot is retiring from Penguin Random House Canada, where he was evp, chief financial officer. Succeeding him, effective immediately, is chief operating officer Barry Gallant, who will oversee the finance, contracts, and information technology departments while keeping responsibility for publishing and sales operations, as well as warehouse and office administration. Foot, who first joined Random House of Canada in 1993, will staying through March 2016 “to assist with year-end and ongoing projects.” Newly reporting to Gallant are Cheralyn Wheeler, controller; Samantha North, director, contracts; and Ed Brooks, director, I.T. Melanie Britton and Donna Miller and their teams, as well as James Rowan, […]
Awards
Diversity Triumphs at National Book Awards with Coates, Shusterman and Lewis, As Johnson Wins Fiction Award
After last year’s unfortunate National Book Awards ceremony, when the one winner of color Jacqueline Woodson suffered emcee Daniel Handler’s “monstrously inappropriate and yes, racist…attempts at humor,” this year’s awards honored the most diverse set of authors to grace the NBA stage. The heavily-favored, agenda-setting Ta-Nehisi Coates won the nonfiction award and provided a powerful testimonial to the slain friend who inspired his book and the climate that African Americans still face very day — and he was joined by two other authors of color in the winner’s circle. In the biggest surprise of the evening, however, the one male fiction author […]
Awards: NBA, Costa, FT/McKinsey and More
The National Book Awards ceremony is tonight, in New York City. Once again, the event will be livestreamed for those who want to watch at home, with introductory remarks scheduled to begin at 7:40, and the presentation of this year’s winners set for around 8:50. Meanwhile, the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award was presented to Martin Ford for The Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of Mass Unemployment (Basic Books/Oneworld). Christopher Clearfield and Andras Tilcsik won the Bracken Bower Prize in support of “young authors tackling emerging business themes” for their book proposal on Rethinking the Unthinkable. In nominations, the Costa Awards announced their shortlists […]
Hall’s Selected Poems Leads December Indie Next List; November iBooks Picks
The Selected Poems of Donald Hall is the No. 1 Indie Next choice for December. The rest of the list includes: A Dictionary of Mutual Understanding, by Jackie Copleton A Wild Swan: And Other Tales, by Michael Cunningham, Yuko Shimizu (Illus.) Boys in the Trees, by Carly Simon The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, by Mitch Albom Year of the Goose, by Carly J. Hallman Time of Departure, by Douglas Schofield What She Knew, by Gilly Macmillan Oh the Moon: Stories From the Tortured Mind of Charlyne Yi, by Charlyne Yi Tightrope, by Simon Mawer Paradise City, by Elizabeth Day His […]
People: McGuire Leaving Ballantine Bantam Dell; Kloske Appointed Riverhead President; and More
Ballantine Bantam Dell executive vice president and publisher Libby McGuire will leave the company at the end of the year in order to “dedicate her time to seeking and creating new professional opportunities for herself,” RH Publishing Group president and publisher Gina Centrello writes. She notes McGuire’s departure “with great respect for those accomplishments, and for her wish to reenvision her career.” McGuire has spent more than 15 years at what became Ballantine Bantam Dell; her direct reports will report to Gina Centrello for an interim period. “Libby and her world-class publishing team are admired industry-wide for the creativity and care […]
People, Etc.
Marion Garner has been promoted to deputy publisher, vp of Penguin Random House Canada, continuing to report to president and publisher Kristin Cochrane. (Garner has been deputy publisher for the Random House Canada imprints). In the new, broader role, Garner “will have input into acquisitions, oversee the inventory of all our imprints, work closely with the imprint directors and publishers, and will have a hand in the behind-the-scenes elements of our publishing efforts as they involve marketing, publicity and sales meetings.” She will also manage all of the paperback publishing. Lindley Boegehold has joined Clarkson Potter as editorial director overseeing the Potter gift line of products. Previously she was […]