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 […]
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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 […]
People, Etc.
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, […]
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Pam Spengler-Jaffee has been promoted to senior director, publicity and brand development for Avon/Voyager. Simon & Schuster Children’s announced a number of new hires and promotions across several departments. Matt Pantoliano has been promoted to associate director of digital marketing for the children’s division, while Carolyn Swerdloff moves up to assistant marketing director for Aladdin and Simon Pulse. Anthony Parisi has been promoted to associate marketing manager, education and library. In addition, Candace Greene has joined the group as marketing manager. Previously she was assistant marketing manager for author events and trade conventions at Scholastic’s education & library marketing group. […]
ABA Names New Indies Introduce Titles
The American Booksellers Association announced their summer/fall 2014 list of Indies Introduce Debut Authors, picked “as the brightest debuts of the coming season.” You can start reading the highlighted novels by Malcolm Brooks and Courtney Collins right now in our free ebook, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books 2014 Spring/Summer. (We published our packed sampler a little early this year, because the ABA’s Winter Institute was earlier than usual — but the bulk of the featured 40 excerpts come to market between late April and early July. So we still feature exclusive, and substantial, pre-publication looks at about 25 potential breakouts coming to market […]