Allie Brosh leads the ABA’s November 2013 Indie Next list, which includes four titles you can start reading right now in our Publishers Lunch Buzz Books free ebook (asterisked): Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened, by Allie Brosh Two Prospectors: The Letters of Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark, Chad Hammett, Ed. We Are Water, by Wally Lamb* The Valley of Amazement, by Amy Tan* Bellman & Black, by Diane Setterfield Death of a Nightingale: A Nina Borg Thriller, by Lene Kaaberbøl and Agnete Friis Tatiana: An Arkady Renko Novel, by Martin […]
Awards
October Bookseller Picks
Amazon named their best books of October, with Donna Tartt’s novel as their “spotlight” pick and Graeme Simsion’s novel (excerpted in our free Publishers Lunch Fall/Winter Buzz Books ebook sampler) as the “featured debut.” Two more Buzz Books from Elizabeth Gilbert and Luke Barr also make the list: The Goldfinch, Donna Tartt The Rosie Project, Graeme Simsion The Signature of All Things, Elizabeth Gilbert Provence, 1970, Luke Barr Thank You for Your Service, David Finkel One Summer: America, 1927, Bill Bryson Allegiant (Divergent Trilogy), Veronica Roth Humans of New York, Brandon Stanton The Night Guest, Fiona McFarlane The Circle, Dave […]
Nook Adds More Executives, and More
There is still no actual ceo for all of Barnes & Noble, but the Nook Media subsidiary has added two more senior executives. Mahesh Veerina will become chief operating officer on October 7. He led the global software and cloud services team of over 2,500 engineers at Motorola Mobility until 2012, and was ceo of Ramp Networks and a vp at Nokia. Doug Carlson is evp of digital content and marketing, effective immediately. Most recently he was executive chairman and managing director for Zinio — which helped create BarnesandNoble.com’s “see inside” the book previews. Both report Nook Media ceo Michael […]
BISG Presents Industry Awards, and More
The BISG presented their first industry awards Friday at their annual meeting (informally dubbed the Groupies by BISG staff members). The honorees were: Friend of the Industry: Phil Madans, Hachette Book Group Industry Innovation: Edelweiss Disruptor: Allen Lau, Wattpad Most Valuable Committee Participant: Laurie Stark, Penguin Random House In other awards, the October Target Book Club pick is the new trade paperback edition of Ann Leary’s THE GOOD HOUSE. The Southern California Independent Booksellers presented their awards on Friday, to books ranging from Publishers Lunch Buzz Books Spring/Summer title Tom McNeal’s FAR FAR AWAY for YA fiction to Marisa Silver’s MARY […]
People: MacArthur Honorees, and more
Swamplandia! author Karen Russell and novelist Donald Antrim are among the new class of 24 MacArthur Foundation fellows (now providing honorees with $625,000 over five years). Margaret Rogalski has joined Gotham & Avery as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Princeton Architectural Press. Australian novelist Christopher Koch, 81, author of The Year of Living Dangerously and a two-time winner of the Miles Franklin Award, died on Sunday. Dave Holton, 66, who worked with BEA for more than 20 years, passed away on September 18 after a long battle with cancer. BEA show director Steve Rosato writes on his blog: […]
People, Etc.
In the continuing consolidation of responsibilities and reporting lines at the merged Penguin Random House, Random’s Cyrus Kheradi has been promoted to svp, director of international sales & marketing for Penguin Random House, overseeing all of the company’s U.S.-originated activities in his area, including the sales team for Penguin’s export market and its international marketing group. The company indicated that “selling responsibilities for the individual international reps at Random House and Penguin are unchanged.” Kheradi also continues as director, East Asia business development for Random House. He reports to Penguin Random House US president and coo Madeline McIntosh, who said: “For […]