Joel Scotkin has joined Open Road in the new role of chief technology officer, reporting to ceo Jane Friedman. Scotkin was previously ceo and founder of the technology consulting firm Random Walk and later ceo and lead investor in Masten Space Systems, a start-up focused on reusable space travel. Michelle Richter is joining Foreword Literary as an associate agent. She has been an editor at St. Martin’s. She is planning to represent a broad selection of fiction, and nonfiction focused on fashion, film, television, science, medicine, sociology/social trends, and economics for trade audiences. Jana Burson has launched The Burson Agency, […]
Awards
Indies Choice Winners: Atkinson, Marra, Rowell and More
The Indies Choice Award winners (and related ABA-selected E.B. White Read-Aloud Award winners) were named, for formal presentation at BEA. Additionally, indie bookstore benefactor James Patterson will be honored with the Indie Champion Award. The winning books and authors are: Adult Fiction Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson (Reagan Arthur Books) Adult Debut A Constellation of Vital Phenomena, by Anthony Marra (Hogarth) Adult Nonfiction The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, by Daniel James Brown (Viking) Young Adult Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell (Griffin) Middle Reader Flora and […]
Briefs: NEA Grants, Warren’s Memoir, Samsung for Kindle, and More
The National Endowment for the Arts announced nearly a thousand grants totaling roughly $75 million for the second half of their fiscal year. Literature claims just a small slice of that largesse, with 56 grants comprising $1.42 million. Among the larger recipients, receiving grants of between $30,000 and $90,000, are: 826 National; Association of Writers & Writing Programs; Council of Literary Magazines and Presses; Grub Street; The Loft Literary Center; PEN American Center; PEN/Faulkner; Poets & Writers; and Small Press Distribution. The full list (if you scroll down) is posted here. The Boston Globe “obtained” a copy of Elizabeth Warren‘s embargoed memoir set for release next […]
People, Etc.
Allison Renzulli has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the new position of culinary digital editorial director. She will be working from the New York office with the culinary marketing, editorial, and digital teams to oversee multiple digital initiatives. She was formerly senior marketing manager at Clarkson Potter. Elyse Turr has been named sales and marketing manager at Shire Publications and Old House Books, part of the Osprey Group. She was formerly an assistant marketing manager at Oxford University Press. Mike Salisbury has joined Yates & Yates as associate literary agent. Most recently he was marketing director of trade books at […]
Tartt Wins Pulitzer
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. The winners in the book categories are: Fiction: The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt (Little, Brown) History: The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832, by Alan Taylor (W.W. Norton) Biography: Margaret Fuller: A New American Life, by Megan Marshall (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) General Nonfiction: Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation, by Dan Fagin, (Bantam Books) Poetry: 3 Sections, by Vijay Seshadri (Graywolf Press) Drama: The Flick, by Annie Baker Both fiction finalists were also Publishers Lunch Buzz Books, The Son by Philipp Meyer and The Woman Who Lost Her Soul, by Bob […]
LAT Awards Honor Ozeki, Fink, Bulawayo, and Rowling; ALA’s Most Challenged
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Friday night. They include: Fiction Ruth Ozeki, A Tale for the Time Being (Viking) First Fiction NoViolet Bulawayo, We Need New Names (Reagan Arthur Books) Current Interest Sheri Fink, Five Days at Memorial (Crown) Biography Marie Arana, Bolivar: American Liberator (Simon & Schuster) Mystery/Thriller J.K. Rowling aka Robert Galbraith, The Cuckoo’s Calling (Mulholland) Other winners included Ulli Lust (Graphic Novel/Comics); Christopher Clark (History); Ron Padgett (Poetry); Alan Weisman (Science & Technology); and Gene Luen Yang (YA). Next up are the Pulitzer prizes, set to be announced Monday […]