Kevin Powers won the PEN/Hemingway Award for his debut novel THE YELLOW BIRDS. He will receive his award at a ceremony at the JFK Presidential Library & Museum on March 24. In the UK, Tesco has hired Gavin Sathianathan to head their ebook portion of their blinkbox digital media offer, to launch later this year. Tesco had purchased Mobcast last September as the foundation of their ebook program. They will offer digital books, music and movies under the blinkbox name. Currently working at Facebook, Sathianathan had worked as an intern at the previous incarnation of blinkbox (a streaming video company). […]
Awards
Fountain, Solomon, Caro Among NBCC Winners
The National Book Critics Circle Award winners were announced Thursday evening: FICTION Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) NONFICTION Andrew Solomon, Far From the Tree (Scribner) BIOGRAPHY Robert A. Caro, The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf) AUTOBIOGRAPHY Leanne Shapton, Swimming Studies (Blue Rider Press) CRITICISM Marina Warner, Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights (Belknap Press) POETRY D. A. Powell, Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf Press) Some of the suspense was deflated when, a little less than an hour before the NBCC ceremony began at 6 PM, NYT publishing reporter […]
People, Etc.
At today’s annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), Simon & Schuster ceo Carolyn Reidy formally took over from Cengage executive chairman Ron Dunn as chair of the organization’s board of directors. In the UK, Jo Unwin will join Doubleday UK as deputy publisher on April 8, reporting to Marianne Velmans. Unwin was previously an agent at Conville & Walsh, which announced it sold a 50 percent stake in its business to Curtis Brown (see separate story). Catherine Burke has been promoted to publisher, Sphere fiction at Little, Brown UK. At Penguin, Suzie Sisoler has been promoted to senior director […]
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Michele Martin will join the Gallery Books Group on March 4 as vp, associate publisher, reporting to Louise Burke. Previously she was founder and proprietor of MDM Management, which will now be assumed by CSG Literary Partners, and before that she held executive positions at Avalon, Langenscheidt and Doubleday, where she created and oversaw the Main Street Books imprint. At Penguin, Katherine Tiernan McCahill has been promoted to assistant director of the digital products group. In Canada, former senior executives at D&M Publishers Chris Labonte, Peter Cocking and Richard Nadeau have founded Figure1 Publishing, devoted to books in the art […]
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Patricia Arancibia has joined Apple as head of the iBookstore’s European operations. Previously she was editorial director, International Acquisition & Relations – International Digital Content at Barnes & Noble. In the UK, PFD agent Robert Caskie is taking on the additional new role of chief operating officer of The Rights House Group. Publicity director at Profile Books Ruth Killick is leaving the publisher after 11 years to establish her own PR firm in Bristol this May. Writer, educator and activist Monica Carter, has been named the Lambda Literary Foundation’s LGBT Writers in Schools program coordinator. The trickling of BEA author breakfast […]
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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 […]