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 […]
Awards
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 […]
People, Etc.
Kerry Eltman has joined Fox Chapel Publishing as chief financial officer. Previously he was controller at The Jay Group, a logistics and supply chain company. John Aardema has joined Sourcebooks in the newly created position of art director in the entertainment & gift group. He spent the past nine years as a freelance art director. William LoTurco has joined Kuhn Projects as an associate agent. Previously, he was at Vigliano Associates and WME. The Romance Writers of America announced its Golden Heart and RITA Award winners at its annual conference in San Antonio, TX last Friday. As of Monday morning, […]
Ferris, Fowler, Hustvedt & Powers Add American Flavor to Booker Longlist
The longlist for the Booker Prize was announced Wednesday morning, the first to include American authors after a widely discussed rule change late last year. Titles by four American authors — TO RISE AGAIN AT A DECENT HOUR by Joshua Ferris, WE ARE ALL COMPLETELY BESIDE OURSELVES by Karen Joy Fowler, THE BLAZING WORLD by Siri Hustvedt, and ORFEO by Richard Powers — as well as THE DOG by Joseph O’Neill, a dual Irish/American citizen, made the Booker longlist, along with other notable forthcoming titles by David Mitchell (THE BONE CLOCKS, September), Howard Jacobson (J, September in the UK, March […]