Stacy Lellos returns to Scholastic, as svp and general manager overseeing Klutz, reporting to Ellie Berger. Lellos has been vp of marketing at Toys R Us since 2013, prior to which she held a variety of publishing and marketing positions at Scholastic since 2000. Director of marketing and publicity at Soho Press Paul Oliver is launching Syndicate Books this fall as a sideline, focused on out-of-print mysteries and crime fiction. Soho will distribute his line (and they are distributed by Random House), and he aims to publish 5 to 10 titles a year, starting with Ted Lewis’s Get Carter (originally called Jack’s Return […]
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People: Mundy Resigns from Atlantic Books
The UK’s Atlantic Books announced Thursday that founder, ceo and publisher Toby Mundy has resigned from the company after 14 years, and will leave on June 30. He said in the announcement, “Everything must come to an end and I feel sure that the time is right to pursue new adventures in this exciting, unpredictable industry. Our authors could not be in better hands and I look forward to toasting their future triumphs.” Atlantic “will announce plans for his replacement in due course.” Allen & Unwin purchased a majority stake in the company in January after a few years of significant […]
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President and director of paperback sales at Penguin Norman Lidofsky will retire at the end of 2014 after more than 32 years with the company. In a staff memo, Penguin Random House president and coo Madeline McIntosh praised Lidofsky’s “sales leadership, book passion, and dedication” and called him “a generous and thoughtful colleague, an inspiring leader, and above all—a consummate salesman working unceasingly in support of Penguin’s books, authors, and publishers.” McIntosh added: “[Lidofsky] has led the way in building the trade paperback program into an industry force… He has helped to keep Penguin Classics vibrant, sustaining its presence as one of […]
LANDLINE by Rainbow Rowell Tops July Library Reads List
Rainbow Rowell’s novel LANDLINE, her first for adults, leads off July’s Library Reads list. #1 Indie Next Pick for July THE QUEEN OF THE TEARLING by Erika Johansen; Stephen Colbert-anointed debut novel CALIFORNIA by Edan Lepucki, and ONE PLUS ONE by Jojo Moyes, an excerpt of which you can start reading right now in our Spring/Summer Buzz Book, also appear on the list, which also includes: THE BLACK HOUR, by Lori Rader-Day CLOSE YOUR EYES, HOLD HANDS, by Chris Bohjalian WORLD OF TROUBLE, by Ben H. Winters DOLLBABY, by Laura McNeal THE MOCKINGBIRD NEXT DOOR: Life With Harper Lee, by […]
Johansen Tops July Indie Next
Erika Johansen’s The Queen of the Tearling is the No. 1 pick on the July Indie Next list. The rest of the recommended titles are listed below. As always, click through for the full bookseller comments. Landline, by Rainbow Rowell One Plus One, by Jojo Moyes That Night, by Chevy Stevens Last Night at the Blue Angel, by Rebecca Rotert The Quick, by Lauren Owen Flying Shoes, by Lisa Howorth The Appetites of Girls, by Pamela Moses Close Your Eyes, Hold Hands, by Chris Bohjalian The Glass Kitchen, by Linda Francis Lee Dry Bones in the Valley, by Tom Bouman Dollbaby, […]
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Eimear McBride won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for her novel A GIRL IS A HALF-FORMED THING, published by Galley Beggar Press in the UK and by Coffee House Press in the US in September. Prize chair Helen Fraser called the novel “an amazing and ambitious first novel that impressed the judges with its inventiveness and energy. This is an extraordinary new voice – this novel will move and astonish the reader.” Carl Bromley will join The New Press as editorial director. Previously he was editorial director at Nation Books. In addition, Marc Favreau has been promoted to executive editor. […]