Anne Kubek has joined the InScribe Digital as EVP, General Manager. She had been EVP of merchandising and marketing at Borders, spending 20 years with the company before leaving in late 2009. Meg LaBorde Kuehn joins Kirkus Media in the new position of vp of business development. Her most recently publishing position was coo of Greenleaf Book Group. Former Granta Books managing director David Graham has joined Aurum and its associated trade publishing division, where he will be setting up a new imprint, Union Press, which will focus on “serious literary writing”, specifically non-fiction. Former Granta staffers Alex Clark and […]
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Tea Obreht Tops March 2011 Indie Next List
#1 Pick: The Tiger’s Wife: A Novel, by Tea ObrehtTownie: A Memoir, by Andre Dubus IIIThe Paris Wife, by Paula McLainWingshooters: A Novel, by Nina RevoyrSing You Home: A Novel, by Jodi PicoultWhen the Killing’s Done: A Novel, by T.C. BoyleBringing Adam Home: The Abduction That Changed America, by Les Standiford, Joe MatthewsThree Stages of Amazement: A Novel, by Carol EdgarianCleaning Nabokov’s House: A Novel, by Leslie DanielsA Thousand Cuts: A Novel, by Simon LelicBlood, Bones, and Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef, by Gabrielle HamiltonThe Pioneer Woman: Black Heels to Tractor Wheels–A Love Story, by Ree DrummondInstruments […]
People, Awards, Etc.: Surprise Winner for the Costa, and More
The overall Costa Award went to poet Jo Shapcott for Of Mutability, prevailing over the favored Edmund de Waal memoir, The Hare With the Amber Eyes. Guardian Lucinda Blumenfeld has left Fletcher & Company and launched Lucinda Blumenfeld Literary Consulting (LBLC), an editorial and marketing firm for writers and authors. She will continue to represent select writers in both fiction and nonfiction. Plume senior editor Denise Roy is now serving as a senior editor at Dutton as well. She joined Penguin in 2009 after fifteen years at Simon & Schuster. Zachary Wagman is joining the Crown Trade group as editor on February 1, […]
DBW Kicks Off With Innovation Awards, 7x20x21
A packed crowd (helped, no doubt, by the drink-ticketed cocktails on tap for the first hour) turned out at the Sheraton Towers ballroom for Digital Book World’s opening ceremonies & reception. After brief remarks from F+W ceo David Nussbaum and a short speech from Harper Collins president of sales Josh Marwell on behalf of the Goddard Riverside Community Center, F+W president David Blansfield hosted DBW’s first ever Publishing Innovation Awards: Fiction: DRACULA: The Official Stoker Family Edition (PadWorx Digital Media) Non-Fiction: Logos Bible Software (Logos Bible Software, Inc.) Children’s: A Story Before Bed (Jackson Fish Market) Reference: Star Walk for […]
People, Etc.: Spence Leaves Quarto, and More
At Quarto in the UK, Piers Spence has stepped down from his role as director of co-edition publishing to run a farm in rural Devon where he plans to raise rare breed pigs and plant a vineyard. He will be replaced in February by David Breuer, chief executive of Royal Academy Enterprises, which operates the commercial activities of London’s Royal Academy of Arts, including its retail, book and magazine publishing operations. Spence will serve as a consultant to Quarto”for at least six months.” At HarperCollins’ Morrow-Avon division, Pamela Spengler-Jaffee has been promoted to senior director of publicity. She joined the […]
The 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalists
The National Book Critics Circle Award nominees were announced Saturday night. Since their selections generally track our composite Best of the Best of the Year lists and the reviews we aggregate at PublishersMarketplace, the two biggest surprises were the inclusion of 101-year-old Hans Keilson’s very-lightly-reviewed German novel, and the omission of Rebecca Skloot’s widely-loved The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. Going by our previously-published Best of…. lists, the winners will include Jonathan Franzen, Isabel Wilkerson, Patti Smith, Anne Carson and Elif Batuman. (Sarah Bakewell is the favorite in biography, though it’s hazier.) Additionally, Parul Sehgal is the recipient of the […]