Tessa Woodward has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow/Avon. At Little, Brown: Alexandra Hoopes has been promoted to assistant editor; Lucy Kim is now art director and Tim Harrington is senior art director; Katharine Myers moves up to director of publicity, Lena Khidritskaya Little becomes associate director of publicity and Alyssa Persons is publicist; and Ashley Marudas is promoted to senior marketing manager. Kathryn Taussig will be promoted to publishing director at Bookouture as of April 23, reporting to Jenny Geras, responsible for recruiting and leading their recently-announced team that will focus on commercial fiction for the US market. […]
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At Grand Central, Alex Logan has been promoted to executive editor; Morgan Hedden to associate editor; Elizabeth Kulhanek to associate editor; Jordan Rubinstein to publicist; Danielle Egnozzi to marketing designer; Estelle Hallick to manager, marketing & publicity, Forever; and Monisha Lakhotia to assistant marketing manager, Forever. Gabriella Mongelli has been promoted to assistant editor at Putnam. Kristen Steele, director of marketing and publisher relations for Baker & Taylor Publisher Services/Bookmasters, will leave the company on March 6. Dan Berkowitz has left his position as digital director at Writers House to open a consultancy, AuthorPop, working with authors on all things […]
March Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s Spotlight Pick for March is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and their Featured Debut is The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. The rest of the list: The Impossible Climb, by Mark Synnott The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe The Lost Night, by Andrea Bartz The River, by Peter Heller A Woman Is No Man, by Etaf Rum An American Summer, by Alex Kotlowitz A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself, by William Boyle Barnes & Noble‘s picks for the month include the Reid as well […]
Silicon Valley Foundation Crankstart Is New Booker Prize Funder
The flicker of false (and you might say falsely-targeted) hope in the UK trade that a new sponsor for the Booker Prize might let them remove Americans from contention has probably been extinguished — since the new sponsors live in California. (The Booker Foundation insists, “A sponsor or funder has no say over the rules.”) Sequoia Capital billionaire partner Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman, both writers and philanthropists, have agreed to fund the prizes for at least five years starting June 1, after the 2019 International Booker winner is announced, through Crankstart, their charitable foundation. They will spare […]
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Erin Simpson has been named director of the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau, reporting to Brian Belfiglio. Along with the appointment, the company is transitioning the speakers bureau into an in-house venture, effective April 1. Since it was founded in 2008, their speakers bureau had been operated by Greater Talent Network on behalf of the publisher. Simpson had been agent director at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau before joining S&S. Kelly Booth has joined Ten Speed Press as creative director. She was previously creative director at Weldon Owen. Emma Campion becomes deputy creative director. Erin Skeen has joined as studio […]
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Megan Harley has been named marketing manager at Algonquin Children’s. Sarah Alpert has been promoted to associate editor, now acquiring middle-grade and young adult fiction and non-fiction and graphic novels. At Chronicle Books, Allison Weiner has been promoted to design manager, art; Lisa Bach to director of special sales. Vanessa Navarrete to sales manager, independent specialty; Emily Malter to sales coordinator, independent specialty; and Neil Egan to design manager, entertainment. Awards The London Book Fair will present their Lifetime Achievement Award to Dorotea Bromberg of Sweden’s Brombergs, which she co-founded alongside her father Adam in 1975. Bookselling Inkwood Books in Tampa, FL will close […]