Gretchen Young will join Grand Central Publishing on June 25 as vp, executive editor, reporting to Deb Futter. Young has spent the past fifteen years at Hyperion, most recently as vp, executive editor. “I am thrilled that Gretchen Young is joining our team,” Futter said in a statement. ” The range of books she has acquired is most impressive in both breadth and depth and I know her editorial instincts will be showcased at Grand Central.” New Yorker fiction editor Deborah Treisman has won the Center for Fiction’s 2012 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of […]
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Bertelsmann has appointed Marcel Reichart to the newly-created position of evp, digital business development and partnerships, reporting to Thomas Hesse, effective October 1. Reichart is currently managing director of DLD & Ventures at Hubert Burda Media. Danielle Lynn has joined Rodale Books as publicity manager. She was most recently a senior publicist at Simon & Schuster. Kirsten Hall has been promoted to managing agent at Bright Group International, the company’s first full-time agent based in the US. Effective immediately, PGW will handle print and digital distribution for Entangled Publishing, Cameron + Company (as well as its Roundtree Books imprint) and Yosemite […]
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At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Angela Zurlo has been promoted to production manager for the Books for Young Readers and Paul Wiseman imprints, effective June 1. Navah Wolfe and Julia Maguire have been promoted to associate editor, BFYR. In addition, Richard Ackoon moves up to executive coordinator, Laura Roode has been promoted to associate art director, and Krista Olsen moves up to design associate. Knopf announced that in six weeks, they have sold over 10 million units (in all editions) of EL James’s three FIFTY SHADES books. They have printed 9.5 million books so far, available in 15,000 physical retail […]
Orange to End Prize Sponsorship; Commonwealth Winners Named
Cellphone company Orange announced that it will withdraw its support of the UK prize for fiction by women that has carried its name since the award’s founding 17 years ago. Co-founder and honorary director Kate Mosse makes the case to the Guardian (and future sponsors) that “the investment generates something in the region of £17.5m a year in advertising, and the cultural capital of the women’s prise for fiction is practically second to none.” This year’s winner will be named May 30. The Guardian notes that the prize money itself is supplied from an endowment, with the sponsor providing “the […]
Awards: Rea Award to Baxter; Carnegie Nominates Lauded Authors
The twenty-fifth Rea Award for the Short Story has gone to Charles Baxter. The prize recognizes a US or Canadian writer who has “made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.” Baxter’s works include six published collections of stories. The jurors wrote (in part), “Baxter’s stories have especially shown an acute feeling for the landscape of marriage, childhood, and art.” Announcement The new Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced the finalists for the two awards: Nonfiction Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie The Information: […]
People: Changes at the Top for Nebraska Book, McGraw-Hill Education
Mark Oppegard, ceo of bankrupt NBC Acquisition Corp.–the owner of Nebraska Book Co.–will retire after 14 years leading the company and 42 years of service in all. He will stay on as evp “during a transition period that’s expected to last several months.” COO since 1999 Barry Major takes over as ceo. SVP at the college store division’s Neebo brand Steven Clemente moves up to coo. He joined the company in 2010. Report While McGraw-Hill is in “the final stages” of their search for a new head for their education division prior to its spinoff at the end of the […]