The ABA chose The Paris Library by Janet Skeslien Charles as its No. 1 pick for February’s Indie Next List. Also on the list is Vendela Vida’s We Run the Tides, excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler. The rest of the list: The Four Winds, by Kristin Hannah The Survivors, by Jane Harper Milk Fed, by Melissa Broder Milk Blood Heat, by Dantiel W. Moniz Fake Accounts, by Lauren Oyler The Kindest Lie, by Nancy Johnson The Unwilling, by John Hart The Removed, by Brandon Hobson Send for Me, by Lauren Fox Zorrie, […]
Awards
January Picks
The Pennie’s Pick at Costco is The Mystery of Mrs. Christie by Marie Benedict. Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for January is Mateo Askaripour‘s Black Buck and their Featured Debut is Robert Jones Jr.‘s The Prophets. The latter is excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter anthology. The rest of their monthly picks: Waiting for the Night Song, by Julie Carrick Dalton Outlawed, by Anna North Better Luck Next Time, by Julia Claiborne Johnson The Mystery of Mrs. Christie, by Marie Benedict Marion Lane and the Midnight Murder, by T.A. Willberg Nine Days, by Stephen Kendrick and […]
Briefs
People Robin Cutler has joined LMBPN Publishing as president of worldwide publishing. Cutler previously worked for Ingram Content Group for over nine years, leading the development and launch of IngramSpark. At Canongate, Joanna Lord has been promoted to head of UK and digital sales; Nadine Luchsinger to sales operations manager; and Katalina Watt to audio and digital executive. Viet Thanh Nguyen wrote a piece for the New York Times exploring the future of literature post-Trump. He asks, in 2021, “will writers, especially white writers, take a deep breath of relief and retreat back to the politics of the apolitical, which […]
January Library Reads
Rachel Hawkins’ The Wife Upstairs tops January’s Library Reads list. Also on the list is Ashley Audrain’s The Push, excerpted and available in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter anthology. The rest of the picks: The Children’s Blizzard, by Melanie Benjamin The Ex Talk, by Rachel Lynn Solomon The House on Vesper Sands, by Paraic O’Donnell Outlawed, by Anna North The Perfect Guests, by Emma Rous Remote Control, by Nnedi Okorafor Shipped, by Angie Hockman Siri, Who Am I?, by Sam Tschida
People, Etc.
Colin Dickerman will join Grand Central as vp, editorial director/nonfiction, on January 19, 2021. He was most recently executive editor at Farrar, Straus. Emma Bal will join the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency as a nonfiction agent on February 1. She was previously head of publicity for nonfiction at Bloomsbury UK. At UNC Press, publicity director Gina Mahalek is retiring after 20 years. Peter L. Perez will join in January in the newly created position of director of public relations and communications. He was most recently public relations and communications director at University of California Press. Sonya Bonczek […]
Goodreads Choice Winners
Goodreads announced the winners of their Choice Awards based on online voting in 20 categories. Winners include titles from Matt Haig, Brit Bennett, and Kiley Reid, all excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2020 samplers. (Haig beat Fredrik Backman’s Anxious People by only 5 votes.) Here are the category winners, sorted by vote totals: The Vanishing Half, by Brit Bennett (Historical Fiction, 102,626 votes) House of Earth and Blood, by Sarah J. Maas (Fantasy, 95,084 votes) Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Horror, 85,626 votes) A Promised Land, by Barack Obama (Memoir & Autobiography, 81,284 votes) The Guest List, […]