Mike Nardullo will join Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency as agent and rights director. He was previously foreign rights director and agent at Foundry Literary + Media. He succeeds Elizabeth Fisher who has been with LGR for over 15 years and is leaving the industry to pursue other interests. Noah Schwartzberg has joined Portfolio as senior editor. He was previously senior editor at McGraw-Hill. At Random House Children’s, Megan Williams has been promoted to managing editor, operations; Elena Meuse becomes associate, publicity & corporate communications; and Kelly McGauley moves up to director, trade marketing. Alexis Banyon has joined Sourcebooks as […]
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Amar Deol will join Atria as editor, moving over from Simon & Schuster and reporting to editorial director Lindsay Sagnette. Cara Duckworth joins the AAP as vice president, communications, reporting to John McKay. She has been at the Recording Industry Association of America since 2007, most recently as svp, communications. In the adult books group at Abrams, Shannon Kelly has joined as associate editor (she was at Penguin); Jessica Wiener is senior director of marketing (she was marketing director at Holt); and Kim Lew has been promoted to senior manager of marketing. At Thomas Nelson Gift and Zondervan Gift, Jennifer Gott […]
Reid’s Such A Fun Age Tops December Library Reads
Kiley Reid’s Such A Fun Age is the No. 1 pick for December Library Reads. Also on the list is Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison. Both are excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler. The rest of the picks: Africaville, by Jeffrey Colvin The Dead Girls Club, by Damien Angelica Walters Husband Material, by Emily Belden A Madness of Sunshine, by Nalini Singh Meg and Jo, by Virginia Kantra Reputation, by Sara Shepard The Wives, by Tarryn Fisher Would Like To Meet, by Rachel Winters
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Kara Watson has been promoted to executive editor at Scribner. John Meils has joined Workman Publishing as senior editor. He was most recently senior editor at Sterling Publishing. Ronnie Kutys has been promoted to manager, sales at Harper Collins. Raven Andrus has been promoted to sales support coordinator. Carol Brightman, 80, author of Writing Dangerously and Sweet Chaos, died on November 11. Picks GMA doesn’t seem to understand that monthly book club picks are expected at the beginning of the month. After an underwhelming launch of their Cover to Cover Book Club in October, last week they named Lisa Jewell‘s The […]
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Legal Audible attorney Emily Reisbaum advised the court on Thursday that they are still in discussions with publishers regarding a potential resolution of the Captions lawsuit. Their next progress report will come on or before December 3. Awards Julia Lovell won the 2019 Cundill History Prize for Maoism (Knopf). Bookselling Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San Diego needs to vacate their Balboa Avenue storefront in 60 days — their lease expired in August — and “unless a new buyer and new location are found immediately, Mysterious Galaxy will be forced to close its doors.” They have been looking for a new […]
MacLaughlin’s Wake Siren Tops December Indie Next List
The ABA named Wake, Siren by Nina MacLaughlin as its No. 1 pick for December. The list also includes Olaf Olafsson’s The Sacrament and Andie J. Christopher’s Not the Girl You Marry, which are excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books Fall/Winter 2019 and Buzz Books Romance 2019 samplers, respectively. The rest of the picks: Anyone, by Charles Soule Mary Toft; or, The Rabbit Queen, by Dexter Palmer The German House, by Annette Hess, Elisabeth Lauffer (Trans.) Twenty-one Truths About Love, by Matthew Dicks The Second Sleep, by Robert Harris The Clergyman’s Wife, by Molly Greeley Winter Grave, by […]