Sally Howe and Sarah Goldberg have been promoted to editor at Scribner. Rebekah Jett has been promoted to assistant editor, while continuing her role as associate publishing manager. Mensah Demary has been promoted to editor-in-chief for Soft Skull. Ada Zhang will join Running Press as an associate editor on March 8. Zhang was previously at Sterling Children’s. David Nenke has been appointed president of digital student solutions at Barnes & Noble Education. Previously, he was general manager of Amazon Explore. Molly Waxman has been promoted to executive director of marketing, fiction at Sourcebooks. Stephen Bedford has been promoted to senior marketing director […]
Awards
March Picks
Today show host Jenna Bush Hager’s Read With Jenna March pick is What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster. The Costco Pennie’s Pick for March is Whistling Past the Graveyard, by Susan Crandall. The PBS NewsHour-New York Times Now Read This book club chose Jessica Bruder‘s Nomadland for both March and April. Amazon‘s Spotlight pick is also Coster‘s What’s Mine and Yours. Their Featured Debut is Sarah Penner‘s The Lost Apothecary, which is excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer sampler, along with another of Amazon’s March pick’s Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed. Also on the list: […]
People, Etc.
At Grand Central, Wes Miller has been promoted to executive editor, and Seema Mahanian to senior editor, Rachael Kelly and Carmel Shaka each become assistant editor, and Kirsiah McNamara becomes assistant editor and digital & paperback coordinator. Albert Tang becomes vice president, creative director. Andy Dodds has been promoted to publicity director and Kamrun Nesa to senior publicist. Joseph Benincase becomes assistant director, marketing and Morgan Swift associate marketing manager. At Forever, Estelle Hallick has been promoted to associate director, marketing & publicity, and Sam Brody to assistant editor. Robert Messenger will join Simon & Schuster as senior editor, starting March 1, where he will “acquire […]
People, Etc.
Yezanira Venecia has joined Soho Press as assistant editor acquiring for the Soho Crime imprint. She was previously at Skyhorse Publishing. Shannon Fabricant has been promoted to executive editor at Running Press; Britny Brooks to associate editor; and Marissa Raybuck and Rachel Peckman to designer. Kara Thornton has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, Running Press and Black Dog & Leventhal. Adriann Ranta Zurhellen has joined Folio Literary Management as literary agent. She was most recently at YRG Partners and Foundry. At Sourcebooks, Katia Herrara has been promoted to senior manager of ecommerce and Morgan Vogt to online marketing […]
People, Etc.
Mary Marotta will move over to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group as senior vice president, group sales, staring March 8. She has been senior vice president, DK North America. She succeeds Chris Dufault and will report to Jaci Updike. Matty Goldberg, vice president of sales and acquisitions at Ingram Content Group, is retiring at the end of March. He was with Perseus Book Group for 17 years, and joined Ingram with the acquisition of Perseus’ distribution business in 2016. Sabrina McCarthy, vp and general manager, writes, “Matty and I have worked together for the past 23 years, and I’ve seen first […]
March Picks: Indie Next, Library Reads
The ABA named Chris Whitaker‘s We Begin at the End as its No. 1 pick for March. Also on the list are Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary and Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, both available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer. The rest of the list: Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner Brood, by Jackie Polzin The Rose Code, by Kate Quinn The Windsor Knot, by SJ Bennett Infinite Country, by Patricia Engel The Echo Wife, by Sarah Gailey Act Your Age, Eve Brown (The Brown Sisters #3), by Talia […]