The Association of American Publishers (AAP) has hired Andi Sporkin for the new position of vp, communications, reporting to president Tom Allen. Sporkin will “develop and direct integrated communications, external outreach and marketing for AAP’s advocacy efforts.” Her responsibilities will include legal, legislative and regulatory communications; media relations; industry branding initiatives; public affairs; and management of AAP’s Communications team. Sporkin was vp, communications at NPR from 2005-2008, worked for CBS for 13 years, and also led communications divisions at Disney and Sony Pictures. National Book Network has eliminated six positions in their sales force, which company head Jed Lyons says […]
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People, Awards, Etc.: Cavin, Orson Scott Card, PM Hires, and More
Mystery book editor for Thomas Dunne Books Ruth Cavin, 92, died yesterday morning. She is remembered by longtime family friend Mike Shatzkin on his blog, who notes “what is unique about Ruth’s career is that she didn’t become an editor until she was past her 60th birthday and didn’t start her more than two decades at St. Martin’s until she was 70.” Also remarkable is Macmillan’s efforts to help Cavin keep coming to the office.Post Orson Scott Card‘s website reports that he suffered a “mild stroke” on New Year’s “He is now back home, retraining his brain so that the […]
Evison Tops February Indie Next List
#1 February Pick: West of Here: A Novel, by Jonathan Evison Little Princes: One Man’s Promise to Bring Home the Lost Children of Nepal, by Conor Grennan You Know When the Men Are Gone, by Siobhan Fallon The Fates Will Find Their Way: A Novel, by Hannah Pittard The Weird Sisters: A Novel, by Eleanor Brown The Evolution of Bruno Littlemore: A Novel, by Benjamin Hale A Discovery of Witches: A Novel, by Deborah Harkness The Death Instinct: A Novel, by Jed Rubenfeld Agent X: A Novel, by Noah Boyd Swamplandia!: A Novel, by Karen Russell The Red Garden, by […]
People, Costa Winners, and More
Mary Ellen O’Neill is joining Workman Publishing as a senior editor. Most recently she was publisher of Collins Lifestyle and editorial director of cookbooks/executive editor at Morrow. Cynthia Zigmund is now representing authors exclusively through her own company, Second City Publishing Services. Tamson Weston has left Disney-Hyperion to found Tamson Weston Books, an editorial consultancy. She will be working with agents and publishers to develop book projects and help new authors fine-tune manuscripts, proposals and picture book dummies. As of February Susan Sandérus will join Bruna in the Netherlands as commissioning editor. She has been at Fontein Publishers and worked […]
Digital Book World to Honor Best eBooks and Apps
At January’s Digital Book World 2011 conference, a new series of Publishing Innovation Awards will be presented at the opening ceremony on the 24th to “recognize the best ebooks and book apps based on their merits in the areas of origination, development, production, design, and marketing.” Awards will be given in five categories: fiction, nonfiction, reference, children’s, and comics. The judging will come from a panel of independent developers, ebook producers, and publishers. For this year’s prizes, the judges will survey the field and select honorees, though in the future DBW plans to create an open submission process for publishers […]
Moving to 2011 Lists, the January Indie Next List
#1 Pick: Left Neglected: A Novel, by Lisa GenovaA Lonely Death: An Inspector Ian Rutledge Mystery, by Charles ToddThe Poison Tree: A Novel, by Erin KellyThe Lake of Dreams: A Novel, by Kim EdwardsClara and Mr. Tiffany: A Novel, by Susan VreelandBattle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy ChuaBird Cloud: A Memoir, by Annie ProulxThe Radleys: A Novel, by Matt HaigUnless It Moves the Human Heart: The Craft and Art of Writing, by Roger RosenblattThe Year of the Hare: A Novel, by Arto PaasilinnaGideon’s War: A Novel, by Howard GordonToward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees and the […]