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 […]
Awards
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 […]
Awards: MacArthur Fellows, Nonfiction National Book Award Longlist
The MacArthur Foundation announced their latest group of 21 Fellows (recipients of $625,000 grants), including graphic novelist Alison Bechdel, poet Terrance Hayes, translator/poet Khaled Mattawa, and playwright Samuel Hunter. The National Book Awards also announced their nonfiction longlist Wednesday. (Notably, the nominees include only one woman; the young people’s literature and poetry longlists were evenly divided between male and female authors.) Roz Chast, Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Bloomsbury) John Demos, The Heathen School: A Story of Hope and Betrayal in the Age of the Early Republic (Knopf) Anand Gopal, No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and […]
Longlists: Giller Prize, National Book Award Poetry
Canada’s Giller Prize announced their longlist of twelve books: Arjun Basu, Waiting for the Man (ECW Press) David Bezmogzis, The Betrayers (Little, Brown/Harper Canada) Rivka Galchen, American Innovations (FSG/Harper Canada) Frances Itani, Tell (Black Cat (forthcoming)/Harper Canada) Jennifer Lovegrove, Watch How We Walk (ECW Press) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (Tin House/RH Canada) Shani Mootoo, Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab (Doubleday Canada) Heather O’Neill, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night (FSG/Harper Canada) Kathy Page, Paradise and Elsewhere (Biblioasis) Claire Holden Rothman, My October (Penguin Canada) Miriam Toews, All My Puny Sorrows (McSweeney’s/Knopf Canada) Padma Viswanathan, The Ever After of Ashwin […]