At Hachette Book Group, Dale Wilstermann has been promoted to executive director, Nashville sales; Derek Meehan to senior manager, telephone sales; Laura Fernandez to client sales manager; and Dominique Delmas to publicist at HBG Canada. Jack Dunnington has been promoted to designer at The Experiment. Amy Giuffrida and Jolene Haley have been promoted to agent apprentice at the Corvisiero Literary Agency. Friends and admirers reported online the death of publishing executive Teresa Mlawer on Saturday. Among her many positions in publishing, she became president of Lectorum Publications, the largest distributor of Spanish-language books in the US (later acquired by Scholastic), […]
Awards
Briefs: Relief for Authors, Awards, and More
The LA Review of Books blog has an interesting, lengthy interview with Dalkey Archive Press founder John O’Brien, who has been in talks with Chad Post at Open Letter Press about a merger or other types of cooperation. “Chad and I have been talking about what happens with Dalkey when I’m gone, and right now we are focused on how we can be of help to each other. Dalkey has this very substantial backlist of over 850 books, and Open Letter has who I think is the smartest person there is in terms of marketing. Right now we are speculating […]
Briefs: People, Awards, Donations, Controversies and More
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Taryn Roeder has been promoted to vp, director of publicity and Michelle Triant to senior publicity manager. Shara Alexander has joined as associate director of publicity. At Abrams Children’s, Lora Grisafi has been promoted to senior designer, marketing. Natali Cavanagh has joined as marketing coordinator. She was previously marketing assistant at Little Brown Children’s. At Harper Children’s, Anna Bernard has been hired as senior publicist (she was at Bloomsbury Children’s) and Lauren Levite has joined as publicist (she was at Tor/Forge). Aubrey Churchward has been promoted to publicity manager, and Mitch Thorpe is now senior publicist. Tara […]
People, Etc.
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, Margaret Raymo has been promoted to senior editorial director of Versify and BFYR. Emilia Rhodes becomes editorial director of Etch and BFYR. Erika Turner moves up to senior editor at Versify. Chris Krones has been promoted to editor. Gabriella Abbate and Elizabeth Agyemang each become editorial associate. Tara Shanahan has been promoted to associate director of publicity and Anna Ravenelle to publicity associate. Matt Holt has joined BenBella as editor in chief of a new Matt Holt Books imprint. He was previously senior vice president and executive publisher at Wiley. Kaitlin Loss has joined Macmillan Children’s as assistant manager, subsidiary rights. She […]
Mandel’s The Glass Hotel Tops April Indie Next List
Announced earlier in the month, the ABA named Emily St. John Mandel’s The Glass Hotel as the No. 1 pick for the April Indie Next List. Also on the list are Elizabeth Wetmore’s Valentine; Jessica Anthony’s Enter the Aardvark; and Veronica Roth’s Chosen Ones, all excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books Spring/Summer 2020 sampler. The rest of the picks: The House in the Cerulean Sea, by TJ Klune The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix Afterlife, by Julia Alvarez Northernmost, by Peter Geye Three Hours in Paris, by Cara Black How Much of […]
People, Etc.: LBF Director to Leave, and More
Director of the London Book Fair Jacks Thomas will step down and leave Reed Exhibitions this summer after 7 years running the show. She had intended to announce her departure at this year’s LBF before the event was cancelled. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Stephanie Fletcher has been promoted to senior editor. Jenny Xu has been promoted to associate editor. Liz Kossnar has joined Little, Brown Children’s as a senior editor. Awards The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, by Rick Atkinson has won the $50,000 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize. The […]