Andrew Kidd “has decided to leave agenting” and will depart Aitken Alexander at the end of October after 6 years there. The announcement says he will “pursue a new path in the book industry,” apparently to be announced in November. Eric Price has joined Melville House in the newly created role of vp, business development. Previously he was director of sales and marketing at Quercus US and before then was associate publisher and coo at Grove Atlantic. At Penguin Random House US, Akiko Iwamoto has been promoted to regional sales director, Asia, while Mike Zaug moves up to regional sales director, […]
Awards
Slate and the Whiting Foundation Team Up to Honor Second Novels
Slate and the Whiting Foundation have teamed up for the Slate/Whiting Second Novel List (which they are also calling “We Second That”). While more of an organized promotional campaign than an award per se — “akin to being retweeted by your literary idol, or finding out that the classmate you have a crush on thinks you’re cute” — the idea is to recognize five second novels published over the past five years “whose first trips through the literary-pressdustrial complex may not have been all the authors hoped for.” It was inspired by a tweet by Porochista Khakpour last June (“Can someone […]
People, Etc.
Jim Childs will become publisher of Rowman & Littlefield’s trade publishing group on October 13, 2014. He is currently president of Time Home Entertainment and publisher of Oxmoor House, where he has been employed since 2007. Childs will oversee the growing portfolio which includes the Globe Pequot Press units acquired earlier in the year, working in their offices in Guildford, CT and New York. R&L ceo Jed Lyons says in the announcement, “He’s one of the savviest and most creative people in our industry. We are delighted Jim has decided to take on the challenge of running what is now the largest regional publisher of […]
ABA Names Indies Introduce Titles For Winter/Spring 2015
The ABA has chosen the ABA’s Winter/Spring 2015 Indies Introduce titles for debut adult fiction & nonfiction, YA, and children’s: Adult fiction: Black River by S.M. Hulse (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 20) Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper (Simon & Schuster, January 20) Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekback (Weinstein Books, January 27) Young Skins by Colin Barrett (Grove Atlantic, March 3, paperback) Soil by Jamie Kornegay (Simon & Schuster, March 10) The Valley by John Renehan (Dutton, March 10) Church of Marvels by Leslie Parry (Ecco, May 12) The Travels of Daniel Ascher by Deborah Levy-Bertherat […]
National Book Award Fiction Longlist, and More Awards
The National Book Awards closed out their week of longlists with its ten-book fiction list. Originally slated for announcement on Thursday at 8 AM, the list was first leaked Wednesday evening after 7 PM by the Huffington Post, after which it was posted by the NYT and on the National Book website. The full list: Rabih Alameddine, An Unnecessary Woman (Grove Press) Molly Antopol, The UnAmericans (Norton) John Darnielle, Wolf in White Van (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See (Scribner) Phil Klay, Redeployment (The Penguin Press) Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven (Knopf) Elizabeth […]
People, Etc.
Lisa Gallagher will join DeFiore and Company on November 3, after five years as an agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. In the Penguin Random House sales department, Lauren Monaco has the new assignment of vp, director of sales, paperback and Berkley/NAL, Penguin Publishing Group. Hank Cochrane serves as vp, director of sales development, trade paperback & Berkley/NAL. Jeff Weber will run the newly unified Penguin Random House adult online & digital sales team, as vp, director, online & digital sales. Kent Anderson is promoted to director, online & digital sales, Penguin Publishing Group and Michael Rotondo is promoted to director, online & digital sales, Random House adult. With the […]