Mary Marotta will move over to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group as senior vice president, group sales, staring March 8. She has been senior vice president, DK North America. She succeeds Chris Dufault and will report to Jaci Updike. Matty Goldberg, vice president of sales and acquisitions at Ingram Content Group, is retiring at the end…
Awards
March Picks: Indie Next, Library Reads
The ABA named Chris Whitaker‘s We Begin at the End as its No. 1 pick for March. Also on the list are Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, both available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer. The rest of the list: Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo…
People, Etc.
Kaitlyn Sanchez is joining Red Fox Literary as agent. She was previously associate agent at Olswanger Literary. In the publishing operations department at Penguin Random House, Hanna Glidden and Amanda Rodell are promoted to director, and Kim Wiley is promoted to manager. Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita, editor of crime anthologies including Unspeakable Acts…
People, Etc.
Jodi Weiss has been promoted to the newly created position of chief sales officer at Workman Publishing, unifying the Workman sales teams under a single leader for the first time. She reports to ceo Dan Reynolds, who says: “Jodi is extremely hardworking and a natural problem solver; she understands the importance of getting to know…
Briefs
Awards Max Gross‘s novel The Lost Shtetl won the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award. Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man and Colum McCann’s Apeirogon were selected as honor books. Bookselling A number of large UK retailers, including Waterstones, have yet again called on the government to reduce or remove their business rates (a tax on…
People, Etc.
At Macmillan Children’s, Kate Avino has been promoted to assistant editor, Odd Dot; Foyinsi Adegbonmire to associate editor, Feiwel and Friends; Samia Fakih to assistant editor, First Second Books; Kiara Valdez to associate editor, First Second Books; Trisha de Guzman to editor, FSG Children’s; Allegra Green to marketing manager; Dawn Ryan to executive managing editor; and Aurora…