The Wylie Agency is launching a new venture, The Wylie Agency España, with Cristóbal Pera overseeing the new unit, starting in September. Pera previously spent more than a decade at Penguin Random House Mexico, where he was most recently editorial director. Quarto will launch a new children’s book imprint, Seagrass Press, in fall 2016, publishing 12-16 titles annually. Overseeing the imprint is Josalyn Moran, who most recently was vp, publishing at Albert Whitman and children’s publishing director at Chronicle Books. Margaret Harrison has joined Ingram Content Group as director of product metadata (she was the ebook global supply chain manager at Oxford University Press) and Ed Spade has […]
Awards
The Art of Crash Landing by Melissa DeCarlo Leads September Library Reads List
Melissa DeCarlo’s novel The Art of Crash Landing is the No. 1 pick for the September Library Reads list. The list also includes Fates and Furies by Lauren Groff and Girl Waits With Gun by Amy Stewart, excerpts of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winterebook. The rest of the list features: Make Me, by Lee Child House of Thieves, by Charles Belfoure Did You Ever Have A Family, by Bill Clegg The Gates of Evangeline, by Hester Young Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things, by Jenny Lawson This Is Your Life, […]
Briefs: Pearson Sells The Economist, Too; GIRL ON THE TRAIN US Sales Reach 3 Million; and More
Following the recent sale of the Financial Times to Nikkei, Pearson has now sold its 50 percent stake in The Economist Group as well, for £469 million (or $731 million). Three-fifths of their stake (or a 30 percent share in the Economist) goes to Exor, the holding company for minority shareholder Agnelli, while the remaining portion (a 20 percent share) has been bought back by the Economist Group itself, funded by the sale of their headquarters, the Economist Complex, which has been the editorial team’s home for more than five decades. Pearson noted the “proposed changes will be put to a shareholder vote next month […]
August Amazon and iBooks Picks
There are many more lists to share: At Publishers Marketplace we’re already listing our extensive view of notable releases due out in October, joining our titles to watch for September and August. Separately, Time magazine listed their top 10 books so far for 2015. On Amazon‘s best books of August, Infinite Home by Karen Alcott is their spotlight pick, and Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal is their featured debut. The rest of their August picks are: Days of Awe, Lauren Fox Rising Strong, Brené Brown Barefoot to Avalon, David Payne Last Bus to Wisdom, Ivan Doig Street Poison: The Biography of […]
New Monthly Bookseller Picks
Costco’s Pennie’s Pick for August is Paula McLain‘s just-published Circling the Sun. The book was also the ABA’s August Indie Next No. 1 selection. Now the September Indie Next List is up, led by Bill Clegg’s debut novel Did You Ever Have A Family. They add a belated selection for Ta-Nehisi Coates’s already-published bestseller Between the World and Me as well, while you can start reading an excerpt right now of Amy Stewart’s Girl Waits With Gun in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Sweet Caress, by William Boyd In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware Everybody Rise, […]
Five Americans On Booker Prize Longlist
The longlist for the Booker Prize was announced Wednesday morning, including titles by five American authors — A LITTLE LIFE (Doubleday/Picador) by Hanya Yanagihara, A SPOONFUL OF BLUE THREAD by Anne Tyler (Knopf/Chatto & Windus), LILA by Marilynne Robinson (FSG/Virago), THE MOOR’S ACCOUNT by Laila Lalami (Pantheon/Periscope) — as well as agent Bill Clegg’s forthcoming debut novel DID YOU EVER HAVE A FAMILY (Scout Press/Jonathan Cape). Only one title, The Chimes by Anna Smaill, does not have an announced US publisher. Four independent publishers have titles on the longlist, including Garnet Publishing’s Periscope imprint, Pushkin Press’s One imprint, both of which appear for the first […]