Ann Marie Wong has joined Holt Children’s as editorial director. She was previously senior editorial director at Scholastic Book Clubs. Kendall Storey has been promoted to full-time editor at Catapult and Soft Skull Press, moving over from managing foreign rights and contracts for Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press. 2 Seas Agency will represent foreign rights sales for the publisher going forward. Elizabeth Worthy has been promoted to director, event management at Simon & Schuster. At Random House Children’s, Caite Arocho has joined as marketing coordinator. She was previously marketing and design lead at Outside the Lense. Natali Cavanagh has also […]
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Zola Mashariki has joined Audible as head of Audible Studios, overseeing the creation of original content, based in Los Angles and reporting to Rachel Ghiazza. Mashariki was most recently chief content officer for One Community (fka Good Films). Danny Vazquez has been promoted to editor at Astra House. Gracie Elliott has been promoted to associate editor, children’s at Workman. Shirley Ortiz has been promoted to executive director of customer service and fulfillment across all Workman Publishing imprints. At Amazon Publishing, Dennelle Catlett has been promoted to senior PR manager. Ashley Vanicek and Brittany Russell have each been promoted to publicity lead. […]
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Imprints Macmillan Children’s is launching Neon Squid, a new imprint “dedicated to publishing gift nonfiction books that make complex topics – from medicine to archaeology – accessible and exciting for children.” Joanne Clark, Fiona Macdonald, and Sam Priddy will serve as co-publishers, based in London and reporting to Sally Poulson, global operations director at Priddy Books. The first list will launch in winter 2021. Audio Serial Box has been renamed Realm and is expanding to release original audio shows for free as ad-supported podcasts, as well as adding a subscription option. Previously, its audio stories were available to purchase a […]
April Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight pick for April is Jenny Lawson‘s Broken and their Featured Debut is Of Women and Salt by Gabriella Garcia. Along with the Garcia novel, they select three other Buzz Books titles excerpted and available to start reading in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer sampler: Caul Baby, by Morgan Jerkins; Gold Diggers, by Sanjena Sathian; and Good Company, by Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney. The Good Sister, by Sally Hepworth The Last Bookshop in London, by Madeline Martin The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, by Dawnie Walton Mirrorland, by Carole Johnstone The Five Wounds, by Kirstin Valdez Quade Crying in […]
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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 […]
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 […]