Former publisher of William Morrow Lisa Gallagher is joining Sanford Greenburger Associates as an agent. She notes, “I want to apply my extensive marketing experience to help bring writers and their work to the widest possible audience across various media and formats.” Heide Lange at SJGA adds, “Lisa is that rare publishing professional whose talents include strong editorial insight, marketing expertise, and keen business sense. In other agency news, Dystel & Goderich Literary Management is opening a second office in Los Angeles in December, to be run by agency vp Michael Bourret, who has been at DGLM for 10 years. […]
Awards
Lists and Awards
Amazon has posted their “best of 2009 books” section, which includes their editors’ top 10 (below) and top 100 lists, along with top 10s for more than 20 genres, “customer favorites” (e.g. category bestsellers), and more: 1. Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann2. Strength in What Remains, Tracy Kidder3. Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel4. Brooklyn, Colm Toibin5. Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl6. Crazy for the Storm, Norman Ollestad7. The Girl Who Played with Fire, Stieg Larsson8. The City & the City, China Mieville9. Stitches, David Small 10. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind, William Kamkwamba Best of 2009 […]
People and Awards
At Rodale Books, Julie Will has been promoted to executive editor. He projects include having overseen their Biggest Loser books. Columbia University Press has hired Richard Gehringer as cfo. He spent over two decades at Oxford University Press, rising to svp and cfo, and more recently he has been Controller for The New York Foundation for the Arts. Publishing Technology has hired Martin Borbone and Anna Lister Cheese for their client management team, in the US and UK respectively. Liaquat Ahamed‘s LORDS OF FINANCE: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World won the Financial Times and […]
The Year Is Over, As PW Names their 10 Best of 2009
It’s an idiosyncratic list, including two NBA nominees: NonfictionThe Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science, by Richard HolmesCheever: A Life, by Blake BaileyA Fiery Peace in a Cold War: Bernard Schriever and the Ultimate Weapon, by Neil SheehanStitches: A Memoir, by David Small Shop Class as Soulcraft, by Matthew CrawfordThe Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon, David Grann FictionAwait Your Reply, by Dan ChaonBig Machine, by Victor LaValleJeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, by Geoff DyerIn Other Rooms, Other Wonders, by Daniyal Mueenuddin USAT
People, Awards and More
Andrews McMeel has hired Linda Jones as svp of their calendar and greeting cardand Accord Publishing divisions, reporting to ceo Hugh Andrews. Jones had been svp of merchandising at Borders, overseeing children’s books and toys, newsstands, games, calendars, music and movies. Veronica Wasserman joins Abrams Children’s and Amulet Books as license and brand Manager. Previously she worked in the licensing department at Penguin Children’s, for Grosset & Dunlap and Price Stern Sloan. Bloomsbury has hired Patti Ratchford as creative director for their adult line, starting in November. She has had a distinguished freelance career over the past ten years after […]
People and More
The Reece Halsey North, Reece Halsey New York and Reece Halsey Paris literary agencies have melding into Kimberley Cameron & Associates, with the same staff and offices (new contacts are at the site: www.KimberleyCameron.com). Penguin UK managing director Helen Fraser will retire from the publisher at the end of the year. She is going to become chief executive of the Girls’ Day School Trust, and will also join the board of Frances Lincoln as a non-executive director. The Guardian Children’s Fiction prize has gone to Mal Peet‘s EXPOSURE.