Ten Speed Press acting publisher Aaron Wehner now formally has the publisher’s job, reporting to Crown Publishing Group president Jenny Frost. Wehner joined Ten Speed in 1997, and Frost notes he “has been instrument in establishing Ten Speed as one of leading cookbook publishers in the country, and the cookbooks he has edited have received a remarkable 20 James Beard and IACP nominations, garnering 11 wins.” Jane Mayer‘s THE DARK SIDE: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals won 2009 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism […]
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June Indie Next Picks
Here are next month’s picks from the ABA: The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane: A Novel by Katherine HoweLast Night in Montreal: A Novel by Emily St. John MandelThe Strain by Guillermo Del Toro, Chuck HoganCrazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman OllestadFar Bright Star: A Novel by Robert OlmsteadThe Dark Horse: A Walt Longmire Mystery by Craig JohnsonThe Signal: A Novel by Ron CarlsonThe Earth Hums in B Flat by Mari StrachanInto the Beautiful North: A Novel by Luis Alberto UrreaIn the Sanctuary of Outcasts: A Memoir by Neil WhiteShanghai Girls: A Novel by Lisa SeeThe […]
People and Awards
Sheila Keenan joins Abrams tomorrow as senior editor, working on the Abrams ComicArts list, reporting to executive editor Charles Kochman. Most recently she was at Scholastic, where she helped launch their Graphix comics imprint. At the Penguin Group, Allison McLean has been promoted to associate director of publicity for Portfolio and Sentinel. She joined Portfolio in 2002, before the line formally launched. At Little, Brown Children’s, Lauren Hodge has been promoted to assistant editor. Bertelsmann has put Christa Gomez on the company’s supervisory board as employee representative. Aside from two women from the controlling Mohn family, Gomez is the only […]
People and More
Publishing veterans Gretchen Koss and Meghan Walker recently formed themarketing and publicity firm Tandem Literary. They had been colleaguesat Random House until last December at Spiegel & Grau, where Koss wasdirector of publicity and Walker was director of marketing. The newcompany “will work collaboratively to tailor a campaign that complementsthe publisher’s plans and enhances a book’s visibility across a wide variety of platforms.” Author of THE WOMEN’S ROOM Marilyn French, 79, died Saturday of heart failure.NYT obit Cambridge University Press has reduced their plan to cut approximately165 jobs in the UK down to 58 layoffs. Another 25 people have left […]
People and Awards
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade and reference division, Josh Harwood has been promoted to national accounts director, based in New York, and Beth Ineson moves up to director of field sales & distribution clients (still based in Boston.) As has been expected, Carol Ann Duffy was named the UK’s poet laureate, the first woman to hold the position in 341 years. Along with a small stiped, the honor comes with a “butt of sack” — 600 bottles of sherry to stoke the muse — which the Guardian says she asked for upfront after hearing the previous laureate Andrew Motion never […]
LAT Festival: Prizes, and Wind Damage
The Los Angeles Times kicked off their weekend festival of books with the naming of their annual book prize winners, which included: Fiction: Marilynne Robinson, HOMEFirst Fiction: Zoe Ferraris, FINDING NOUFYoung Adult: Terry Pratchett, NATIONCurrent Interest: Barton Gellman, ANGLER: The Cheney Vice Presidency Though this year’s awards presentation was downsized to the newspaper’s offices and not open to the public, LA Observed says “LAT publisher Eddy Hartenstein pledged publicly that the Times Book Prizes would continue next year, and at least some judges were already asked to return.” On Saturday afternoon, heavy winds knocked down a scaffolding on the UCLA […]