Julia Haav has joined Yale University Press as publicist. She was previously publicist in the New York offices of Europa Editions. At Chronicle Books, Emily Haynes has been promoted to senior editor, entertainment. Andrea Au Levitt has joined Reader’s Digest as a senior editor, acquiring and developing health and food books. She was projects director, Prevention Books at Rodale. Lara Hancock will move to Simon & Schuster UK Children’s as editorial director for picture books and novelty in early May. She is currently publishing director for picture books and gift at Egmont UK. The PEN American Center has elected Peter […]
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Kobo has hired Phil Wood for the new position of country manager, UK. Wood was at TomKat Consulting, serving the consumer technology, electronics and IT sectors, prior to which he director of Interead, which attracted attention for its inexpensive COOL-ER ereaders (before going out of business). Kobo general manager Matt Welch says in the announcement, “Having someone with Wood’s technology, commercial and eReading expertise positions us well for our planned growth in the UK. We have seen tremendous first six months here and with Phil as country manager I am confident we’ll see Kobo continuing to drive forward the ereading revolution.” […]
Indies Choice Nominees Named
The ABA has announced the finalists for their annual Indies Choice awards, with the winners to be named April 5. Fiction The Cat’s Table, by Michael Ondaatje (Knopf) Everything Beautiful Began After, by Simon Van Booy (Harper Perennial) 1Q84, by Haruki Murakami, Jay Rubin and Philip Gabriel (Trans.) (Knopf) The Marriage Plot, by Jeffrey Eugenides (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Salvage the Bones, by Jesmyn Ward (Bloomsbury USA) Wingshooters, by Nina Revoyr (Akashic Books) Nonfiction Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle Hamilton (Random House) Blue Nights, by Joan Didion (Knopf) Catherine the Great: Portrait […]
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Senior editor of the New York Times Book Review (and husband of novelist Amy Waldman) Alexander Star will join Farrar, Straus and Giroux as a senior editor on April 2. Before moving to the book review, Star was deputy editor of the NYT Magazine. Earlier in his career he was founding editor of the Boston Globe’s Ideas section and editor of Lingua Franca: The Review of Academic Life. At Canada’s Douglas & McIntyre, co-founder Scott McIntyre will give up his role as CEO on July 1, though he will remain actively involed and continue as chairman. Current director, operations and […]
Cheryl Strayed’s Wild Tops April Indie Next List
Here are the April picks: #1. Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, by Cheyrl Strayed The Cove: A Novel, by Ron Rash The Book of Jonas: A Novel, by Stephen Dau Sacre Bleu: A Comedy d’Art, by Christopher Moore Angelmaker: A Novel, by Nick Harkaway The Gods of Gotham: A Novel, by Lyndsay Faye The Beginner’s Goodbye: A Novel, by Anne Tyler The Book of Madness and Cures: A Novel, by Regina O’Melveny The Sleepy Hollow Family Almanac: A Novel, by Kris D’Agostino Some Assembly Required: A Journal of My Son’s First Son, by Anne Lamott, […]
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At Chronicle Books, Todd Presley has been promoted to executive director of human resources, McEvoy Group. Greg Mortimer joins Scribner Monday in the newly-created position of online marketing manager. He was formerly marketing manager of trade paperbacks for the Random House publishing group. Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Diaz‘s new story collection THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE HER, “about the heartbreak and radiance that is love,” will be published by Riverhead on September 11, 2012. Diaz will appear at BEA as one of the author breakfast speakers on Tuesday, June 5, and he will do a national book tour in the fall. […]