Gabrielle Gantz joins Palgrave as associate director of publicity. She was previously director of publicity at McSweeney’s. Mia Amato has joined Start Publishing as marketing director, overseeing all print and digital marketing of the recently acquired Cleis Press and Viva Editions imprints. Her background in digital channel marketing includes stints at Harlequin, Quirk Books, McGraw-Hill and Kensington. Firebrand Technologies has hired Satvinder Virdi as senior UK relationship manager, based in London, with responsibility for sales, projects and support of UK and European-based publishing clients. He was on the project management and technology operations team at Random House. Also in Europe, the company’s NetGalley has launched […]
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People, Etc.
Jeanne-Marie Hudson joins Berkley/NAL this week as vp, director of marketing. She was previously senior director, marketing communications & audience development at St. Martin’s Press. At Putnam, Anna Romig has been promoted to assistant marketing manager. Bethany Bryan has joined Papercutz as associate editor. Previously she was social media manager for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. At Scott Manning & Associates, Abigail Welhouse has been promoted to publicist. Awards Nominations for the Hugo Awards were announced over the weekend, with the winners to be named at Worldcon later this year. This year’s roster comes with no small amount of controversy, […]
Alexander Tops May Indie Next List
Poet Elizabeth Alexander‘s memoir THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD is the ABA’s No. 1 Indie Next pick for May. The rest of the list features the following (including 5 books, asterisked, you can start reading right now in our free Buzz Books 2015 ebook): Pieces of My Mother, by Melissa Cistaro* The Given World, by Marian Palaia The World Is on Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse, by Joni Tevis The Daylight Marriage, by Heidi Pitlor Whispering Shadows, by Jan-Philipp Sendker The Book of Aron, by Jim Shepard Church of Marvels, by Leslie Parry* Girl at War, by Sara […]
Indies Choice Nominees
Last week the American Booksellers Association announced finalists for the 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards, with voting on the winners to close at midnight on April 14 and the winners announced two days later. Adult Fiction All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell (Random House) The Magician’s Land, by Lev Grossman (Viking) The Museum of Extraordinary Things, by Alice Hoffman (Scribner) Natchez Burning, by Greg Iles (William Morrow) Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) Adult Nonfiction Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan […]
April Bookselling Picks
Big booksellers’ picks for some of the best books coming this month are posted. The April Indie Next No. 1 Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian is featured on Amazon’s best books of the month as well. Amazon and the iBooks Store both select The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer, which you can start reading right now in advance of publication in our free Buzz Books 2015 ebook. Other Buzz Books you can sample featured on this month’s list include Viet Thanh Nguyen‘s debut The Sympathizer (on Amazon’s list) — as well as Matthew Pearl‘s The Last Bookaneer (a winner for Pearl fans), Scott Simon‘s Unforgettable, and Maria Bello‘s Whatever…Love […]
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At the Crown Publishing Group, Nidhi Berry has been promoted to associate manager, foreign rights for the Ten Speed, Clarkson Potter, Potter Style, Potter Craft, and Pam Krauss Books lists. In addition, Courtney Snyder moves up to associate director, domestic rights. At Orbit, Laura Fitzgerald has been promoted to online marketing manager and Lindsey Hall has been promoted to assistant editor. At Yen Press, Stephanie Lee has been promoted to assistant editor. At the Fischer Harbage Agency, Christopher Hermelin has been promoted to associate agent. Former vp, director of subsidiary rights at Crown Linda Kaplan has launched Readmore Literary Management, […]