Olivia Taussig has joined Viking Penguin as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Other Press. Yanni Kuznia has been promoted to managing editor and chief operating officer of Subterranean Press. The Savannah Book Festival has hired Kim Bockius-Suwyn as its new executive director. Rotraut Susanne Berner of Germany and Cao Wenxuan of China were named as the winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
Awards
April Bookseller Picks
Augusten Burroughs’ Lust & Wonder is Amazon‘s spotlight pick for April, and Lab Girl by Hope Jahren is their featured debut. The rest of their best books of the month are: Maestra, L.S. Hilton Dodgers, William Beverly Kill ‘Em and Leave ‘Em, James McBride Consequence, Eric Fair The Mathews Men, William Geroux The Last Painting of Sara de Vos, Dominic Smith Girls & Sex, Peggy Orenstein Rise of the Rocket Girls, Nathalia Holt A Burglar’s Guide to the City, Geoff Manaugh The iBooks Store is featuring these titles as the month’s best fiction: The Regional Office Is Under Attack!, Manuel Gonzales Eligible, Curtis Sittenfeld Daredevils, Shawn Vestal […]
People, Etc.
Allison Malec Renzulli will join Ten Speed Press as associate director of marketing on April 11, working out of Crown’s New York offices. Previously she was culinary marketing director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In addition, David Hawk has been promoted to assistant publicity director; Daniel Wikey moves up to marketing and publicity manager and Erin Welke has been promoted to publicity manager. PEN America announced it will honor Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji with the 2016 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award at its annual Literary Gala on May 16. Corporate Egmont sold its Czech subsidiary, with sales of close to $5 million, […]
May Indie Next List
We already noted that Elizabeth Church’s The Atomic Weight of Love was the ABA’s Indie Next No. 1 pick for May, but now the full list has been released. And it includes 6 books already featured in our spring/summer Buzz Books free ebook and available for you to start reading now (asterisked): The Mirror Thief, by Martin Seay Everyone Brave Is Forgiven,* by Chris Cleave Redemption Road, by John Hart Everybody’s Fool, by Richard Russo Britt-Marie Was Here, by Fredrik Backman Mothering Sunday: A Romance, by Graham Swift LaRose,* by Louise Erdrich Julia Reed’s South: Spirited Entertaining and High-Style Fun All […]
People, Etc.
ICM has promoted nine of its agents to partner, including literary agent Alexandra Machinist, who joined the agency in 2014. Adriana Rizzo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as vp, marketing on April 6. Previously she was senior director, marketing at ESPN. In addition, Maire Gorman will take on the new role of svp, sales, while Laurie Brown moves up to svp, associate trade group publisher and business development. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Knox Huston has been promoted to executive editor. Awards The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize was awarded to Susan Southard for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking) while the […]
People, Etc.
At Simon & Schuster, Bob Bender has been promoted to vp, executive editor. In addition, Jofie Ferrari-Adler and Ben Loehnen also move up to executive editor. Brendan Curry has been appointed to the newly created role of vp, trade sales and marketing at Norton. Curry, who has been with Norton since 2001, most recently as senior editor, will oversee the “smooth integration and synthesis” of trade sales, marketing, and publicity. Ian Delaney will join Chronicle Books as indie trade sales coordinator on April 6. Previously, Ian was the sales and marketing manager at McSweeney’s. At Booklist, Keir Graff has been […]