Amy Tannenbaum has joined the Jane Rotrosen Agency as a literary agent. She was previously an editor at Atria, and will represent new adult, romance, and commercial women’s fiction authors. Adrienne Brodeur has left Houghton Mifflin Harcourt after seven years to become creative director of the Aspen Writers’ Foundation, a program of the Aspen Institute. She can be reached at Adrienne.Brodeur@aspeninstitute.org. An expanding Simon & Schuster UK has promoted executives Suzanne Baboneau and Kerr MacRae, and hired Russell Evans from Penguin UK for the new role of commercial director. Publishing director Baboneau adds responsibility for illustrated and sports titles, and executive […]
Awards
LA Times Book Prize Finalists, and More Awards
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced finalists in ten categories, with winners to be awarded at a ceremony at USC campus on Friday, April 19. Margaret Atwood will receive the Innovator’s Award while Kevin Starr will receive the Kirsch Award. Finalists, who share a fair amount overlap with our Best of the Best of 2012 lists for fiction and nonfiction, include: Fiction Jami Attenberg, The Middlesteins: A Novel (Grand Central) Michael Chabon, Telegraph Avenue (Harper) Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) Lauren Groff, Arcadia (Voice/Hyperion) Lydia Millet, Magnificence (Norton) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction David […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Brandi Larsen has joined Penguin as director of Book Country. Previously she was at the Chicago Tribune, where she worked on adapting the paper’s content for mobile devices and tablets, and expanding the scope of their business and their relationship with their readers. At Clarkson Potter, Anna Mintz has been promoted to senior publicist and Sean Boyles has been promoted to publicist. In addition, Catherine Cullen has been promoted to publicist at the Crown imprint. In addition to Steve Kasdin‘s ongoing role as director of digital strategy at Curtis Brown, he is now taking on clients for representation as well, […]
BN Award Nominees Announced
Barnes & Noble announced the finalists for their 2012 Discover Great New Writers awards, honoring the best works featured in their promotional program during the year. In this case, most of the nominees have already been well-discovered. The winners will be named March 6. Fiction Nonfiction
Haruf’s BENEDICTION Leads March Indie Next List, Plus February Amazon and BN Picks
Amazon and Barnes & Noble both posted their February “books of the month”–and both booksellers agree with the Indie Next list in selecting Herman Koch’s THE DINNER and Karen Russell’s VAMPIRES IN THE LEMON GROVE (as long as you have read her splendid SWAMPLANDIA! first). The WSJ also echoes the positioning of Koch’s book as “the European GONE GIRL” today. Additionally, Amazon picks: Wise Men, Stuart Nadler (their “spotlight” selection) Schroder, Amity Gaige After Visiting Friends: A Son’s Story, Michael Hainey A History of Future Cities, Daniel Brook Autobiography of Us, Aria Beth Sloss How Literature Saved My Life, […]
People, Etc.: Mantel Wins Overall Costa Prize
Hilary Mantel won the Costa Book of the Year Prize Tuesday afternoon for BRING UP THE BODIES, making her the first author to win the Booker and Costa for the same book. Judging chair Jenni Murray said the unanimous decision took “less than an hour”, telling the Guardian: “One book simply stood head and shoulders, more than head and shoulders … on stilts, above the rest. We had a really good discussion, like being at a high-powered book club, and I said, ‘OK, let’s have a vote on Bring up the Bodies’ and every hand went up.” Accepting the prize, […]