Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult is the top selection of ABA booksellers for October. Their list also includes A Deadly Wandering by Matt Richtel, included in our Publishers Lunch Fall/Winter Buzz Books. You can download our free sampler from any ebookstore (or from the Buzz home page) to read substantial excerpts from Richtel’s book and all other included authors right now. The full Indie Next list is: #1: Leaving Time: A Novel, by Jodi Picoult The Paying Guests, by Sarah Waters Nora Webster: A Novel, by Colm Tóibín On Immunity: An Inoculation, by Eula Biss Good Grief: Life in a […]
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Former ceo of Atlantic Books Toby Mundy has established his own literary agency, Toby Mundy Associates. He will use Ed Victor Ltd.’s service operation Bedford Square Literary Management for “turn-key back-office service.” TMA is the first client for the new service. Amazon cfo since 2002 Thomas Szkutak will retire from the company in June 2015. Brian Olsavsky, vp of finance for the company’s global consumer business, will take over. Olga Massov has joined Phaidon in New York as project editor, food, reporting to Emily Takoudes. Melanie DeNardo has joined Little, Brown Children’s as publicity director. Previously she was deputy director of publicity at Henry Holt. In addition, […]
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Alessandra Bastagli has joined Nation Books as editorial director, filling the position vacated earlier this year when Carl Bromley moved to The New Press. Most recently she has been digital features editor at Al Jazeera America, after working at Free Press until it was merged into the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group in fall 2012. Meg Cassidy has left Simon & Schuster, where she was a publicity manager, to pursue freelance work in publicity, culinary pr, and event planning from Portland, OR. She can be reached at mcassidy9@gmail.com. At their annual meeting later this month, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will honor […]
Bone Clocks Tops Amazon’s September List
David Mitchell’s The Bone Clocks is Amazon’s September Spotlight pick, and Michael Pitre’s novel Fives and Twenty-Fives (already a featured Indie Debut and Indie Next book) is their featured debut. Two of our Publishers Lunch Fall/Winter Buzz Books make the list — Matt Richtel’s A Deadly Wandering and Tana French’s The Secret Place — along with these titles: Cosby: His Life and Times, Mark Whitaker What If?, Randall Munroe I’ll Drink to That, Betty Halbreich, Rebecca Paley Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace, Jeff Hobbs Stone Mattress, Margaret Atwood The Paying Guests, Sarah […]
Briefs: September Costco Pick; Amis Breaks with German, French Publishers; Maze Runner Movie
The September Pennie’s Pick at Costco is The Monogram Murders: The New Hercule Poirot Mystery, by Sophie Hannah. The Guardian reported that two of Martin Amis‘s longstanding international publishers — Hanser in Germany, and Gallimard in France — declined to publish his newest novel, The Zone of Interest, set in a fictionalized Auschwitz. Another German publisher has not been secured yet, but Calmann-Levy will publish the book in France in 2015. Editor Deborah Kaufmann says she is “delighted to be starting a long relationship with Martin Amis.” The Guardian notes, “He said that it was his understanding that Gallimard’s rejection was due to […]
Briefs: NPR to Announce National Book Award Finalists; Fall Previews Begin
The National Book Awards will announce its finalists on NPR’s Morning Edition at 8:40 PM on October 15. Books & Books owner and co-founder of Miami Book Fair Mitchell Kaplan will make the announcement. Longtime co-owner of Village Books Dee Robinson will retire at the end of the week after more than 34 years. “It’s been a great job for 34 years,” Robinson wrote in a Facebook post to customers. “On to whatever awaits, starting with a pile of books!” Robinson’s husband and co-owner Chuck Robinson will stay on. Ingram will handle sales and distribution for Magnet & Steel, a […]