China Mieville won the Arthur C Clarke sci-fi award for a record third time, for The City & the City. In Canada, Jessica Grant won the Amazon.ca First Novel Award for Come, Thou Tortoise (Knopf Canada). The WSJ considers tonight’s Edgar Awards, and notes after surveying past results that “winners at tonight’s annual Edgar Awards, presented by the Mystery Writers of America, should relish the victory–the first Edgar is often the last.” The only author to win both best first novel and best novel during their career is Ross Thomas.WSJ
Awards
People and Awards
Sarah Knight will join the Simon & Schuster adult trade imprint on May 24 as a senior editor, acquiring both fiction and nonfiction. She was most recently an editor at Shaye Areheart Books, will begin her new position on May 24th. At Tor and Forge, Justin Golenbock was promoted from Publicist to Senior Publicist. Goldberg McDuffie Communications announced the promotions of Grace McQuade to managing director; Angela Baggetta Hayes to director of GMC Digital; Megan Underwood Beatie to deputy director of GMC Digital; Kathleen Carter to publicity manager; and Liza Lucas to Senior Publicist. Dennis Hayes joined National Book Network […]
Awards: LAT Prizes and IACP Cookbook Awards
At the LAT Festival of Books, the paper awarded its annual book prizes: BiographyLinda Gordon, Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits (Norton) Current InterestDave Eggers, Zeitoun (McSweeney’s Books) FictionRafael Yglesias, A Happy Marriage (Scribner) Art Seidenbaum Award for First FictionPhilipp Meyer, American Rust (Spiegel & Grau) Graphic NovelDavid Mazzucchelli, Asterios Polyp (Pantheon) HistoryKevin Starr, Golden Dreams: California in an Age of Abundance 1950 – 1963 (Oxford University Press) Mystery / ThrillerStuart Neville, The Ghosts of Belfast (Soho Press) PoetryBrenda Hillman, Practical Water (Wesleyan University Press) Science & TechnologyGraham Farmelo, The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of […]
Orange Shortlist Features Booker Winner Mantel
The Orange Prize shortlist was announced this morning in London, featuring: Wolf Hall, by Hillary MantelThe Lacuna, by Barbara KingsolverA Gate at the Stairs, by Lorrie MooreBlack Water Rising, by Attica Locke The Very Thought of You, Rosie Alison The White Woman on the Green Bicycle, by Monique Roffey Locke and Alison’s books are both debuts; Alison and Roffey’s books have not been published in the US yet. The winner will be named June 9.
People, Etc.
Ayesha Pande has officially announced the change of what’s left of Collins Literary to Ayesha Pande Literary, now with a new mailing address and web site as well. Westwood Creative Artists agent John Pearce is relocating to Victoria, BBC in May 2010, where he will establish a new presence for the agency. Pearce also become a shareholder in the company. Curtis Brown svp Emilie Jacobson, 85, died April 14 “after a short illness.” A brief notice says “a fall memorial service is to be announced.” Emily St. John Mandel remembers Jacobson at The Millions. Kendra Harpster is joining the Random […]
It's Not PC, But Making Tinkers Was My Idea
A lot of people have claims to helping “make” Paul Harding’s TINKERS work in the marketplace. The Boston Globe has a nice piece on the topic, though in mangling the chronology of things they confuse the record as much as clarify. And we’re still looking for the independent booksellers who helped recognize Tinkers was special early on, along with Bellevue’s distributor Consortium, to spotlight their roles even further. So here’s a little bit of a timeline: * As we first read in the Wall Street Journal, it was Jonathan Rabinowitz at Turtle Point Press who passed the manuscript to Erika […]