The National Endowment for the Humanities has selected the first 36 recipients in their new Public Scholar program, which “supports well-researched books in the humanities conceived and written to reach a broad readership.” The initiative awards 6- and 12-month grants, paying writers $4,200 a month (resulting in grants worth $25,200 and $50,400). Among the recipients is Pulitzer winner Dianne McWhorter, for her long in-the-works book Moon of Alabama: The Space Race and Civil Rights in Post-WWII Huntsville. She tells the Washington Post, “How splendid that the NEH has decided to recognize hybrids like me — journalist-historians who combine the storytelling imperative of […]
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At Tarcher, Joanna Ng has been promoted to associate editor. For Tarcher & Pergiee, Tyler Fields is being promoted to publicity and marketing coordinator. Amanda Roser has joined bluebottlebiz as marketing and communications manager, based in Boston. Awards The Romance Writers of America named the winners of their RITA and Golden Heart awards in 19 categories on Saturday night. Bookselling Barnes & Noble has agreed to open a new 18,000-square-foot store in 2017 as an anchor tenant in a new mall in Ashburn, VA, near Reston and part of the Washington, DC-metro area. Launched Former Elliott Bay Book Company bookseller and book critic at […]
Best Boy by Eli Gottlieb Leads August Library Reads List
Eli Gottlieb’s new novel Best Boy is the No. 1 pick for the August Library Reads list. The list also includes The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Fall/Winter ebook. The rest of the list features: The Nature of the Beast, by Louise Penny A Window Opens, by Elisabeth Egan Everybody Rise, by Stephanie Clifford The Fall of Princes, by Robert Goolrick In a Dark, Dark Wood, by Ruth Ware Black-Eyed Susans, by Julia Heaberlin Lord of the Wings, by Donna Andrews Browsings, by Michael […]
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At Trident Media Group, Tara Carberry has been promoted to associate agent, continuing to work with Kimberly Whalen and Erica Spellman Silverman. Dawn Ryan has been promoted to managing editor for Knopf Children’s. KF Literary Scouting is now scouting children’s, young adult, and new adult titles on behalf of Bayard in France and Harper Germany, both in the areas of (while continuing to scout for separate adult publishers in both territories). The Frankfurt Book Fair announced the 16 Fellows for this year, including Sarah Bowlin at Holt and Anna Kelly at Fourth Estate, along with such editors as Liciane Correa, Aurelia Goyens, Diana Hernandez […]
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The Walker Books Group has hired Lucy Pleydell-Pearce for the new global role of senior group and intercompany sales manager, starting July 6. She will “manage the intercompany sales flow for books originating in each territory that publish within the group, including monitoring release timings and enhancing group communication across all publishing lists,” as well as heading “sales outside the group, chiefly selling titles to third-party customers in the UK and US where rights are available.” Pleydell-Pearce was formerly foreign rights manager at Templar Books. Diane Aronson has joined Bloomsbury Children’s as senior production editor. She was previously a production editor at Cambridge University […]
McLain’s Circling the Sun Tops August Indie Next List
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for August. The rest of the list also includes Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal and The Marriage of Opposites, by Alice Hoffman, both featured in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books 2015 ebook, as well as: Fishbowl, by Bradley Somer Armada, by Ernest Cline The Girl Who Slept with God, by Val Brelinski You’re Never Weird on the Internet (Almost), by Felicia Day Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother’s Story, by David Payne Dragonfish, by Vu Tran Orphan #8, by Kim van Alkemade Mrs. Sinclair’s Suitcase, […]