Kara Watson has been promoted to senior editor/marketing liaison at Scribner. Sara DeLozier has joined Viking/Penguin as publicist. She was most recently publicity coordinator at Picador. Executive director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Wanda Jewell will next June, after 30 years of leading the organization. In the UK, Anne Meadows has been promoted to editorial director at Granta. Jenny Fry has been promoted to commercial director at Canongate, adding responsibility for sales. Elise Burns will move to Bonnier Books UK in mid-November as trade sales and export director, reporting to Perminder Mann. She is currently UK sales director at […]
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Chuck Deane has joined Sourcebooks as sales director. He was most recently vice president of sales (Americas) at Wiley. At Rebel Girls, Pam Gruber joins as editorial director. She was previously senior editor at Little, Brown Children’s. Grace House joins as project and contracts manager (she was assistant editor at Berkley), and Karen Chau has been promoted to licensing and partnerships associate. At HMH Children’s, Abigail Stahlman has joined as senior marketing designer; previously she was senior designer at Scholastic. Nadia Almahdi has joined as marketing manager; previously she was marketing manager at Little Bee Books. Kaitlyn Spotts has joined […]
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Isabel DaSilva has been promoted to associate marketing manager at Atria. RBmedia will publish over 170 audiobook editions of titles from sci-fi and fantasy publisher Baen Books over the next three years. Awards The Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced finalists: Fiction Insurrecto, by Gina Apostol (Soho Press) Sadness Is A White Bird, by Moriel Rothman Zecher (Atria) The Overstory, by Richard Powers (Norton) There There, by Tommy Orange (Knopf) What We Owe, by Golnaz Hashemzadeh (HMH) White Chrysanthemum, by Mary Lynn Bracht (Putnam) Nonfiction Educated, by Tara Westover (Random House) Frederick Douglass, by David Blight (Simon and Schuster) I Should […]
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Jeff Carroll will join Macmillan on September 3 as evp, marketing and consumer strategy, reporting to Maya Mavjee. He most recently led marketing efforts at Radio.com, after working at NBCUniversal and Viacom. Jaime Gelman has been promoted to assistant editor at BuzzPop. Awards The Rona Jaffe Foundation announced the winners of their annual writers’ awards: Selena Anderson (fiction), Magogodi oaMphela Makhene (fiction), Sarah Passino (poetry), Nicolette Polek (fiction), Elizabeth Schambelan (nonfiction), and Debbie Urbanski (fiction/nonfiction). Bookselling Philadelphia’s Penn Book Center in University City, which was in danger of closing at the end of the summer, will stay open under new ownership. […]
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Katie Boland has been promoted to events and programming manager, books at Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull. In the UK, Richard Atkinson is joining Penguin Press in the newly created role of publishing director starting September 2 and reporting to managing director Stefan McGrath. He was previously senior commissioning editor at Bloomsbury UK. Phantasmagoria Books and Records in Tulsa, OK continues to be harassed by white nationalists. On Monday, co-owner Shannon Iwanski saw a man spray paint a swastika and graffiti on the sidewalk in front of the store, and reported it to local police.
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Mary Francis will take over as director of Penn Press at the University of Pennsylvania on September 23. She has been editorial director of University of Michigan Press since 2015 and spent more than 16 years at University of California Press. At Chronicle Books, Rebecca Hunt has been promoted to editorial director, entertainment. Christina Amini has been promoted to executive publishing director, adult trade. Arcadia’s director of national sales and marketing Kate Everingham will leave the company on December 31 after over 20 years there, after which she will assist on special projects in a consulting role. She will transition […]