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 […]
Awards
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, […]
Briefs
People Katherine Jacobs has joined Zonderkidz as senior acquisitions editor. She was most recently at Roaring Brook Press. Ruoxi Chen has been promoted to editor at Tom Doherty Associates. Best Of Barnes & Noble’s 2020 Book of the Year is Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders. Awards Raven Leilani‘s Luster won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Camilla Townsend won the 2020 Cundill History Prize for Fifth Sun (Oxford University Press).
January’s Indie Next List
The ABA announced the Indie Next List for January 2021, with The Prophets by Robert Jones, Jr. as its No. 1 pick. The can sample it now, along with another pick, Ashley Audrain’s The Push, in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler. The full list: What Could Be Saved, by Liese O’Halloran Schwarz Outlawed, by Anna North The House on Vesper Sands, by Paraic O’Donnell The Push, by Ashley Audrain Better Luck Next Time, by Julia Claiborne Johnson The Fortunate Ones, by Ed Tarkington The Center of Everything, by Jamie Harrison The Wife Upstairs, by Rachel Hawkins The Inland Sea, […]