In the latest personnel change at the Simon & Schuster imprint–which announced a hiring earlier this week–editor Sarah Hochman abruptly told people yesterday via e-mail that she was leaving the company at the end of the day. Others at S&S say she was fired, but the company declined to confirm that. She can be reached at sahochman@gmail.com. Elsewhere at S&S, Anne Rogers has been hired as director, specialty wholesale and mail order. She was a director in special sales at Sterling. Jeff Gerecke has left the Gina Maccoby Literary Agency after 5 years there to start the G Agency, and […]
Awards
Center for Fiction Renames Prize, Announces Shortlist; Thurber Nominees Named
The Center for Fiction (previously the Mercantile Library) has changed the name of their first novel prize–originally the John Sargent Sr. prize when launched in 2006–to the Flaherty-Dunnan Prize, due to support from board member and writer Nancy Dunnan and honoring her late father Ray Flaherty, also a writer. The seven nominated debut novels are: Beneath the Lion’s Gaze, by Maaza MengisteThe Invisible Bridge, by Julie OrringerMatterhorn, by Karl MarlantesMr. Peanut, by Adam Ross The Quickening, by Michelle HooverThe Report, by Jessica Francis KaneThis is Just Exactly Like You, by Drew Perry In other awards news, the Thurber Prize for […]
“Room” Tops September 2010 Indie Next List
Room: A Novel by Emma DonghueThe Gendarme: A Novel by Mark T. MustianApe House: A Novel by Sara GruenThe Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival by John VaillantThe Good Daughters: A Novel by Joyce MaynardThe Lady Matador’s Hotel: A Novel by Cristina GarciaRussian Winter: A Novel by Daphne KalotayJuliet: A Novel by Anne FortierI’d Know You Anywhere: A Novel by Laura LippmanAn Impartial Witness: A Bess Crawford Mystery by Charles ToddA Secret Kept by Tatiana de RosnayVermilion Drift: A Novel by William Kent KruegerFreedom: A Novel by Jonathan FranzenHow to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A […]
Booker Longlist Announced
The Booker Prize longlist was announced yesterday. The list will be whittled to six on September 7, and the winner will be named on October 12. As helpfully sorted below, four of the titles are scheduled for US publication over the next three months, and three have no announced US publication date. In a Booker first, Damon Galgut’s novel does not have a US print release date yet, but is available now from Amazon Kindle. Peter Carey, Parrot and Olivier in AmericaAndrea Levy, The Long SongDavid Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet Lisa Moore, February Christos Tsiolkas, The […]
People, Etc.
Michelle Andelman has joined Regal Literary, where she will represent children’s fiction. Previously she worked as a foreign rights scout and with the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Roger Jon Ellory has won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for A Simple Act of Violence (Orion)The Guardian Booksource will shut down its Irish subsidiary CMD Booksource this fall, citing “very difficult trading conditions.”The Bookseller
The August 2010 Indie Next List
The Hanging Tree: A Starvation Lake Mystery by Bryan GruleyThe Tower, the Zoo, and the Tortoise: A Novel by Julia StuartLet’s Take the Long Way Home: A Memoir of Friendship by Gail CaldwellHeart of Lies: A Novel by M.L. MalcomSuper Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary ShteyngartA Dog’s Purpose: A Novel by W. Bruce CameronBurn: An Anna Pigeon Novel by Nevada BarrIn Harm’s Way: A Novel by Ridley PearsonThe Personal History of Rachel DuPree: A Novel by Ann WeisgarberDisplaced Persons: A Novel by Ghita SchwarzThe Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes Gather to Solve the World’s Most […]