Senior vice president of Hachette Digital & Audio Maja Thomas will leave her full-time position at the company after 22 years with Time Warner and then HBG, “for the next exciting chapter of her career.” As ceo Michael Pietsch notes, Thomas “has been a pioneer in the creation of HBG’s ebook and audiobook businesses. She has brought her vision, leadership, and entrepreneurial drive to the development of these key areas of our company and delivered enormously successful results and growth.” She has led Hachette Audio since 2000, and Hachette Digital since 2005, and “in the past three years Maja has […]
Awards
People, Etc.
Hannah Wood has moved to Harper as an associate editor. Isaac Fitzgerald will join McSweeney’s Publishing as publicity director on May 1. Previously he was managing editor of the literary website The Rumpus. Harper Christian has licensed exclusive rights to sell and distribute print editions of the entire catalog of titles from Spanish publishing house Editorial CLIE worldwide outside of Spain. The announcement underscores that the agreement includes the popular 1977 revised Reina-Valera Spanish Bible translation. CLIE books will be issued by Harper Christian as a separate imprint in their international roster, joining Grupo Nelson and Vida. As noted previously, it’s […]
LAT Awards Honor Boo, Caro, Fountain and Shipstead
On Friday night the winners of the Los Angeles Times Book Awards were named. They include: Biography Robert Caro, The Passage of Power (Knopf) Current Interest Katherine Boo, Behind the Beautiful Forevers (Random House) Fiction Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) First Fiction Maggie Shipstead, Seating Arrangements (Knopf) Mystery/Thriller Tana French, Broken Harbor (Viking) Other winners included Sammy Harkham (graphic novel); Fergus Bordewich (history); Louise Gluck (poetry); Florence Willams (science/tech); and A.S. King (YA).
Indies Choose Erdrich, Strayed, Ivey and Green and More
The ABA announced a popular set of Indies Choice Award winners for 2013, selecting “handselling favorites” as voted on by member stores. The honorees are: Fiction The Round House: A Novel, by Louise Erdrich (Harper) Nonfiction Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheryl Strayed (Knopf) Debut The Snow Child, by Eowyn Ivey (Little, Brown) Young Adult The Fault in Our Stars, by John Green (Dutton Children’s) John Green also won their “Indie Champion Award” Middle Grade Wonder, by R.J. Palacio (Knopf Books for Young Readers) Picture Book Extra Yarn, by Mac Barnett, Jon Klassen (Illus.) […]
People, Etc.: NYT Changes Advice Lists
As of the April 28 lists, the New York Times is changing their Advice, How-To and Miscellaneous bestseller lists. The separate hardcover and paperback lists–each listing 10 positions, with another 5 “also selling” titles–are combined into a single list with 20 numbered positions. The new combined list also incorporates ebook sales along with print sales. (Up until now, the paper has noted “e-book sales for advice & how-to books, children’s books and graphic books will be tracked at a future date.”) The first iteration is dominated by food and diet books, but a new business bestseller–PL Spring/Summer Buzz Book […]
Authors and Awards
Dwight Garner profiles John le Carré in this weekend’s NYT Magazine, saying he “is still writing at something close to the top of his game.” On his May release A DELICATE TRUTH, Garner writes: “The book is an elegant yet embittered indictment of extraordinary rendition, American right-wing evangelical excess and the corporatization of warfare. It has a gently flickering love story and a jangling ending. And le Carré has not lost his ability to sketch, in a line or two, an entire character.” Also in the magazine is an excerpt from Brian Stelter‘s TOP OF THE MORNING, which publishes next week. Time magazine selects their annual list of “the 100 […]