Cambridge University Press chief executive since 2002 Stephen Bourne will relinquish his position in April–but will stay with the organization thereafter as president, “focusing on international relations and helping the new management team with a range of transitional matters.” He says, “Those who know me well will recognise that this is a momentous step for me…. I look forward to continuing to work with them in achieving a smooth transition to a new model by which the Press will continue its remarkable balancing act between prosperity and outstanding service to a global public.” At Penguin Press, Virginia Smith Younce has been […]
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At McGraw-Hill Professional, Knox Huston has been promoted to senior editor in the Business Group. The Bent Agency is opening a UK branch, run by Molly Ker Hawn, who will be representing authors of YA and middle grade fiction exclusively for both the UK and US markets. She has had editorial roles at Chronicle and Dial and was national programs director for the Children’s Book Council. Rachel Fershleiser has joined Tumblr, where she specializes in outreach to authors, publishers, and literary organizations. She was previously community manager at Bookish. Anne Tyler has won the 2012 Sunday Times Award for Literary Excellence, […]
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Barry Landis is joining Howard Books as vp, associate publisher next week. He has been running a Nashville-based consulting firm, Landis Entertainment & Media Partners, and spent 20 years working for multiple divisions of Warner Bros., including serving as president of Word Label Group. Stephanie Beam has joined Sony’s Digital Reading Business Division as new merchandising manager, eBooks. Previously, she has worked as national account sales manager at Sterling Publishing and Random House. At Sony, she will manage the Reader Store site merchandising and act as relationship manager for publishing partners. At Egmont USA, Greg Ferguson has been promoted to […]
Awards: Finalists for Man Asian Literary Prize, The Story Prize, and More
The 3 finalists for The Story Prize were announced Wednesday morning, with the winner to be named at an awards ceremony on March 21: Don DeLillo, The Angel Esmeralda (Scribner) Steven Millhauser, We Others (Knopf) Edith Pearlman, Binocular Vision (Lookout Books) The Jewish Book Award winners were named, including Simon Sebag Montefiore’s Jerusalem: The Biography as book of the year, with Aharon Appelfeld’s Until the Dawn’s Light winning the fiction award. These seven novels (instead of the usual five candidates) made the Man Asian Literary Prize shortlist: Jamil Ahmad, The Wandering Falcon (Penguin India/Hamish Hamilton/Riverhead), Pakistan Jahnavi Barua, Rebirth (Penguin India/Penguin Books), India Rahul Bhattacharya, […]
People: Schwartzman Named Executive Editor at Dutton; Agent Hughes Moves to DCL, Costa Awards, and More
Next week Jill Scwhartzman will join Dutton as executive editor, reporting to Ben Sevier. She was most recently a senior editor at Hyperion. Amy Hughes is joining Dunow, Carlson and Lerner as an agent, specializing in non-fiction in the areas of history, wellness and health, cultural studies, and memoir. She was previously an agent at McCormick & Williams. Ethan Bassoff has joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin as an agent. He was previously at InkWell Management, after beginning his publishing career as an event host and manager at Brookline Booksmith in Boston. He will continue to focus on literary and commercial fiction, narrative […]
US World Book Night Line-Up Announced
World Book Night US has announced the 30 titles they will distribute for free on April 23. Anna Quindlen has been named honorary national chairperson. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian by Sherman Alexie (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (Speak) I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (Ballantine) Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger (Da Capo) Kindred by Octavia E. Butler (Beacon Press) Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card (Tor) Little Bee by Chris Cleave (Simon & Schuster) The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (Scholastic) Blood Work by Michael […]