The Boston Herald assembles this list from “publishing experts,” with lots of quotes fom Amazon senior books editor Brad Parsons and a few from Jon Strymish, buyer/manager at New England Mobile Book Fair: 1. War, by Sebastian Junger2. Union Atlantic, by Adam Haslett3. Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes4. The Postmistress, by Sarah Blake5. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, by Michael Lewis6. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, by Seth Grahame-Smith7. The Girl Who Fell from the Sky, by Heidi W. Durrow8. The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest, by Stieg Larsson9. Walking to Gatlinburg: A […]
Awards
Awards: Borders Original Voices
The bookseller announced the winners of their annual awards yesterday, which include a cash prize and chainwide promotion: FictionThe Calligrapher’s Daughter, Eugenia Kim NonfictionShop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work, Matthew Crawford Children’s/YAAfter, by Amy EfawRelease
Pfeffer Joins East/West Agency, and More People News
Former svp, group publisher of Simon & Schuster Children’s Trade imprints Rubin Pfeffer has joined the East/West Literary Agency, heading up the East Coast office in Boston as a partner, digital strategist, and content agent, a new position “focused on developing and creating content for the 21st -century incarnations of publishing, both electronic and traditional print.” Pfeffer says, “The value that I hope to offer East/West and the clients that I represent is being nimble and opportunistic about how their intellectual property can be leveraged effectively in this dawn of electronic publishing. There are many more options for writers and […]
The 2010 February Indie Next List
1) Union Atlantic: A Novel by Adam HaslettThe Postmistress: A Novel by Sarah BlakeThe Girl Who Fell From the Sky: A Novel by Heidi W. Durrow The Bricklayer: A Novel by Noah Boyd Little Bee: A Novel by Chris Cleave Shadow Tag: A Novel by Louise Erdrich Saving CeeCee Honeycutt: A Novel by Beth Hoffman Ordinary Thunderstorms: A Novel by William Boyd A Common Pornography: A Memoir by Kevin Sampsell The Kingdom of Ohio: A Novel by Matthew Flaming Secrets of Eden: A Novel by Chris Bohjalian The Book of Fires: A Novel by Jane Borodale Settled in the Wild: […]
Sam's Club Launches National Book Club
The chain of warehouse stores will kick off their new book club with Beth Hoffman’s debut novel, SAVING CEECEE HONEYCUTT from Pam Dorman Books, “a spirited Southern tale that explores the indomitable strengths of female relationships as a young girl loses one mother and finds many others in the storybook city of Savannah,” which publishes January 12. The club titles will be “featured prominently at Sam’s Club locations,” which number more than 600 nationwide.
Costa Awards
Colm Toibin won the Costa Award for best novel for BROOKLYN, which makes him the favorite for the overall Costa prize, to be announced January 26. The other category winners were: Raphael Selbourne, Beauty (first novel)Christopher Reid, A Scattering (poetry)Graham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom (biography) Patrick Ness, The Ask and the Answer (children’s)Guardian