Quarto COO Ken Fund will retire from the company on December 1, and will leave the board at the same time. He joined Quarto in 1999, originally as president and CEO of Rockport Publishers, before running the company’s US division for many years. He says in the announcement, “Being a part of Quarto for the past 22 years has been a wild adventure that I have enjoyed completely. This is the right time to retire as Quarto is in good hands and has a strong future.” Dominique Cimina has been promoted to svp, publicity, corporate communications, and author brand strategy […]
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Janet Hill Talbert will join Nelson Books as executive editor, starting June 14. She was most recently senior editor at Guideposts Books and Inspirational Media. Anna Cooperberg has joined Hay House as editor, with a focus on metaphysical topics. Previously, she was assistant editor at Workman Publishing. Jess Zimmerman will join Quirk Books as editor on July 6. She was previously editor in chief at Electric Literature. At Harlequin Trade Publishing, Justine Sha has been promoted to senior publicist, and Lia Ferrone has been promoted to publicist. At Books Forward, Elysse Wagner has joined as a campaign strategist; she was […]
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Nate Lanman has been promoted to associate editor at William Morrow. Mia Council has been promoted to associate editor at Penguin Press. Awards The London Book Fair announced seven recipients of its International Excellence Awards. Winners included Findaway Voices in the US won the AudioBook Publisher of the Year Award, while Hachette UK won the Inclusivity in Publishing Award. The Rights Professional Award went to Nora Mercurio at Suhrkamp in Germany.
June Picks
The GMA Book Club pick for June is The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris, and the Read with Jenna selection is Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Those two books also comprise Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick (Reid) and Featured Debut (Harris). Also on their list is Danielle Henderson’s The Ugly Cry, excerpted and available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Songs in Ursa Major, by Emma Brodie One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston One, Two, Three, by Laurie Frankel Somebody’s Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford Animal, by Lisa Taddeo Girl […]
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Andrea Hall has joined Beaming Books as senior acquisitions editor. She was formerly editor at Albert Whitman & Company. Bookselling Betsy Burton and some of her partners are selling their majority interests in the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, UT, to Calvin Crosby, currently executive director of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Effective July 1, Crosby will join part-owner Anne Holman. Distribution Oxford University Press will move their US warehouse and fulfillment operations to Ingram Distribution Solutions this fall. OUP has serviced fulfillment through their own 190,000-square-foot warehouse in Cary, NC, which will close. OUP USA president Niko […]
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Claire Eddy and Will Hinton have been promoted to editorial directors of Tor, Nightfire, Tor Teen, and Starscape. Also, Molly McGhee is promoted to assistant editor, effective immediately, reporting to Devi Pillai and Miriam Weinberg. Stacey Barney will join Nancy Paulsen Books as associate publisher, starting June 1. She was most recently executive editor at Putnam Children’s. Caitlin Tutterow will also join the Nancy Paulsen imprint; she was previously assistant editor at Putnam Children’s. Michelle Triant has joined Chronicle Prism as senior publicist. She was previously at Fortier Public Relations and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Brianne Johnson has joined HG Literary, bringing her list […]