Awards Max Gross‘s novel The Lost Shtetl won the Association of Jewish Libraries Jewish Fiction Award. Nicole Krauss’s To Be a Man and Colum McCann’s Apeirogon were selected as honor books. Bookselling A number of large UK retailers, including Waterstones, have yet again called on the government to reduce or remove their business rates (a tax on property used for business). Waterstones ceo James Daunt said in the Sunday Times,”The government’s failure to do anything on business rates is mind-boggling … how long can they go on year after year, wringing their hands and saying, ‘We’re thinking about it’? It’s pathetic.'” Daunt […]
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People, Etc.
At Macmillan Children’s, Kate Avino has been promoted to assistant editor, Odd Dot; Foyinsi Adegbonmire to associate editor, Feiwel and Friends; Samia Fakih to assistant editor, First Second Books; Kiara Valdez to associate editor, First Second Books; Trisha de Guzman to editor, FSG Children’s; Allegra Green to marketing manager; Dawn Ryan to executive managing editor; and Aurora Parlagreco to associate art director. Miyako Singer has been promoted to publishing operations associate at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. Awards The ALA’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence were given to Deacon King Kong by James McBride and Fathoms: The World in the Whale! by Rebecca Giggs. […]
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Macmillan announced a restructuring of its central digital marketing team. Cristina Gilbert has been promoted to senior vice president, publishing and marketing strategy, reporting to Jon Yaged. Newly reporting to Gilbert will be Cara Chirichella, vp, digital marketing & technology and Jacob Fanning, senior director, email marketing and CRM. The evp, marketing & consumer strategy role is being eliminated, and Jeff Carroll will leave Macmillan. Hillary Scarbrough has been promoted to vp, business systems. Newly reporting to Scarbrough will be Clark Fife, senior director, metadata services. On the trade finance team, Jason Arvelo, vp, data science & analytics, will now […]
February Picks
Jenna Bush Hager chose two titles for the Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club: Send For Me by Lauren Fox and The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. The PBS NewsHour NYT Now Read This pick for February is Charles Yu‘s Interior Chinatown. The Pennie’s Pick at Costco is Margarita Montimore‘s Oona Out of Order. Amazon‘s February Spotlight Pick is The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah and the Featured Debut is How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones. The rest of the picks: The Paris Library, by Janet Skelien Charles How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, by Bill Gates […]
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At Harper Children’s, Audrey Diestelkamp has been promoted to director, marketing; Robert Imfeld to associate director; Sabrina Abballe to senior manager; and Michael D’Angelo to assistant manager. At Phaidon, vice president, group publisher, Deb Aaronson will now manage the entire editorial group, overseeing commissioning in all of Phaidon’s publishing categories, including art, architecture, cookery, design, general interest, photography, and children’s. Emilia Terragni has taken on a new role as associate publisher. Simon Hunegs has been promoted to project editor. Ellie Smith has rejoined in the role of managing editor, culinary team. Sarah Sullivan will join Scholastic on February 1 as national […]
Awards: ALA Youth Media Winners; NBCC Finalists
The American Library Association presented their annual book awards at their virtual mid-winter meeting. On Monday morning, at the Youth Media Awards, the Newbery medal went to When You Trap a Tiger by Tae Keller, and the Caldecott Medal to We Are Water Protectors illustrated by Michaela Goade and written by Carole Lindstrom. Everything Sad Is Untrue by Daniel Nayeri won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature. The William C. Morris debut award went to Kyrie McCauley’s If These Wings Could Fly, while Candace Fleming’s The Rise and Fall of Charles Lindbergh won the Excellence in […]