Here are the May picks: #1 Pick: The Lola Quartet: A Novel, by Emily St. John Mandel A Land More Kind Than Home: A Novel, by Wiley Cash In One Person: A Novel, by John Irving Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk: A Novel, by Ben Fountain Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel, by William Boyd Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale: A Novel, by Lynda Rutledge All Woman and Springtime, by Brandon Jones The Uninvited Guests: A Novel, by Sadie Jones The Book Lover: A Novel, by Maryann McFadden Let’s Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir), by Jenny Lawson […]
Awards
Patchett, Eugenides, Hamilton and Obreht Take Indie Choice Awards
The American Booksellers Association announced the winners of their 2012 book awards. Author turned bookseller Ann Patchett is the “most engaging author,” noted for “her exceptional involvement and responsiveness during in-store appearances and for having a strong sense of the importance of indie booksellers to their local communities.” The Indie Choice winners are: Fiction The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Nonfiction Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House) Debut The Tiger’s Wife, by Téa Obreht (Random House) YA Between Shades of Gray, by Ruta Sepetys (Philomel) The […]
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Timothy Travaglini has joined Open Road Integrated Media as director of children’s acquisitions, reporting to advisor Barbara Marcus. Travaglini will help expand Open Road’s ebook acquisition of backlist children’s titles spanning young adult, middle grade, and picture books, as well as acquiring frontlist titles. He was formerly senior editor at Putnam Children’s. At Thomas Nelson, Russ Schwartz has been promoted to vp of independent Christian retail sales. Former deputy director of publicity at Holt Maggie Sivon has joined Amazon Publishing in New York as a publicist. Christine Manfield‘s TASTING INDIA was named the IACP’s cookbook of the year on Tuesday. Among […]
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Kate Travers will join Workman as director, digital business development starting April 11th, reporting to Andrea Fleck-Nisbet. In this role she will oversee our web properties and services, develop and maintain Workman’s online communities, and help to plan Workman’s overall digital media strategy. She was most recently at F+W Media, where she was responsible for executing digital strategy across 23 e-commerce and 18 community websites. Brianne Halverson will join the It Books and Harper Design marketing department as associate director of marketing beginning April 9. She was most recently director of publicity for William Morrow. Elizabeth Hanslik Psaltis has been […]
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The Crown Publishing Group announced a number of promotions. Rachel Klayman has been promoted to vp, executive editor for the Crown imprint, while Rachel Rokicki moves up to assistant publicity director, Crown and Hogarth. At Crown Archetype, Ellen Folan has been promoted to publicity manager and Caroline Sill moves up to publicist. At Chronicle Books, Alexis Watts has joined as marketing assistant. She was most recently an interim junior account executive at Colman Getty. Julie Otsuka has won the PEN/Faulkner Prize for THE BUDDHA IN THE ATTIC (Vintage). She will receive the prize at a ceremony to be held in […]
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Marysue Rucci will return to Simon & Schuster as vp, editor-in-chief on April 2. She was most recently editorial director at Putnam and originally worked at S&S from 1997 through 2010. “Marysue will be the leader and architect of Simon & Schuster’s fiction list,” said publisher Jonathan Karp in a statement. “She will supervise all our fiction acquisitions, build her own list of authors–both novelists and nonfiction writers–and provide counsel to our editors. Under her guidance we expect to be an industry leader, publishing novels of the highest quality and the greatest appeal. We are all delighted that Marysue is […]