Katie Henderson Adams has joined Liveright & Company as editor, where she will acquire literary fiction and non-fiction. Previously she was an editor at Other Press. Daniela Petracco has been named editorial director of Europa Editions UK, which will launch in January with eight titles. Working out of their newly established London office, she will manage publicity operations, marketing and sales, working to build Europa Editions’ market and relationship with booksellers in the UK and Ireland. Petracco spent the past ten years as an agent with Andrew Nurnberg Associates. Multiple sources indicate that Bookish quietly laid off as many as […]
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Nancy Jensen’s The Sisters Tops December Indie Next List
Here are the ABA’s latest monthly picks: 1. The Sisters: A Novel, by Nancy Jensen The Angel Makers, by Jessica Gregson Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie Mourad: New Moroccan, by Mourad Lahlou Harbor, by John Ajvide Lindqvist The Drop, by Michael Connelly Family Legacy, by Jack O’Halloran Second Read: Writers Look Back at Classic Works of Reportage, by James Marcus (Ed.) Blue Nights, by Joan Didion BarnHeart: The Incurable Longing for a Farm of One’I Am Half-Sick of Shadows: A Flavia de Luce Novel, by Alan Bradleys Own, by Jenna Woginrich 420 Characters, by […]
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At Harvard Business Review Press, Sarah McConville has been promoted to publisher, responsible for leading all commercial aspects of the press including strategic partnerships, marketing and publicity, foreign rights, and global and domestic sales. She will also spearhead product development efforts. In addition, Tim Sullivan moves up to editorial director. At Random House, Frank Steinert has been promoted to evp, chief human resources officer. He is head of HR for the US division and for the company worldwide. Alyson Sinclair has been named publicity director at McSweeney’s, effective November 21st. She was most recently marketing and publicity manager at City […]
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David Goehring has joined Wiley as director of digital publishing for the professional/trade group. He was most recently director of Harvard Business Press, and before that held executive positions at Perseus and Pearson. Susan Fensten is leaving Oxford University Press, where she was a senior publicist, to launch Fensten PR, a small, independent book publicity firm with a focus on political titles. Director of Belge Publishing House and advocate for free expression Ragip Zarakolu was detained on October 28 by the Turkish government under the country’s anti-terrorism laws. He has run afoul of the government on several occasions since founding […]
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Consultant and former Bowker ceo Michael Cairns has taken a full-time position at SharedBook after working with them to launch their AcademicPub product. Cairns is chief revenue officer for the company, and will continue to focus on the development of AcademicPub–an online platform that lets educators create fully-licensed custom coursepacks, pulling together licensable publisher content, personal materials from their own computers and information from the web through an online interface. Angus Killick is joining Macmillan Children’s in the new position of vp, associate publisher, reporting to president Jon Yaged. Killick will coordinate publishing programs across the group’s imprints, lead the children’s […]
Announcements: Michelle Obama’s Book, Gaiman’s Audiobook Launch List,and Preparing for World Book Night
Crown said yesterday that their previously-announced April 2012 book with First Lady Michelle Obama will be called AMERICAN GROWN: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities. The $30 illustrated book will go on sale April 10. The publisher released the jacket design as well. Neil Gaiman’s previously announced audiobook imprint for Audible Neil Gaiman Presents is live today with five launch titles from Jonathan Carroll, Alina Simone, M. John Harrison, Keith Roberts, and Steven Sherrill. An additional eleven titles, all produced through Audible’s ACX service and which include introductions by Gaiman, will be released soon, with […]