LibraryReads, the new promotional program in public libraries inspired by the Indie Next List and designed to share recommendations for newly published books that librarians love and recommend, has announced their inaugural September list. FANGIRL leads the list, which also includes Publishers Lunch 2013 Fall/Winter Buzz Book title BURIAL RITES. No 1.: Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell How The Light Gets In, by Louise Penny Night Film, by Marisha Pessl Help for the Haunted, by John Searles The Returned, by Jason Mott Burial Rites, by Hannah Kent Margot, by Jillian Cantor Songs of Willow Frost, by Jamie Ford Five Days at […]
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David Inman will return to Quarto in September as managing director of their UK publishing group, Aurum. He is currently sales and marketing director at Templar, prior to which he was sales and marketing director Quarto. Former senior editor at Ballantine and literary agent Pamela Dean Strickler, 53, died July 18 from cancer. Strickler spent sixteen years at Ballantine before leaving to start her own agency, specializing in romance, women’s fiction, and historical fiction. The Dayton Literary Peace Prize’s lifetime achievement award has gone to Wendell Berry. He tells the AP: “As a poet and fiction writer, my goal was to write […]
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Catherine Onder will join Bloomsbury Children’s on September 3 as editorial director, reporting to publishing director Cindy Loh. Most recently she was senior editor at Disney Hyperion. Loh says in the announcement: “Cat’s publishing vision perfectly dovetails with Bloomsbury’s plans for the future. We have three ambitious new lines launching next year and a fresh, new focus. I can’t wait for Cat to lead our team and grow the list in even more exciting directions.” The latest “cover reveal” is for Sue Monk Kidd’s January 7, 2014 release, THE INVENTION OF WINGS. The 14-title longlist for the FT/Goldman Sachs Business Book […]
August Bookseller Picks
The monthly bookseller recommendations for August are out, and Amazon and Barnes & Noble agree on five of the month’s new releases (including Rob Sheffield’s memoir, which you can start reading right now in our free Buzz Books ebook): The Telling Room, Michael Paterniti The Sound of Things Falling, Juan Gabriel Vasquez Lawrence in Arabia, Scott Anderson Turn Around Bright Eyes, Rob Sheffield Night Film, Marisha Pessl And at Costco, the August Pennie’s Pick is Amanda Coplin’s The Orchardist (first previewed in our inaugural Buzz Books ebook a year ago). The other picks are, from Amazon: Babayaga, Toby Barlow Manson, […]
Names from the UK — For Booker Candidates
While many are waiting on the name of the Prince of Cambridge, the UK’s Booker Prize released a list of 13 names — their longlist of possible contenders for this year’s award. The real list of nominees will be issued September 10. The longlist of 13 titles is mainly useful to help publishers prepare to adjust publication dates, since 5 of the books have not been published at all yet in the UK (only 6 are out in the US). And it can lay the groundwork for rights sales (or intracorporate publication arrangements), since four titles appear to have no […]
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At Other Press, Marjorie DeWitt has been promoted to editor. The Book Industry Study Group (BISG) announced three new hires, along with a new organizational structure “around our core competencies of standards, research, and education, and supported by our first real coordinated marketing effort.” Thomson Guster is coordinator of education and events, and Julie Morris is project manager, standards and best practices (she was project manager for the web production team at Columbia University’s Center for Digital Research and Scholarship). Jeanette Zwart is focused on marketing strategy, after working as vp, sales at Harper Collins, and current staff member Nadine […]