Lynn Smith will join Ruckus Mobile Media in the newly created position of director of business development, effective May 23. Previously she was director of licensed publishing at Scholastic. Jessica Sindler has been promoted to editor at Gotham, where she has worked since 2003. Allison McLean has been promoted to publicity director for Portfolio, Sentinel and Current. Brigantine Media will launch two new imprints, with Voyage devoted to Vermont fiction and Compass specializing in education books, beginning in Fall 2011. The Children’s Choice Book Awards honored Rick Riordan as author of the year and David Wiesner (Art and Max) as […]
Awards
Awards: LAT Book Prizes and More
At the LAT Festival of Books, the paper awarded its annual book prizes: Biography Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken (Random House Current Interest Michael Lewis, The Big Short (Norton) Fiction Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad (Knopf) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Peter Bognanni, The House of Tomorrow (Amy Einhorn/Putnam) Graphic Novel Adam Hines, Duncan the Wonder Dog: Show One (Adhouse Books) History Thomas Powers, The Killing of Crazy Horse (Knopf) Mystery / Thriller Tom Franklin, Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter (William Morrow) Poetry Maxine Kumin, Where I Live (Norton) Science & Technology Oren Harman, The Price of Altruism: George […]
People, Etc.
Laura Hazard Owen will join paidContent as a staff writer covering books and digital publishing beginning in mid-May. Previously she was the editorial manager of Publishing Trends. Judy Courtade will join Perseus Distribution as associate director, client services. Her most recent position was sales director for Black Dog & Leventhal and prior to that she was vp, sales director at Random House Jared Bland will join House of Anansi Press as managing editor on July 4. He is currently managing editor for The Walrus. Simon & Schuster will take over sales, distribution and fulfillment in the United States, Canada and open […]
Egan and Mukherjee Among Pulitzer Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday. The winners in Letters are below. Knopf says they are reprinting 100,000 copies of the Egan trade paperback with the Pulitzer seal for delivery next week. Released in late March, the reprints will bring that edition up to 185,000 copies in print. A small reprint of 15,000 copies delivered yesterday, with a small amount of stock being reserved for indie stores. Spokesman Paul Bogaards says GOON SQUAD has sold approximately 25,000 digital copies since its original release, and he notes that Anchor expects an uplift for the four Egan backlist books as well. FictionA […]
People, Etc.: Joseph-Beth Auction Looms
The bankruptcy auction of the five remaining Joseph-Beth bookstores and their inventory will be held this Wednesday morning in Cincinnati. So far, the Lexington Herald-Leader reports, co-founder Neil Van Uum is the only known bidder, but one of the lawyers conducting the auction, Ellen Arvin Kennedy, says “we are very optimistic that we will have several bidders who will want to purchase the stores and operate them as they are operating now.” Initial confidential bids, for all or part of the company, are due today. Liquidators are expected to make low bids as well. Van Uum tells the paper, “I’ve […]
People, Etc.
Philip Patrick has joined Amazon as senior leader, rights and licensing. He was most recently with Crown as publisher of Three Rivers Press and publisher of ebooks and digital content. Severn House, Canongate Books and Granta Publications will now be digitally distributed by Ingram‘s Coresource. The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction has been announced, with the winner to be named in late May: SERIOUS MEN by Manu Joseph (John Murray) COMFORT AND JOY by India Knight (Fig Tree) THE COINCIDENCE ENGINE by Sam Leith (Bloomsbury) THE NEWS WHERE YOU ARE by Catherine O’Flynn (Penguin) SUPER […]