Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, the debut book from Avid Reader Press, is the No. Indie Next pick for July. The rest of the list, including three titles excerpted in Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer, marked with an asterisk, is as follows: *Stay and Fight, by Madeline ffitch The Most Fun We Ever Had, by Claire Lombardo Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl Evvie Drake Starts Over, by Linda Holmes The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, by Abbi Waxman The Travelers, by Regina Porter The Need, by Helen Phillips The Lightest Object in the Universe, by […]
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Lisa Erickson has joined Harper Perennial and Harper paperbacks as marketing director. She was previously at Crown. Jon Michael Darga has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent. He was previously an assistant editor at Crown. Madeline Jones has been promoted to associate editor at Holt. Sophie Christopher, 28, senior publicity manager at Transworld in the UK and co-founder of The FLIP, died from a suspected aneurysm on Monday. Transworld managing director Larry Finlay told the Bookseller that her colleagues were “in a state of shock.” He noted, “It’s always devastating when any colleague dies – losing someone so young, so full of life and […]
People, Etc.: Wein to Avid Reader, and More
Lauren Wein will join Avid Reader Press as editorial director on June 24, where she will acquire both fiction and nonfiction, and will oversee a fiction program for the new imprint. She has been executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Erin M. Berger will join Scholastic Trade as senior vice president of marketing, starting June 17. Most recently she was vp, creative marketing director at Penguin Children’s. Sue Berger Ramin will join Brandeis University Press in the newly created position of director, starting July 1. She was previously associate publisher at David R. Godine. Stephanie Winter has been promoted to […]
June Picks
Sarah Heywood’s THE CACTUS is the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick for June. N.K. Jemisin’s THE FIFTH SEASON was selected by the PBS NewsHour-New York Times club, Now Read This. Separately, the NYT names 12 books for June. Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for June is Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls and their Featured Debut is Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie. Also on the list are Tan France’s Naturally Tan and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of their June picks: Ask Again, Yes, by Mary Beth […]
People, Etc.: Book Co-Authored with Tony Robbins Is Dropped
Tony Robbins‘ longtime publisher Simon & Schuster declined to comment earlier this month when BuzzFeed first dropped their expose alleging inappropriate sexual advances with employees and more. But now the planned July release of THE PATH: Accelerating Your Journey to Financial Freedom, by Peter Mallouk, writing “with” Robbins as co-author, will not be published. A source at Simon & Schuster confirms, “We are not proceeding with publication of The Path.” Robbins’ lawyers insist the book was “postponed” and tell BuzzFeed that Simon & Schuster has not cut ties with him: “To state or suggest otherwise is absolutely false.” Dana Renert […]
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Kirkus Reviews editor in chief for over six years Claiborne Smith is resigning to “focus on writing books” and supporting the San Antonio Book Festival, where he will be literary director. Newsday books editor Tom Beer will take over at Kirkus on June 17, reporting to ceo Meg Kuehn. She says in the announcement, “Tom Beer brings the literary sensibility Kirkus; readers have come to expect from us along with experience and keen instincts for reporting on books in a way that connects with reading enthusiasts.” Sourcebooks has hired Molly Cusick, as editor for Jabberwocky, Young Readers, and Fire; and […]