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 […]
Awards
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 […]
People, Etc.
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 […]
Chapman and Others Rise at S&S UK/International, As MacRae Resigns
Simon & Schuster UK ceo and managing director since 2000 Ian Chapman has been promoted to chief executive and publisher for both Simon & Schuster UK and International. (Chapman had already previously taken on oversight for S&S Australia and S&S India.) CEO Carolyn Reidy writes that “going forward, Ian will continue to apply his considerable publishing and leadership skills across all aspects of our UK and international companies as we seek an even greater level of coordination and growth across all our international publishing. He has assembled a terrific team to help him accomplish those and I know that wonderful […]
People, Etc.
Former Free Press editor-in-chief Dominick Anfuso will join Crown Archetype on July 29 as vp, executive Editor, reporting to Mauro DiPreta. Anfuso will acquire and edit titles for Archetype, Harmony, Crown Business, and Crown Forum. Former Hyperion editor Matt Inman also joins the company, this week, as editor for Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press. Additionally, consulting editor-at-large Heather Jackson has been named vp, executive editor for Harmony, newly reporting to DiPreta. Frances Foster, who has worked in children’s book publishing for 55 years and run Frances Foster Books, an imprint of FSG Children’s, since 1994, is retiring after a […]