The AAP announced that Barnes & Noble chairman Len Riggio will deliver a speech at their annual meeting, which returns to New York, scheduled for March 9, 2011. In personnel news, Alexis Washam has joined Crown Trade Paperbacks as a senior editor, reporting to Tina Pohlman. She was an editor at Penguin. Washam will oversee paperback conversions for Broadway Paperbacks, Three Rivers Press, Crown Business, and Crown Forum, acquire select outside reprints, and acquire and edit trade paperback originals. At Knopf Children’s, Nancy Siscoe has been promoted to senior executive editor, relinquishing her associate publishing director responsibilities and focusing on […]
Awards
Awards and People
The shortlist for the Guardian’s First Book Award features works by Nadifa Mohamed, Ned Beauman, Maile Chapman, Kathryn Schulz, and Alexandra Harris.Guardian The Books for a Better Life Awards announced their finalists, and inductees into their Hall of Fame at the ceremony next March will include Grand Central publisher Jamie Raab. I’ve been assured that most attendees of the FT/Goldman Sachs business book award did receive winner Raghuram G. Rajan‘s FAULT LINES. (My bag was uncharacteristically light.) Melville House said on its blog that it will no longer submit its books in translation for consideration for the Best Translated Book […]
People, Awards, Etc.: Including A Business Book Award; Whiting Winners, UK NBA Nominees
Jocelyn Kalmus joins the Free Press as a publicist. She was an assistant publicist at Harper Collins. At Scholastic Media, Daisy Kline has been promoted to vp of marketing and brand management. Westchester’s Journal News has a nice profile of editor Pam Dorman: “She never gets recognized in New Rochelle, but in the publishing world everybody knows” her. Pop star Taylor Swift played the Scholastic auditorium, “where about 200 grade-schoolers and middle-schoolers, most of them girls, had received a break from class to see Swift talk about reading and writing. The children had been selected by their schools because of […]
People, Etc.
Nicole Dewey will join Little, Brown as executive director of publicity, starting November 15 and reporting to vp, marketing director Heather Fain. She has been executive director of publicity at Henry Holt. Director of the University of Texas Press since 1992 Joanna Hitchcock announced that she will retire at the end of February. She said, “I’ve been at the helm for almost a third of the Press’s 60-year existence and it is time for new leadership.” Erzsi Deà k is now scouting for both children’s imprints of La Martinière Groupe in France: Le Seuil Jeunesse and La Martinière Jeunesse. She works […]
People, Distribution, Awards, A Party, Etc.
At F+W Media, Kate Rados has been promoted to group marketing director, and both Rados and Kathleen Blackwelder are joining the company’s executive committee. Merriam-Webster has hired Caryl Schivley as vp, chief financial officer/chief administrative officer. She was previously vp, finance for Atlas Copco Construction Tools. The new Danish Hans Christian Andersen literature prize, worth almost $100,000, has gone to JK Rowling. Given to “a writer whose work can be compared to that of Andersen,” it should not be confused with the established Hans Christian Andersen medal, which is often pitched as the Nobel for children’s books.Guardian The AAP’s Young […]
People, Awards, etc.
Ryan Doherty has moved over from Ballantine to Random House Trade Paperbacks as an editor, reporting to Jane von Mehren. And Erika Greber has joined the Random House Publishing Group as assistant marketing manager for Random House, Spiegel & Grau, Dial Press, and The Modern Library. She was a marketing associate at Random House Audio. At Simon & Schuster, Kate Ankofski has been promoted to associate editor. Elsewhere in the company, Meredith Wahl-Jones moves over to the Free Press as a publicist, after working as an associate publicist at Scribner. Samhain Publishing has hired Heather Osborn as editorial director, reporting […]