At St. Martin’s Press, Dori Weintraub has returned full time to the publicity department as vp, publicity, with an enhanced and expanded role working on a wide array of fiction and nonfiction across all teams. Weintraub, most recently vp, marketing, communications & audience development, will report to Tracey Guest, who said in a statement: “Everyone who has worked with Dori Weintraub in the past fourteen years can attest to the passion, fierce intelligence and dedication which she brings to her work. She’s recognized by national media and reviewers as a force in the industry. Since media coverage is critical to […]
Awards
Doughty Tops September Library Reads
Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory tops the September Library Reads list which also includes The Secret Place by Tana French, which you can start reading right now in our fall/winter Publishers Lunch Buzz Books sampler. The rest of the list features: Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel Rooms, by Lauren Oliver The Children Act, by Ian McEwan The Distance, by Helen Giltrow Horrorstor, by Grady Hendrix The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters The Witch With No Name, by Kim Harrison Season of Storms, by Susanna Kearsley
People, Etc.
Lia Ronnen has been promoted to publisher at Artisan, effective September 2. She succeeds Ann Bramson, who will now acquire books across Workman’s imprints with the new title of executive director, special projects at Workman. Of Ronnen’s appointment, Bramson said in the announcement: “Lia is an amalgam of everything one could want in a publisher: editorial vision, graphic sensibility, and sales and marketing savvy. I have an extraordinary successor in place and can now explore some unorthodox concepts and formats that I have been eager to develop for a long time.” Tricia Boczkowski has been named vp, editorial director of […]
August Picks From Amazon and Costco
In Amazon‘s “best books of the month” list for August, Their spotlight pick is Hampton Sides’ In the Kingdom of Ice, and their featured debut is Malcolm Brooks’ Painted Horses, a PL Buzz Book selection. Two other fall/winter Buzz Books which you can start previewing now in our free ebook, by Matthew Thomas and Lev Grossman, are among the featured titles: Lucky Us, Amy Bloom We Are Not Ourselves, Matthew Thomas Bad Feminist: Essays, Roxane Gay The Birth of Korean Cool, Euny Hong The Magician’s Land, Lev Grossman Flings: Stories, Justin Taylor Worn Stories, Emily Spivack Blue-Eyed Boy: A Memoir, Robert […]
David Mitchell Tops September Indie Next List
The Bone Clocks is the top selection of ABA booksellers for September. Their list also includes 5 of our Publishers Lunch Fall/Winter Buzz Books — by Matthew Thomas, Jessie Burton, Katy Simpson Smith, Nayomi Munaweera, and Tana French — Download our free sampler from any ebookstore (or from the Buzz home page) to read substantial excerpts from all 5 Indie Next authors and more now. #1: The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel Neverhome, by Laird Hunt We Are Not Ourselves, by Matthew Thomas The Miniaturist, by Jessie Burton Accidents of Marriage, by Randy […]
People, PEN Awards, Etc.
Marcie Lawrence has joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as designer. She is a recent graduate from the School of Visual Arts MFA Design program, and was previously at Wenner Media. In addition, Maggie Edkins has been promoted to assistant designer. Susan Peterson has joined CodeManta as svp, sales. Most recently she was president of Blackwell Book Services, North America, prior to which she was svp of digital business at Baker & Taylor. Author, journalist, and NYC correspondent for National Public Radio Margot Adler died in New York City on July 28. DRAWING DOWN THE MOON was her well-known work […]