Kelly Bowen has joined Arcadia Publishing and the History Press as director of marketing and corporate communications. She was previously publicity director at Algonquin Books. Springer Nature (the newly combined Springer + Macmillan Science and Education) has created a new policy & external relations team led by evp Eric Merkel-Sobotta, and a combined communications under evp Joyce Lorigan. Both will report to ceo Derk Haank. Awards David Hackett Fischer won the Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The $100,000 award will be presented at the Museum & Library’s annual gala on November 7.
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July’s Best from Amazon and iBooks
Indie Next No. 1 pick for July The Oregon Trail by Rinker Buck makes both the Amazon and iBooks “best books of July” lists as well. (Barnes & Noble abandoned monthly lists some time ago — but they did roll out their revamped web site on Tuesday, with some downtime.) Amazon and iBooks both recommend: Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Confession of the Lioness, Mia Couto Vendetta, James Neff Bull Mountain, Brian Panowich The rest of Amazon‘s top picks: Circling the Sun, Paula McLain Speak, Louisa Hall The Hand That Feeds You, A. J. Rich The Last Pilot, […]
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David Hawk joins Ten Speed Press on July 6 as senior marketing and publicity manager. Previously he was a marketing and publicity manager at Chronicle Books, specializing in food and drink titles. Yuka Igarashi will join Catapult as web editor-in-chief in August. Previously she was managing editor at Granta. Awards Deborah Johnson has won the Harper Lee Prize in Legal Fiction for her novel THE SECRET OF MAGIC (Berkley). The inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize, recognizing a “promising young writer of an unpublished work of nonfiction that addresses a global and/or multicultural issue,” is going to Adriana E. Ramírez for “Dead Boys.” Picks […]
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Sara Sargent will return to Harper Children’s on July 13, in the new position of executive editor, reporting to Kate Jackson. She will acquire teen, middle grade and picture book fiction and nonfiction titles “created from or around digital and social media content. Sargent was most recently at Simon & Schuster, Robert Bolick is joining the International Baccalaureate (IB) as head of digital publishing & language services. After many years at McGraw-Hill Education, most recently he has been director of digital business transformation at the British Standards Institution. Awards The ALA presented their Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence to Anthony Doerr for All the Light We Cannot See for fiction, and […]
Amazon’s Best of 2015 So Far
Amazon has posted their traditional lists of the “best books of the year so far” in 17 categories, selected by the site’s editors. (Three of their Top 10 were first previewed prior to publication in our Buzz Books samplers; check out the new fall/winter free Buzz Books ebooks to preview some of the “best of” the next six months of the year.) Amazon’s Top 20 overall titles are: 1. H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald 2. An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir 3. Dead Wake by Erik Larson 4. Ghettoside by Jill Leovy 5. The Sympathizer by Viet Than Nguyen 6. […]
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Kim Shannon has been promoted to vp, director, retail sales at Penguin Random House. Awards The Carnegie Medal was awarded to Tanya Landman for Buffalo Soldier, while the Greenaway Medal was given to William Grill for Shackleton’s Journey, which he wrote and illustrated. Grill is the youngest prize winner (at age 25) in more than 50 years. Obituary James Salter, 90, died June 19 in Sag Harbor, NY. He was the author of novels including A Sport and a Pastime (1967) and Light Years (1975) as well as two short story collections and a memoir. The NYT reports his wife […]