John Siciliano has been promoted to executive editor, Penguin Classics. At Atria, Lisa Sciambra has been promoted to deputy director of publicity, while Valerie Vennix moves up to associate publicist. At Harper, Amy Bendell has been promoted to senior editor. The winners of the remaining CWA Dagger Awards were announced Thursday evening at the Crime Thriller Awards Ceremony: Gold: Dead Lions by Mick Herron (Soho Crime) Ian Fleming Steel: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs (Knopf) John Creasey New Blood: Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller (HMH) Alice Munro‘s daughter, Jenny, will accept the Nobel Prize for Literature on her mother’s behalf […]
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Samantha Edelson has been promoted to marketing manager for Macmillan Audio. Mobifusion has hired Michelle Lewy as director of publisher accounts, based in New York. Most recently, she was director of digital media services at Baker and Taylor. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Siena Koncsol has been promoted to publicist. Longtime Reed Exhibitions executive with oversight for BEA, svp Courtney Muller has resigned from her position. BEA show director Steve Rosato notes that Reed had realigned show responsibilities in August and put BEA under the supervision of Greg Topalian, a former BEA show director. Rosato now reports to Topalian. He writes: “On […]
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Bloomsbury will launch a new popular science imprint, Sigma, in October 2014 that will publish up to 15 titles per year globally and will be overseen by Jim Martin, previously an editor on the adult trade division’s natural science list. The first Sigma list include Sex on Earth by Jules Howard, The World’s Smallest Mammoth by Victoria Herridge, and additional titles by Amy Teitel, David Hone and Kat Arney. Martin said in a statement: “It’s very exciting to be able to bring new and dynamic authors to a broad audience with Sigma. The books will combine the very best writing […]
Next: The National Book Awards Shortlists
The first-ever National Book Awards longlists were narrowed down to five finalists in each category on Wednesday morning, ahead of the awards ceremony on November 20. Half of the contenders are published by Penguin Random House. As of 10:00, four free ebook samplers (titled “The Contenders”) will be available from major retailers, covering each of the awards categories, created and distributed with the assistance of Penguin. The nominees are below; rather than alphabetical order, we have listed them according to their print sales to date, with the biggest sellers listed first. (In fiction, Saunders has outsold the rest of the […]
Catton Wins the Booker
Eleanor Catton’s 848-page second novel THE LUMINARIES won the Booker Prize, awarded in London on Tuesday night. At 28, she is the youngest Booker winner ever. Little, Brown just published the book in the US earlier in the day, though it was issued previously in the UK (Granta) and her home of New Zealand (Victoria University Press). Little, Brown published her debut novel The Rehearsal as well. In thanking her publishers, Catton noted wryly that it “was a publisher’s nightmare,” since “the shape and form of the book made certain types of editorial suggestions…not only mathematically impossible, but also astrologically impossible.” (A […]
Tonight’s Booker
The Booker Prize will be awarded this evening in London. Jim Crace’s HARVEST has been the bettors’ favorite from the start and remains so today, albeit by a small margin. Based on historical trends, that makes it highly likely Crace will not actually win, since except for Hilary Mantel, the Booker “favorite” almost always loses. Eleanor Catton’s 848-page The Luminaries is a close second in the betting, and is finally on sale in the US today. There’s some question as to how much is actually wagered on the prize, though. The Telegraph says that “a mere £24” has been bet on […]