The National Book Critics Circle announced the nominees for their annual awards on Monday afternoon. The winners will be named March 17. As usual, the nominees overlap in many planes with our aggregated list of the Absolutely Best of the Best Books of 2015 — which means the biggest surprise is that Booker- and NBA-candidate Hanya Yanagihara’s A Little Life is not up for the NBCC fiction award. The complete nominees are: Fiction The Sellout, by Paul Beatty (FSG) Fates and Furies, by Lauren Groff (Riverhead) The Story of My Teeth, by Valeria Luiselli (Coffee House) The Tsar of Love and […]
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Suzanne O’Neill will join Grand Central as vp, executive editor on February 1. Previously she was vp, executive editor at Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press. At the Berkley publishing group, Brent Howard has been promoted to executive editor. Amanda Ng and Katherine Pelz have both been promoted to associate editor. At Random House Children’s, Alice Jonaitis has been promoted to executive editor. Novelist (High Dive, March 2016) and editor Jonathan Lee has joined Catapult as senior editor, acquiring both books and original web content. He was most recently an editor at A Public Space. Londa Alderink moves over to Zonderkidz and Blink YA as vp, […]
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Barnes & Noble has promoted Mary Amicucci to chief merchandising officer, continuing to report to coo Jaime Carey. In her new role, Amicucci will oversee the planning of all merchandising initiatives and will also be responsible for managing and developing talent across all of the merchandising groups within Barnes & Noble. Carey said in the announcement: “Mary has a proven track record of success and leadership of our physical book business, making her the perfect choice for this position. She has already made an outstanding contribution to our merchandising efforts and we’re excited to see what she will achieve in […]
Picture Books Reign As LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET Wins Newbery, Gets Caldecott Honor
The ALA presented their many Youth Media Awards Monday morning on the closing day of their winter meeting in Boston. The Newbery medal went to LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET by Matt de la Pena (Putnam Children’s), the first time a Latino author has won the award and a rare win for a picture book. De la Pena and illustrator Christian Robinson also received a Caldecott honor, with that award going to FINDING WINNIE, illustrated by Sophie Blackall and written by Lindsay Mattick (Little, Brown Children’s). Among other honorees, Laura Ruby won the Michael L. Printz Award for BONE GAP (Balzer + Bray) and […]
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At St. Martin’s, Michael Homler and Daniela Rapp were promoted to senior editor; Meredith Mennitt, Eileen Rothschild and Holly Ingraham were promoted to editor; Courtney Littler and April Osborn are now associate editors; and Alicia Clancy, Jaime Coyne, Sylvan Creekmore and Sara Thwaite moved up to assistant editor. Publicity directors Susan Corcoran at Ballantine Bantam Dell and Sally Marvin at Random House have both been promoted to senior vice president. At St. Martin’s Press, Jessica Preeg has been promoted to publicity manager. Orbit has hired two new commissioning editors, all starting January 11: Kelly O’Connor was at Harper Voyager, and Brit Hvide was at Simon & Schuster, while Lindsey Hall is promoted to commissioning editor from within Orbit. Margaret Sutherland […]
Benjamin’s The Swans of Fifth Avenue Leads February Indie Next List; Sepetys Tops LibraryReads List
Melanie Benjamin’s newest historical novel The Swans of Fifth Avenue is booksellers’ number one pick on the ABA’s February Indie Next list. The rest of the list features: Be Frank With Me, by Julia Claiborne Johnson The Yid, by Paul Goldberg Breaking Wild, by Diane Les Becquets Orphan X, by Gregg Hurwitz The Portable Velben, by Elizabeth McKenzie The Forgetting Time, by Sharon Guskin All the Birds in the Sky, by Charlie Jane Anders The Things We Keep, by Sally Hepworth The Arrangement, by Ashley Warlick Sweetgirl, by Travis Mulhauser Georgia: A Novel of Georgia O’Keeffe, by Dawn Tripp My […]