The New Yorker will inform authors being considered for their double issue celebrating 20 American writers under age 40 “on Friday, or Monday at the latest, whether they have made the cut,” the Observer reports. The magazine issue will have a June 14/21 issue date, landing on June 7. But don’t confuse the list with an idealized selection. The candidates were limited to those authors “who could provide The New Yorker with a piece of new, unpublished work” that the magazine could publish. Some authors wrote new material just to qualify for consideration.Observer The Children’s Choice book awards were presented […]
Awards
Briefs: Quirk Moves Distribution; Ingram Thanks Relief Contributors
Quirk Books will move their sales and distribution to Random House Publisher Services as of January 1, ending a nine-year relationship with Chronicle Books. Publisher David Borgenicht says “We’ve had an incredible partnership with Chronicle Books since we launched the Quirk Books list in 2002. Together, we have created many publishing successes, and I am grateful to have been able to team up with them. In this ever-changing publishing landscape, our new relationship with Random House will open up new and significant opportunities while building upon our previous achievements.” At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Kate Angelella has been promoted to […]
People, Etc.
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 […]
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