Charlie Schroder joins Scribd as head of domestic content acquisition and new verticals. She was previously vp/marketing, licensing & development of global at children’s publisher Candlewick Press. Liz Edelstein joins as director of original content strategy and operations. Previously, she created and ran romance fiction website Heroes & Heartbreakers at Macmillan. Former creative director at Abrams Children’s Chad W. Beckerman has joined The CAT Agency as an agent. Priya Nelson will join Princeton University Press as senior editor, history on June 22. She is currently editor, anthropology & history at the University of Chicago Press. At University of California Press, […]
Awards
June Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for June is Brit Bennett‘s The Vanishing Half and the featured debut is Megha Majumdar‘s A Burning. You can sample the Bennett now in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Devolution, by Max Brooks Fair Warning, by Michael Connelly 28 Summers, by Elin Hilderbrand Rebel Chef, by Dominique Crenn Feasting Wild, by Gina Rae La Cerva The Lightness, by Emily Temple Everyone Know How Much I Love You, by Kyle McCarthy The House on Fripp Island, by Rebecca Kaufman Barnes & Noble‘s books of the month are: Fiction: Circe, by Madeline Miller […]
People, Etc.: S&S and Macmillan Will Also Skip the Frankfurt Book Fair
Frankfurt Book Fair Simon & Schuster joined HarperCollins and others in announcing that it, too, will not attend the Frankfurt Book Fair this year: “After careful consideration, and with the health and safety of our employees and industry colleagues foremost in mind, Simon & Schuster has decided that it will not attend the Frankfurt Book Fair this year. We applaud the FBF’s efforts to develop digital programs, and while we will not have a physical presence, our publishers, rights and sales groups are very much looking forward to using other means to meet with their with their contacts in the […]
Briefs
The National Book Festival will not be held at the Washington Convention Center this year. Instead, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced, they will organize a virtual festival, with online events the weekend of September 25–27. The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize was given to Juno Dawson’s Meat Market (Quercus Children’s). McNally Jackson owner Sarah McNally writes an op-ed for the NYT about why many New York landlords would rather see retail spaces sit empty than give rent concessions. (Admitting to lower rents reduces the value of the building.) “We could solve our vacancy problem for good if all landlords simply […]
People, Etc.
John Donovan will join Norton’s UK subsidiary, W.W. Norton & Company as managing director, starting July 1. Donovan was most recently regional director, UK and Europe, for McGraw Hill Education. Current managing director Edward Crutchley will retire in July, though he will continue to serve on the governing board of W.W. Norton. Heidi Luedemann has been promoted to contracts director, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, succeeding the late Bill Shannon, effective immediately, and reporting to David Sanford, senior vp, executive director, contracts & permissions, Penguin Random House US. Awards The James Beard Foundation presented their book awards Wednesday afternoon, with The […]
People, Etc.
At Pearson, Alexa Christon has been promoted to chief marketing officer, reporting to chief corporate affairs officer, Deirdre Latour. Robb Forman Dew, 73, author of fiction, memoirs, essays, criticism, and cookbooks, died on May 22. Her 1981 novel, Dale Loves Sophie to Death, won the National Book Award (then known as the American Book Award) for a first novel. A memorial will be held at a time and place to be determined once quarantine restrictions have been lifted. Awards Amazon Literary Partnership announced its 2020 grant recipients, including Deep Vellum Publishing, City of Asylum Pittsburgh, The Center for Africa and LitNet. Past recipients […]