Marcy Goot joins Kaplan Publishing as executive director of marketing. Most recently she was vp of marketing for National Lampoon, after working for multiple book publishers. Also at Kaplan, Don Fehr has been promoted to editorial director, trade, and Ron Sharpe has been promoted to executive director of production and manufacturing. At ESPN Books, Richard (R. D.) Rosen has been hired as senior editor. An Edgar Award-winning author of several mysteries starring a major league baseball player-turned-detective, he was most recently a senior editor at Workman Publishing. Thomas Nelson’s Dale Wilstermann will move over to running the nonfiction trade group […]
Awards
Young Lion Finalists
Here are the finalists for The New York Public Library’s 2009 Young Lions Fiction Award, given to an American writer age 35 or younger for either a novel or collection of short stories: Jon Fasman, The Unpossessed City Rivka Galchen, Atmospheric DisturbancesSana Krasikov, One More YearZachary Mason, The Lost Books of the OdysseySalvatore Scibona, The End
BN Picks Dog Mystery
Spencer Quinn’s DOG ON IT (Simon & Schuster) is the twelfth selection in the Barnes & Noble Recommends program, on sale tomorrow. Calling it “a dog lover’s mystery filled with laughs,” chief merchandising officer Jaime Carey describes it as “the first volume in Spencer Quinn’s new mystery series featuring the charming detective duo of private investigator Bernie Little and his dog Chet.”
March Indie Next List
Fool: A Novel by Christopher MooreAmong the Mad: A Maisie Dobbs Novel by Jacqueline WinspearSonata for Miriam: A Novel by Linda OlssonThe Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David GrannStarvation Lake: A Mystery by Bryan GruleyThe Writing on My Forehead: A Novel by Nafisa HajiSleepwalking in Daylight by Elizabeth FlockAll That I Have: A Novel by Castle Freeman, Jr.The Manual of Detection: A Novel by Jedediah BerryThe Missing: A Novel by Tim GautreauxA Grave in Gaza: An Omar Yussef Mystery by Matt Beynon ReesPatient Zero: A Joe Ledger Novel by Jonathan MaberryMy Abandonment: […]
BN Discover Finalists
Barnes & Noble announced the nominees for its annual Discover Great New Writers Awards: Fiction Zachary Lazar, Sway (Little, Brown) Gin Phillips, The Well and the Mine (Hawthorne Books) Benjamin Taylor, The Book of Getting Even (Steerforth Press) Nonfiction David Sheff, Beautiful Boy: A Father’s Journey through His Son’s Addiction (Houghton Mifflin) Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (Twelve) Nia Wyn, Blue Sky July: A Mother’s Story of Hope and Healing (Dutton) The winners will be announced on March 4, at a private awards ceremony.
Barry Wins Overall Costa
Irish writer Sebastian Barry missed out on the Booker, but now he has won the overall Costa Award for THE SECRET SCRIPTURE. Chairman of the judges’ panel Matthew Parris cited “a narrator had been created of such a transcendence that that redeemed all the other structural weaknesses in the book.”Wire