Neil Gaiman’s THE OCEAN AT THE END OF THE LANE leads off the July Indie Next List of bookseller-chosen titles: #1. The Ocean at the End of the Lane, by Neil Gaiman The Illusion of Separateness: A Novel, by Simon Van Booy Letters From Skye: A Novel, by Jessica Brockmole Lexicon: A Novel, by Max Barry The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells: A Novel, by Andrew Sean Greer Whistling Past the Graveyard: A Novel, by Susan Crandall Amy Falls Down: A Novel, by Jincy Willett Crime of Privilege: A Novel, by Walter Walker The Curiosity: A Novel, by Stephen Kiernan […]
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People: Crown Realigns Watson-Guptill, Potter Craft, and Amphoto Imprints
Editorial director of Watson-Guptill, Amphoto Books and Potter Craft Victoria Craven is among several staffers leaving the Crown Publishing Group as part of a reorganization of the imprints under new reports. Craven, who has been with Crown since Watson-Guptill and Amphoto were acquired the imprints in 2008, and those who report to her will remain with the company for a transitional period, which ends on July 31. At that point, responsibility for the publication of fine arts and photography instruction titles published by Watson-Guptill and Amphoto Books will be reassigned to Ten Speed Press, under the leadership of Aaron Wehner […]
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Phoebe Yeh will join Random House Children’s Books as vp, Publisher, Crown Books for Young Readers on June 21, reporting to Barbara Marcus. Yeh was most recently editorial director at HarperCollins Children’s. ““I have known Phoebe for many years and admire her as a highly creative and versatile editor with an excellent track record for discovering and nurturing new voices,” said Marcus in a statement. “I am so pleased to welcome her to Random House, where her expertise in nonfiction and commercial middle-grade books will perfectly complement and further strengthen our list.” Genoveva Llosa has joined HarperOne as senior editor. […]
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Bill Harris has joined BookEnds Literary Agency as director of digital content. Formerly a senior managing editor at Penguin, he has most recently been a freelance editorial and web development consultant. In addition, Beth Campbell has been promoted to literary assistant and rights coordinator. Skyhorse and Start Publishing have finalized their joint acquisition of Night Shade Books, an agreement reached “following a spirited and public debate” among authors, agents, fans, and publishers. According to a statement, Night Shade had net sales in 2012 of approximately $1.5 million. In Denmark, Lindhardt and Ringhof has acquired independent Danish literary house Per Kofod […]
June Bookseller Picks
Amazon and Barnes & Noble agree on four titles in their “best books of June” lists, recommending: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman TransAtlantic, Colum McCann The Last Summer of the Camperdowns, Elizabeth Kelly Revolutionary Summer, Joseph J. Ellis Amazon’s spotlight pick for the month — The Son, by Philipp Meyer — was another title featured in our spring/summer edition of Buzz Books 2013, as was BN June pick The Astronaut Wives Club by Lily Koppel. (So far, an amazing 15 of the 28 books we featured right around Winter Institute have been named to monthly […]
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Wiley has hired John Kritzmacher as evp, chief financial officer, starting July 1. Current cfo and chief operations officer Ellis Cousens, who previously announced his retirement at the end of fiscal 2014, will “retain responsibility for certain global operations and oversee the company’s $80 million restructuring program.” Kritzmacher, 52, recently served as svp, business operations and organization planning at WebMD and was previously cfo of Lucent Technologies and Global Crossing. On Friday at BEA, the Publishing Hackathon awarded first prize to Evoke — which maps how characters in fiction are emotionally similar to each other as a way of discovering […]