One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston is the top pick for June’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Marianne Cronin’s The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, and Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian, both available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer. The other picks: The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides Neon Gods, by Katee Robert The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris Our Woman in Moscow, by Beatriz Williams The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, by Car Sebastian To Sir, With Love, by Lauren Layne The Woman They Could Not […]
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Rivka Holler has been promoted to marketing coordinator for Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s. Senior agent Elizabeth Bennett becomes partner at the Transatlantic Agency. Catherine Cho has launched the new agency Paper Literary. She was at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency. Forthcoming Colin Kaepernick‘s publishing company announced their first title — but it’s still not his memoir. (That was due last year, after a deal with Harper One in 2016 and another reported deal with One World in late 2017 also did not result in a published memoir.) Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons is an […]
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At Harper Children’s, Luana Horry and Clarissa Wong have each been promoted to senior editor and Sara Schonfeld is associate editor. Vaishali Nayak is now senior manager, marketing; Katie Dutton moves up to senior marketing associate, school & library marketing; and Shaelyn McDaniel becomes assistant manager, digital marketing. Lena Reilly is promoted to associate publicist; Caitlin Lonning to senior production editor; and Kat Keating to senior digital production editor. In new hires, Erin Hamling has joined as senior production editor (she was previously a development editor at Oxford University Press). At Penguin Random House Audio, Ellen Folan has joined as director […]
May Picks
Amazon’s Spotlight Pick for May is Maggie Shipstead’s Great Circle (already, deservedly, the Indie Next No. 1 pick as well) and their Featured Debut is Brian Broome’s Punch Me Up to the Gods. Other picks include Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot, available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer. The rest of the list” Hail Mary, by Andy Weir The Wreckage of My Presence, by Casey Wilson Dial A for Aunties, by Jesse Q. Sutanto That Summer, by Jennifer Weiner Freedom, by Sebastian Junger Unsettled Ground, by Claire Fuller How Lucky, by Will Leitch The Last Thing He Told Me, […]
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Johanna Gustavsson has joined Politikens as head of foreign rights, based in Sweden and running Politiken Literary Agency along with responsibility for sales/exports of Politikens in Denmark and Polaris in Sweden. She was previously vp, senior scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates, which scouts for Politikens. Hachette UK ceo David Shelley has taken over as president of the Publishers Association in the UK, with Bloomsbury ceo Nigel Newton serving as vice president. Rhoda Ackerson Weyr, 83, the first woman literary agent hired by William Morris Agency in 1972, died on April 25 in Palm Beach, FL. Weyr created her own […]
Henkin’s Morningside Heights Tops June Indie Next List
The ABA named Joshua Henkin‘s Morningside Heights as the No. 1 pick for the June Indie Next list. Read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Malibu Rising, by Taylor Jenkins Reid The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston Animal, by Lisa Taddeo Legends of the North Cascades, by Jonathan Evison The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides Unsettled Ground, by Claire Fuller The Soulmate Equation, by Christina Lauren The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu, by Tom Lin House of Sticks, by Ly Tran The Chosen and […]