Aliya King Neil will join Gallery Books as a senior editor on April 5. She was previously editor-at-large at Medium. At Hachette Book Group, Megan Fitzpatrick has been promoted to executive director of marketing & publicity for Hachette Audio; Barbara Slavin to senior director of digital sales and business development; and Mary Urban to associate director of digital sales. Terri Lancaster has been promoted to senior production coordinator, reprints at Chronicle Books. Rick Garcia has joined Harper Collins as director of digital advertising for the general books group. He was previously head of programmatic advertising at Penguin Random House. Connor […]
Awards
National Book Critics Circle Award Winners: O’Farrell, Leilani, Hong and More
The National Book Critics Circle Awards announced winners on Thursday evening: Fiction: Hamnet, by Maggie O’Farrell (Knopf) Nonfiction: Island on Fire, by Tom Zoellner (Harvard Univ. Press) First Book: Luster, by Raven Leilani (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Biography: Stranger in the Shogun’s City, by Amy Stanley (Scribner) Autobiography: Minor Feelings, by Cathy Park Hong (One World) Poetry: Here Is the Sweet Hand, by francine j. harris (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) Criticism: Marking Time, by Nicole R. Fleetwood (Harvard Univ. Press) Previously announced were Jo Livingstone, winner the 2020 Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing, and The Feminist Press at the […]
People, Awards, Etc.
LaSharah S. Bunting will join the Simon & Schuster imprint as vice president and executive editor, starting May 3, and acquiring nonfiction and fiction. She was most recently director/journalism at John S. and James L. Knight Foundation At Gallery Books, Molly Gregory, Max Meltzer, and Maggie Loughran have each been promoted to associate editor. Awards Carmen Maria Machado‘s In the Dream House won the 2021 Rathbone’s Folio Prize. Australia’s Stella Prize announced its 2021 shortlist, with the winner to be named April 22: Fathoms, by Rebecca Giggs Revenge, by S.L. Lim The Animals In That Country, by Laura Jean Mckay Witness, […]
People, Etc.
At Harper Children’s Jessie Gang has been promoted to design manager, and Cecilia Payseur has been promoted to senior designer. Phillip Loken will join University of North Carolina Press as associate digital marketing manager. Natalie Todoroff has joined Jane Starr Literary Scouts as scout. She was formerly at Foundry Literary + Media. Launches Founder of Twitter pitch event #DVpit and literary agent Beth Phelan has created DiverseVoices, Inc., a nonprofit for marginalized book creators. Phelan is president, joined by Kat Cho (vice president), LeKesha Lewis (treasurer) and Norma Perez-Hernandez (secretary). The programs team includes Nina Grauer and literary agent Peter Knapp. The […]
People, Etc.
Jen Long has been promoted to vice president, deputy publisher of the Gallery Books Group, reporting to Jen Bergstrom. Sareena Kamath will join Zando as associate editor on March 29, reporting to Emily Bell. She was most recently assistant editor at Mulholland Books. Caolinn Douglas will join as executive coordinator and assistant editor on March 29, reporting to Molly Stern and Emily Bell. She was most recently at Bookouture in the UK. Sarah Lyn Rogers has been promoted to associate editor at Soft Skull Press. At Simon & Schuster, Kaiya Muniz has been promoted to national account manager for Barnes […]
Oprah Picks Robinson’s Quartet
The latest selection for Oprah’s Book Club is Marilynne Robinson’s quartet of Gilead narratives: Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack. Winfrey said in the announcement, “As I was recently reading author Marilynne Robinson’s latest novel, Jack, I thought it would be wonderful to explore her entire Gilead universe through these four novels.” She adds, “Marilynne Robinson is one of our greatest living authors, and in the Gilead novels she’s written a quartet of masterpieces. The more closely I read them, the more I find to appreciate, and the more they show the way in seeing the beauty in the ordinary.” It’s […]