John Crutcher, who co-founded Bloomberg Press and was most recently global director of trade sales, has left Bloomberg LP following the press’s partnership with Wiley and can be reached at jcrutcher@gmail.com. The Toby Press laid off editor Deborah Meghnagi Bailey, who will now work for them freelance, and has canceled three books from its fall list of six or seven titles. Owner Matthew Miller says that following the acquisition of Koren Publishers Jerusalem and Maggid Books, “because we’ve got so many things going on, we can’t afford to do the kind of things we were doing before, when we could […]
Awards
The June 2010 Indie Next List
#1: The Passage by Justin CroninBackseat Saints by Joshilyn JacksonThe Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee BenderThe Madonnas of Echo Park by Brando SkyhorseFirst Contact: Or, It’s Later Than You Think by Evan ManderySo Cold the River by Michael KorytaJunkyard Dogs: A Walt Longmire Mystery by Craig JohnsonThe Marrowbone Marble Company by Glenn TaylorTake Good Care of the Garden and the Dogs: Family, Friendships, and Faith in Small-Town Alaska by Heather LendeSeven Year Switch by Claire CookThe Burning Wire: A Lincoln Rhyme Novel by Jeffery DeaverA Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer EganWho Fears Death by Nnedi OkoraforMy […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Courtney Young has been promoted to editor at Portfolio, Sentinel and Current. The Copyright Clearance Center has named veteran attorney Iris Geik as associate general counsel. She was in-house counsel at WGBH and, since 1994, had served as an outside counsel to Reed Elsevier and other organizations on legal and copyright policy issues. Judges have been named for the 2010 National Book Awards and publishers can (and must) request entry guidelines. “The postmark deadline for the Awards entry form is June 15.” In vague news about forthcoming books, St. Martin’s will publish Andrew Morton‘s embargoed Angelina Jolie Bio on August […]
Latest Barnes & Noble "Recommends": Nancy Pickard Novel
The bookseller has selected Nancy Pickard’s just-released THE SCENT OF RAIN AND LIGHTNING from Ballantine as their latest promotional “mail selection.” CFO Jaime Carey says in the announcement it “grabs readers with the main character’s personal struggle with loss. Riveting and dynamic, this moving novel will have readers enthralled from beginning to end.” The sixteenth selection in the program, it’s their first pick since Louise Penny’s THE BRUTAL TELLING last September. Release
Awards, People and More
Colman Andrews won the James Beard Foundation’s cookbook of the year award for THE COUNTRY COOKING OF IRELAND as Claudia Roden‘s A BOOK OF MIDDLE EASTERN FOOD entered the cookbook hall of fame. Click through for the 11 category winners, including Thomas Keller‘s AD HOC AT HOME for the general cooking award.Full list Amanda Patten has joined Quirk Packaging as editor. She had been at Touchstone Fireside division for eight years. Jessica Krakoski will join Cave Henricks Communications as a publicity manager in May and will relocate to the company’s Austin headquarters in August. Most recently she was publicist at […]
People, Awards, Etc.
At Simon & Schuster Children’s Alexandra Penfold has been promoted to editor, and Julia Maguire, Navah Wolfe and Lydia Frost have all moved up to assistant editor, while Kimberly Boyer is now assistant editor of Little Simon and Jessica Echeverria is assistant editor at Simon Spotlight. In other promotions, Catharine Sotzing is now associate marketing manager, education & library; Michael McCartney and Nick Sciacca both moved up to senior designer; and Cara Petrus was promoted to associate art director. Naomi Benaron‘s RUNNING THE RIFT won $25,000 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, “the largest monetary prize for unpublished fiction in North America,” […]