Nate Lanman has been promoted to associate editor at William Morrow. Mia Council has been promoted to associate editor at Penguin Press. Awards The London Book Fair announced seven recipients of its International Excellence Awards. Winners included Findaway Voices in the US won the AudioBook Publisher of the Year Award, while Hachette UK won the Inclusivity in Publishing Award. The Rights Professional Award went to Nora Mercurio at Suhrkamp in Germany.
Awards
June Picks
The GMA Book Club pick for June is The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris, and the Read with Jenna selection is Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid. Those two books also comprise Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick (Reid) and Featured Debut (Harris). Also on their list is Danielle Henderson’s The Ugly Cry, excerpted and available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021: Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Songs in Ursa Major, by Emma Brodie One Last Stop, by Casey McQuiston One, Two, Three, by Laurie Frankel Somebody’s Daughter, by Ashley C. Ford Animal, by Lisa Taddeo Girl […]
People, Etc.
Andrea Hall has joined Beaming Books as senior acquisitions editor. She was formerly editor at Albert Whitman & Company. Bookselling Betsy Burton and some of her partners are selling their majority interests in the King’s English Bookshop in Salt Lake City, UT, to Calvin Crosby, currently executive director of the California Independent Booksellers Alliance. Effective July 1, Crosby will join part-owner Anne Holman. Distribution Oxford University Press will move their US warehouse and fulfillment operations to Ingram Distribution Solutions this fall. OUP has serviced fulfillment through their own 190,000-square-foot warehouse in Cary, NC, which will close. OUP USA president Niko […]
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Claire Eddy and Will Hinton have been promoted to editorial directors of Tor, Nightfire, Tor Teen, and Starscape. Also, Molly McGhee is promoted to assistant editor, effective immediately, reporting to Devi Pillai and Miriam Weinberg. Stacey Barney will join Nancy Paulsen Books as associate publisher, starting June 1. She was most recently executive editor at Putnam Children’s. Caitlin Tutterow will also join the Nancy Paulsen imprint; she was previously assistant editor at Putnam Children’s. Michelle Triant has joined Chronicle Prism as senior publicist. She was previously at Fortier Public Relations and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Brianne Johnson has joined HG Literary, bringing her list […]
McQuiston’s One Last Stop Tops June Library Reads
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston is the top pick for June’s Library Reads list. Also on the list are Marianne Cronin’s The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot, and Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray’s The Personal Librarian, both available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer. The other picks: The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides Neon Gods, by Katee Robert The Other Black Girl, by Zakiya Dalila Harris Our Woman in Moscow, by Beatriz Williams The Queer Principles of Kit Webb, by Car Sebastian To Sir, With Love, by Lauren Layne The Woman They Could Not […]
People, Etc.
Rivka Holler has been promoted to marketing coordinator for Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s. Senior agent Elizabeth Bennett becomes partner at the Transatlantic Agency. Catherine Cho has launched the new agency Paper Literary. She was at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency. Forthcoming Colin Kaepernick‘s publishing company announced their first title — but it’s still not his memoir. (That was due last year, after a deal with Harper One in 2016 and another reported deal with One World in late 2017 also did not result in a published memoir.) Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons is an […]