Matt Martz has been promoted to associate editor at St. Martin’s, continuing to report to Kelley Ragland, editorial director of Minotaur. Brigid Pasulka won the Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award for her debut novel A LONG LONG TIME AGO & ESSENTIALLY TRUE. Columbia University awarded the Bancroft history prize to three books: Linda Gordon’s Dorothea Lange: A Life Beyond Limits; Woody Holton’s Abigail Adams; and Margaret Jacobs’s White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880-1940. Penguin Children’s announced a one-million-copy first printing for the May release of John […]
Awards
People and Awards
At Grand Central, Ben Greenberg has been promoted to senior editor. He currently has two books on the New York Times bestseller list: I AM OZZY, and ABRAHAM LINCOLN, VAMPIRE HUNTER. Editor of Rick Riordan’s Percy Jackson & the Olympians series and many other titles Jennifer Besser will join Putnam’s Children’s on April 12 as vp and publisher, reporting to Penguin Children’s president Don Weisberg. She was most recently Executive Editor at Disney Book Group. At Dutton, Jamie McDonald has been promoted to senior publicist. Unbridled jumped the ABA’s announcement of May’s Indie Next picks, celebrating the selection of Emily […]
Mantel and Holmes Top NBCC Winners, and More Awards News
The National Book Critics Circle Awards went to: Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (Fiction)The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes (General Nonfiction)Cheever: A Life, by Blake Bailey (Biography) [all of the above correspond to directly to our compilation Best of the Best of 2009 list] Somewhere Towards the End, by Diana Athill (Autobiography) Versed, by Rae Armantrout (Poetry)Notes from No Man’s Land, Eula Biss (Criticism) In other awards news, the NY Public Library named the finalists for their annual Young Lions Award for a fiction writer 35 or under: Jedediah Berry, The Manual of Detection Katie Kitamura, The LongshotPhilipp Meyer, […]
People, Etc.
At St. Martin’s, Marc Resnick has been promoted to executive editor, after over thirteen years with the house. Peggy Hageman has joined the Overlook Press as an associate editor. She was previously at HarperCollins. Mark Levine has joined BookMasters Distribution Services as publisher relations manager, joining newly appointed vp of business development Tony Proe. Most recently Levine as an acquisitions editor for Barnes & Noble Publishing. powerHouse will use Random House Publisher Services for sales and distribution to the book and specialty trades. Gail Hareven‘s The Confessions of Noa Weber, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu won the Best […]
Asian Prize Changes Focus
For 2010, the Man Asian Literary Prize is “restructuring.” Once focused on works that had not yet been published in English, the new strategy is the inverse: the award will go to “a novel written by a citizen of an Asian country and first published in English in 2010. Translations into English of works originally in another language are also eligible, provided they are first published in English in 2010.” The cash award for the author has been raised to $30,000, and the translator (if any) will receive $5,000 separately.Prize site
The April 2010 Indie Next Picks
I Thought You Were Dead by Peter NelsonThe Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo GiordanoMatterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War by Karl MarlantesThe Tale of Halcyon Crane by Wendy WebbBite Me: A Love Story by Christopher MooreSecret Daughter: A Novel by Shilpi Somaya GowdaA Murderous Procession by Ariana FranklinSolar by Ian McEwanThe Creation of Eve by Lynn CullenThe Spellmans Strike Again: A Novel by Lisa Lutz31 Bond Street: A Novel by Ellen HoranNowhere to Run by C.J. BoxThe Bride Collector by Ted DekkerWhiter Than Snow by Sandra DallasAnthill by E. O. WilsonEaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New […]