The Association of American Publishers (AAP) board unanimously elected vice chair and Wiley ceo Brian Napack as their new chair, effective September 25, taking over from John Sargent, who resigned in conjunction with his pending departure from Macmillan. A new vice chair will be elected separately. Additionally, new Macmillan trade ceo Don Weisberg has taken Sargent’s board seat, Simon & Schuster ceo Jonathan Karp has filled the late Carolyn Reidy’s seat, and Norton chair and president Julia Reidhead joined the board after being voted into an at-large seat in June. Powell’s Books has hired business consultant Patrick Bassett as their […]
Awards
October Picks
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig is the GMA Book Club pick for October. Sample an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter anthology. The Stationary Shop by Marjan Kamali is the Pennie’s Pick at Costco. Paul Tough‘s Helping Children Succeed is the NYT-PBS NewsHour Now Read Book Club Pick The Searcher by Tana French is Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for October and Group by Christie Tate is their featured debut. The rest of the list: Dear Child, by Romy Hausman The Invisible Life of Addie Larue, V.E. Schwab The Zealot and the Emancipator, by H.W. Brands The Once and […]
Bryan Washington’s Memorial Tops November’s Indie Next List
The ABA named Bryan Washington’s novel Memorial as the No. 1 pick for November’s Indie Next list. You can sample it now in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2020 anthology (and you heard from his editor Laura Persiacepe in our virtual Buzz Panel presentation in May). The rest of the list: The Cold Millions, by Jess Walter We Keep the Dead Close, by Becky Cooper Where the Wild Ladies Are, by Aoko Matsuda Plain Bad Heroines, by Emily M. Danforth, Sara Lautman (Illus.) Group, by Christie Tate Moonflower Murders, by Anthony Horowitz Invisible Girl, by Lisa Jewell White Ivy, by Susie […]
People, Etc.
Jamia Wilson will join Random House as vice president and executive editor, starting January 4. She was most recently executive director and publisher of The Feminist Press. At Putnam, Nishtha Patel has been promoted to marketing coordinator; Nicole Biton to associate publicist; and Sydney Cohen to associate publicist. Awards The National Book Foundation announced the titles for the third and final year of its Literature for Justice program: Dionne Brand, Ossuaries Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates Assata Shakur, Assata Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, […]
People, Etc.
Abigail Walters, Carlos Segarra, Emily Westcott, and Alex Rice have each been promoted to agent at CAA. All four are based in New York. At Aitken Alexander Associates, Emma Paterson joins the board of directors. Chris Wellbelove becomes head of the book department. At Westwood Creative Artists, Emmy Nordstrom Higdon has joined as literary agent. They were previously at The Rights Factory. Meg Wheeler has been promoted to literary agent, Bridgette Kam to international rights associate, and Sarah-Jayne Carver to literary associate. Paloma Hernando joins Einstein Literary Management as associate agent. She was previously an intern at Writers House and a bookseller at Books […]
Douglas Stuart Has A Chance for National Book Award and Booker, As Fiction Longlisted Features New Names
In their final longlist, the National Book Awards puts in contention for their fiction award three debuts and only one author — Lydia Millet — ever recognized in the past by the organization. (She was longlisted in 2016 for Sweet Lamb of Heaven.) Following a strong presence on the nonfiction list, Norton has two novels in contention, with other titles from Tin House Books, West Virginia University Press and Grove/Atlantic. Douglas Stuart is the one author in the running for the NBA award as well as the Booker Prize, for Shuggie Bain. One title — from Rumaan Alam — does […]