Dan Ambrosio has joined Da Capo Books as a senior editor. He was at Wiley for the last four years, and has worked at Vigliano Associates and Warner Books. Deborah Ritchken has joined the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, working primarily in the areas of food, design and entertaining; pop culture; women’s issues; biography; and current events. She was with The Castiglia Agency. Random House is inviting the public to buy tickets (at $25 each, including breakfast and lunch) to an “open house” at their headquarters building in New York on November 2. The full-day event promises “access to upcoming titles before they’re […]
Awards
People: Mo Yan Wins Nobel
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded Thursday morning to Chinese writer Mo Yan, with the citation praising him for his “hallucinatory realism” that “merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” Mo, a pseudonym for Guan Moye, is one of China’s best-selling (and most pirated) authors in the country, and his work, according to the Swedish Academy, “created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.” Mo was said to be “overjoyed and terrified” […]
NBA Nominates Well-Known Authors and Books
The National Book Award reversed their recent trend and nominated a solid and mainstream set of books in the fiction and nonfiction categories. Among publishers, Random House garnered the most nominations in those two areas (though all in nonfiction), with a poignant posthumous nomination for Anthony Shadid. Winners will be named November 14. Fiction Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead) Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King (McSweeney’s) Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper) Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds (Little, Brown) Nonfiction Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain (Doubleday) Katherine Boo, […]
People, Etc.
Farrin Jacobs will join Little, Brown Young Reader’s Poppy imprint as editorial director on October 15, reporting to Megan Tingley. Jacobs spent the past six years at HarperTeen, most recently as editorial director. Tom Miller has joined the Business Group at McGraw-Hill Professional as executive editor. He was formerly executive editor at Wiley. At Perseus Distribution, Judy Courtade has been promoted to the newly created role of associate director, backlist sales, effective October 15. Jessica Schmidt has been named associate director, client services. She was most recently manager of publisher relations at Audible. Additionally, Ari Brenman joins as manager, client […]
Shapiro’s THE ART FORGER Leads November Indie Next List
The ABA has announced its November Indie Next List, which includes three titles — FLIGHT BEHAVIOR by Barbara Kingsolver, CONSIDER THE FORK by Bee Wilson, and THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER by newly-minted MacArthur fellow Junot Diaz — among the featured excerpts in our popular free ebook anthology of selections from over 30 big forthcoming books, BEA BUZZ BOOKS. With many of the excerpted titles still yet to release, if you haven’t checked BEA BUZZ BOOKS out yet, it’s as relevant now as it was when we released it before BEA. Pick up the “trade version” at the link […]
People: Digital Hires at Harper
HarperCollins has hired Adrianna Dufay and Brian Perrin, both serving as executive director, digital product development, reporting to Carrie Bloxson. They will “help conceptualize and develop new digital platforms and products for individual genres and titles,” across apps, e-books, social gaming, and video products, along with helping to harness “emerging product technology and capabilities in support of the imprints.” Dufay has been at JPMorgan Chase and AOL; she will work with Avon, William Morrow, Morrow trade paperbacks, Voyager, and HarperOne. Perrin was part of the start-up team at NBC Publishing most recently and will work with Amistad, Ecco, Harper, Harper […]