We’re back with another fascinating look at the prominent retailer and book club selections for November, along with four weeks of sales data to see how they performed in the marketplace. November gives a somewhat better view of the impact of the new version of Oprah’s Book Club, since this time she picked a book that was already published. (But her promotional linkage is to Apple and all we have available are print sales, not ebook and digital audio sales, so the value of that relationship remains opaque.) Separately, it was National Book Awards month, so we checked to see […]
Awards
Reid’s Such A Fun Age Tops January Indie Next List
The ABA named Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age as its No. 1 pick for January. Also on the list are Liz Moore’s Long Bright River and Raymond Fleishmann’s How Quickly She Disappears, available to sample now, along with the Reid, in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: Dear Edward, by Ann Napolitano Imaginary Museums, by Nicolette Polek Big Lies in a Small Town, by Diane Chamberlain The Magical Language of Others, by E.J. Koh Uncanny Valley, by Anna Wiener The Vanished Birds, by Simon Jimenez Night Theater, by Vikram Paralkar Lady Clementine, by Marie Benedict […]
People, Etc.
Brian Belfiglio has been promoted to vp, director of publicity and marketing at Scribner, continuing to report to Nan Graham. He will oversee a merged department “in order to publicize and promote our books most effectively.” A new marketing director will be hired under Belfiglio. VP, associate publisher Roz Lippel continues in her role, still leading the marketing and branding efforts on Stepehen King titles. Following her work on the revision of Joy of Cooking, she will also focus on developing new cooking, health and lifestyle titles. Dina Davis has been promoted to associate editor at Harlequin for the Love Inspired and […]
December Picks
Reese Witherspoon has chosen Denise Mina’s Conviction as her December book club pick. Jenn Bush Hager chose Margaret Renkl’s Late Migrations as the December pick for the Today Show Book Club. Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for December is Kiley Reid’s Such a Fun Age (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter collection) and their Featured Debut is Calvin Hennick’s Once More to the Rodeo. The rest of the picks: Children of Virtue and Vengeance, by Tomi Adeyemi Under Occupation, by Alan Furst The Playground, by Jane Shemilt Labyrinth of Ice, by Buddy Levy Anyone, by Charles Soule All […]
People, Etc.
Cecelia Cancellaro, founder of Word Creative Literary Services, will join Cambridge University Press in early December as senior editor in US and Latin American history, based in New York. Awards In the UK, the Costa Book Awards announced its shortlists in five categories. Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton, a finalist for the first novel prize, is excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler. Other nominees include: Novel Middle England, by Jonathan Coe (Knopf/Viking) Confession with Blue Horses, by Sophie Hardach (Head of Zeus) Starling Days, by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan (Sceptre) Shadowplay, by Joseph O’Connor (Harvill Secker) […]
Briefs
Ailah Ahmed has been promoted to publishing director at Little Brown UK. Picks Way to go, GMA! After announcing their first two Cover to Cover Book Club picks in the middle of the month, the program is on it for December — with an early announcement that Tomi Adeyemi‘s Children of Virtue and Vengeance is their December Book Club selection. Bookselling As Barnes & Noble faces a lawsuit from a veteran former California bookseller alleging age discrimination and claiming that the chain’s real strategy is “we’re no longer hiring book people. going forward, we’re only hiring sales people,'” ceo James […]