Stephanie Sinclair will join CookeMcDermid as literary agent. She was at Transatlantic Literary Agency. Patrice Caldwell joins New Leaf Literary & Media as literary agent. She was at the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Parneshia Jones has been promoted to director of Northwestern University Press, effective September 21. Anne Bowman joins Chelsea Green in the new role of vp of business development and global sales. She has been head of new business (children’s rights) at Penguin Random House UK. Bowman will remain based in London and will split her time between Chelsea Green’s UK and Vermont offices. At Tom Doherty Associates, […]
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Mekisha Telfer has been promoted to editor at Roaring Brook Press. Mara Delgado-Sanchez has been promoted to assistant editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Rachel Bass has been promoted to assistant editor at Tom Doherty Associates. As Venetia Butterfield takes over Cornerstone in January, Daniel Crewe will move up to publishing director for Penguin Business and Penguin Life, along with Viking Non-Fiction, reporting to Joanna Prior. Martina O’Sullivan will be promoted to publisher for Penguin Business and Penguin Life, reporting to Crewe. At Viking UK, Isabel Wall moves up to commissioning editor immediately. Veronica Park has been promoted to agent at Fuse Literary. Awards […]
Kirkus Prize Names Finalists
The Kirkus Prize announced their finalists, with the winners to be named on November 5: Fiction Black Sunday, by Tola Rotimi Abraham (Catapult) Fiebre Tropical, by Juli Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press) The Lying Life of Adults, by Elena Ferrante, translated by Ann Goldstein (Europa Editions) Luster, by Raven Leilani (FSG) (Sample an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter anthology) Deacon King Kong, by James McBride (Riverhead) Shuggie Bain, by Douglas Stuart (Grove) Nonfiction A Furious Sky, by Eric Jay Dolin (Liveright/Norton) Fathoms, by Rebecca Giggs (Simon & Schuster) The Address Book, by Deirdre Mask (St. Martin’s) World of […]
Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue Tops October Indie Next List
The ABA named V.E. Schwab’s The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue as its No. 1 pick for October. Also on the list is Rumaan Alam’s Leave the World Behind, excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler. The rest of the picks: Hench, by Natalie Zina Walschots White Tears/Brown Scars, by Ruby Hamad The End of the Day, by Bill Clegg A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik Keep Moving, by Maggie Smith Rough House, by Tina Ontiveros Stakes Is High, by Denzel Smith Black Sun, by Rebecca Roanhorse Here We Are, by Graham Smith Dear […]
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Nachie Marsham has joined IDW Publishing as publisher. He was previously executive editor at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Heather Gold has been promoted to editor for classics and ancient world at Yale University Press. Forthcoming Pope Francis‘ LET US DREAM will be published by Simon & Schuster on December 1, 2020, in dual English and Spanish editions. The book begins by exploring the COVID crisis and “explains why we must—and how we can—make the world safer, fairer, and healthier for all people now.” It is “the fruit of many exchanges between Pope Francis and his biographer, Austen Ivereigh, in the weeks […]
September Picks
Reese Witherspoon‘s Hello Sunshine Book Club pick for September is The Last Story of Mina Lee by Nancy Jooyoun Kim. You can read an excerpt now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler. Jenna Bush Hager’s Today Show Read With Jenna book club chose Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. The Silver Arrow by Lev Grossman makes for an unusual Pennie’s Pick at Costco. But Asha Lemmie‘s debut novel Fifty Words for Rain is the most popular pick so far: It’s the GMA selection, Amazon’s Spotlight Pick, and Barnes & Noble’s Discover book for the month. Besides the Lemmie novel, Amazon‘s featured debut […]