Philip Patrick has joined Amazon as senior leader, rights and licensing. He was most recently with Crown as publisher of Three Rivers Press and publisher of ebooks and digital content. Severn House, Canongate Books and Granta Publications will now be digitally distributed by Ingram‘s Coresource. The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been announced, with the winner to be named in late May: SERIOUS MEN by Manu Joseph (John Murray) COMFORT AND JOY by India Knight (Fig Tree) THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE by Sam Leith (Bloomsbury) THE NEWS WHERE YOU ARE by Catherine O’Flynn (Penguin) SUPER […]
Awards
Mehta Honored at LBF
At a lunchless lunchtime presentation at the London Book Fair today, longtime Knopf Publishing Group chairman and editor-in-chief Sonny Mehta was honored with the LBF’s Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing. In accepting the honor, Mehta said: “My own view is that awards should be given to writers, not publishers, so today I want to celebrate the writers I’ve had a hand in publishing, recognize the agents who brought their works to me, and trumpet the heroic efforts of my colleagues, first at Pan and Picador, and now at Knopf and Doubleday.” More broadly, Mehta suggested that “the universality and […]
Orange Prize, IMPAC Shortlists
The Orange Prize shortlist was announced yesterday: Emma Donoghue, RoomAminatta Forna, The Memory of Love Emma Henderson, Grace Williams Says it Loud Nicole Krauss, Great House Téa Obreht, The Tiger’s Wife Kathleen Winter, Annabel Release The IMPAC Dublin Literary Award shortlist of 10 authors includes Colum McCann,z Yiyun Li, William Trevor and Joyce Carol Oates. Full List
People: Freese Leaves NBN; Burtenshaw Moves Up at Reed; and More
National Book Network president Rich Freese has left the company. His last day was Friday, April 8. President of NBN parent company Rowman & Littlefield Jed Lyons told us over the weekend that Freese’s departure was “very amicable” and the result of NBN’s announcement back in January that they would reduce their number of distribution clients. “We’ve been talking about it for weeks,” Lyons explained. “Since Rich’s principal role was in working on new business development, it didn’t make sense for him and the company to continue working together.” Lyons said there will be no additional changes to NBN’s executive […]
BEA Books to be Buzzed
BEA organizers have announced selections for an expanded three “buzz” book panels for this year’s convention, with one panel each day starting on Monday, May 23. This year’s adult panel is nearly all debut fiction, and the roster includes a middle grade group for the first time. Here are the lists: Editors BuzzTHE ART OF FIELDING by Chad Harbach, Little, Brown and CompanyPresented by Michael Pietsch THE NIGHT CIRCUS by Erin Morgenstern, Doubleday Presented by Alison Callahan THE UNDERSIDE OF JOY by Sere Prince Halverson, Dutton Presented by Denise Roy RUNNING THE RIFT by Naomi Benaron, Algonquin Presented by Kathy […]
ROOM and UNBROKEN Top Indie Choice Awards
Emma Donoghue’s ROOM has been selected by booksellers as the fiction winner of the ABA’s Indie Choice awards, with Laura Hillenbrand’s UNROKEN claiming the prize for nonfiction. Karl Malantes’ MATTERHORN was picked as adult debut book of the year, and Jennifer Donnelly’s REVOLUTION was the young adult winner. Tom Angleberger’s The Strange Case of Origami Yoda was the middle reader winner of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Award, and Peter Brown’s Children Make Terrible Pets won the same award in the picture book category. ABA member booksellers selected Laurie Halse Anderson as Most Engaging Author, “for her exceptional involvement and responsiveness […]