Yesterday Barnes & Noble named Katherine Howe’s debut novel The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane as their latest chainwide “recommended” title. Harper UK’s children’s division is making the same cuts to staff that were recently imposed on the rest of the company, with publishing directors Gillie Russell and Sue Buswell both leaving the company. But managing director Mario Santos tells the Bookseller “both Gillie and Sue have agreed to continue to work with us on specific projects.” But an update of the story says Buswell will join Random House Children’s at the end of June as part-time maternity cover for […]
Awards
July Indie Next Picks
The Angel’s Game: A Novel by Carlos Ruiz ZafonBorder Songs: A Novel by Jim LynchThe Case of the Missing Servant: A Vish Puri Mystery by Tarquin HallHow I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve HelyA Happy Marriage: A Novel by Rafael YglesiasThe Blue Notebook: A Novel by James A. LevineSworn to Silence: A Thriller by Linda CastilloShimmer by Eric BarnesBlack Water Rising: A Novel by Attica LockeLove Begins in Winter: Five Stories by Simon Van BooyThe Lace Makers of Glenmara: A Novel by Heather BarbieriYou or Someone Like You by Chandler BurrSo Happy Together by Maryann McFaddenEverything Matters! A Novel […]
People and Awards
The Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for excellence in children’s literature have gone to Terry Pratchett’s NATION for fiction and poetry; Candace Fleming’s THE LINCOLNS: A Scrapbook Look at Abraham and Mary for nonfiction; and Margaret Mahy and illustrator Polly Dunbar’s BUBBLE TROUBLE for picture book. Dan O’Connell, who has been providing publicity and marketing services to clients of The Strothman Agency since 2003, will now run a spinoff, Epilogue Media–offering those services for a fee to outside authors as well as Strothman clients. Consumers Union will distribute their book titles through Ingram Publisher Services.
World's Richest Children's Prize Launched, for Arabic Books
The new Etisalat Prize for Arabic Children’s Literature, worth approximately $275,000, was announced this morning at BEA. It is backed by the ruler of Sharjah and sponsored by the Emirates Telecommunications Corporation. The announcement sas the prize is “designed to preserve Arab children’s culture in the third millennium. The first winner will be named in November.
WSJ's Summer Read Selections
In their traditional look ahead at top summer books, the WSJ recommends these titles: NonfictionThe Food of a Younger Land, by Mark KurlanskyAmerican Heroes, by Edmund MorganYoung Woman and the Sea, by Glenn StoutThe Snakehead, by Patrick Radden KeefeThe Secret Life of Marilyn Monroe, by J. Randy Taraborrelli FictionThe Girl Who Played with Fire, by Stieg LarssonSouth of Broad, by Pat ConroyThe Secret Speech, by Tom Rob SmithThe Angel’s Game, by Carlos Ruiz ZafonMy Father’s Tears, by John UpdikeRavens, by George Dawes GreenLet the Great World Spin, by Colum McCannDo No Deny Me, by Jean ThompsonA Happy Marriage, by Rafael […]
People and Awards
Former svp and executive director of publicity and public relations at the Bantam Dell Publishing Group Barb Burg has launched a new company, barb burg ink, offering publicity, public relations, media training, media placement, publishing strategy and brand management services. Endeavor agents Kirby Kim and Rebecca Oliver and subrights manager Laura Bonner will join the merged WME Entertainment, according to the Observer. Australian author Christos Tsiolkas won the overall Commonwealth Writers’ Award for best book for THE SLAP, “about middle-class suburban Australia and its notions of child-rearing and acceptable behavior.” Pakistani author Mohammed Hanif won the best first book award […]