Emma Healey’s debut novel ELIZABETH IS MISSING leads off June’s LibraryReads list. Other books on the list include: China Dolls, by Lisa See The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street, by Susan Jane Gilman I Am Having So Much Fun Here Without You, by Courtney Maum The Matchmaker, by Elin Hilderbrand Summer House with Swimming Pool, by Herman Koch The Lobster Kings, by Alexi Zentner The Hurricane Sisters, by Dorothea Benton Frank The Quick, by Lauren Owen Rogues, edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois
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People: Lubart to HBG, and More
HarperCollins svp, sales analytics and pricing Dan Lubart has joined Hachette Book Group as svp, strategy and publishing operations, reporting to coo Joe Mangan. Lubart will oversee strategic planning, business development, digital media/distribution, and supply chain management functions of all HBG imprints. His work will include “a focus on business intelligence, enhanced reporting tools that combine sales, marketing, and publicity data, and continued improvement of demand forecasting.” He will “also help to identify new business opportunities, strategic partnerships and potential areas of growth and investment.” Mangan says in the announcement, “Dan is a high impact executive with deep skills in […]
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At Crown, Julian Pavia has been promoted to senior editor, while Christine Kopprasch moves up to editor. At Penguin, Kristin Spang has been promoted to publishing manager and manager of special initiatives at Penguin, and Lily Rudd has been promoted to publishing coordinator. Both continue to report to Susan Petersen Kennedy. At Seven Stories Press, Amy L. Hayden has been promoted to publicity manager. In addition, Ian Dreiblatt has joined as publicist. Previously he was New York manager for Dalkey Archive Press. Christina Faubert has joined Scribd as content acquisition manager, based in New York, working on “finding new publisher […]
May Book Picks
Amazon‘s best books of the month for May features Glenn Greenwald’s No Place to Hide as the “spotlight” title and Joel Dicker’s The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair as their featured debut. Two of our Spring/Summer Buzz Books make the list as well — which means you can start reading them right now ahead of publication, along with over 20 other potential breakout titles due over the next few months: Natchez Burning, Greg Iles Young God, Katherine Faw Morris The rest of the Amazon list for May features: To Rise Again at a Decent Hour, Joshua Ferris The Painter, Peter Heller The […]
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Former longtime Random House publicity executive Barb Burg died on Tuesday, at 50. Burg rose from a publicity assistant at Bantam Books in 1986 to svp, director of publicity and public relations for the Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group. In 2011, she took a position as director of global communications for Reuters News. A funeral will be held on Thursday, May 1 at 10 AM at Temple Beth Abraham, 25 Leroy Avenue, Tarrytown, NY. In lieu of flowers, contributions can be made in memory of Barbara Burg Schieffelin to Camp Ta-KumTa, a summer camp for children afflicted with cancer: PO […]
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Lindsay Sagnette has been promoted to editorial director for Crown and Hogarth, reporting to Molly Stern. In her new role Sagnette will help shape the overall Crown fiction list, while continuing to acquire and edit her own books. Newly reporting to Sagnette are senior editor Zack Wagman; editor Julian Pavia; associate editor Christine Kopprasch; and senior editor Alexis Washam, who will now take on an expanded role in acquiring trade paperback originals for Broadway Books in addition to her existing duties as US editor for the Hogarth Shakespeare and acquiring hardcover titles for Crown and Hogarth. At Katherine Tegen Books, […]