Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for Feburary is The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo and their Featured Debut is The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. The rest of the list: Underground, by Will Hunt The Unwinding of the Miracle, by Julie Yip-Williams Early Riser, by Jasper Fford Sounds Like Titanic, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders The Lost Man, by Jane Harper The Age of Light, by Whitney Scharer Good Kids, Bad City, by Kyle Swenson Apple Books also chose the Michaelides, Scharer, and Kindman, as well as: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, […]
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Pieter Swinkels has been promoted to chief content officer at Rakuten Kobo. Additionally, Alan MacNevin has been promoted to chief operating officer; Marianne Hamilton to chief marketing officer; and Dave Anderson to chief strategy officer. At Macmillan Children’s, Carol Ly has been promoted to senior designer and Sophie Erb to associate designer. Emily Settle has been promoted to associate editor at Feiwel and Friends and Swoon Reads. Picks The Wife by Meg Wolitzer is the February pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club. The Costco Pennie’s Pick for February is The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald. Awards Biography The Cut Out Girl by Bart […]
Newbery to Medina, Caldecott to Blackall, and More
The American Library Association presented their annual book awards at their mid-winter meeting in Seattle. On Monday morning, at the Youth Media Awards, the Newbery medal went to Meg Medina for Merci Suarez Changes Gears (Candlewick) and the Caldecott Medal to Sophie Blackall for Hello Lighthouse (Little, Brown). National Book Award winner The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (HarperTeen) won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature (it also won the Pura Belpre Award for Text). The William C. Morris debut award went to Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (Dial), while The Unwanted by Don Brown (HMH) won the Excellence in Nonfiction […]
Man Group to Stop Funding Booker Prize After 2019
On Saturday, the UK’s Booker Prize announced that hedge fund Man Group will end their sponsorship after the 2019 prizes are awarded. Man will contribute £1.6 million to the 2019 prizes, having spent £25 million since becoming the title sponsor in 2002. The Booker Foundation said in a release, “The Trustees are in discussion with a new sponsor and are confident that the new funding will be in place for 2020. In the meantime the two prizes will run as usual this year.” Helena Kennedy, chair of the Booker Prize Foundation, added, “We would like to put on record the Foundation’s […]
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Veronica Park has joined Fuse Literary as an associate agent. She was previously literary agent and marketing specialist at Corvisiero Literary Agency. Alexandra Franklin has been promoted to associate agent at the Vicky Bijur Literary Agency. Maya Baran has joined Viking Penguin as publicity manager, returning to publishing full-time. Most recently she has assisted Broadside PR and The Countryman Press. The ALA has named Melinda Gates the honorary chair of National Library Week, starting April 7. At Porter Square Books in Cambridge, MA, Leila Meglio has joined as events manager. Most recently, she was publicity associate at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Sarah Rettger becomes […]
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Another Crown employee gets a new assignment, as Donna Passannante moves to Penguin Random House Audio on February 4 as senior vice president, marketing & publicity, reporting to president & publisher, Amanda D’Acierno. She was vice president & executive director, marketing at at the Crown Publishing Group. Newly reporting to Passannante are Katie Punia, vice president, publicity, and Heather Dalton, vice president, marketing. At Chronicle Books, Madison Killen has been promoted to digital marketing manager, children’s; Jennifer Yim moves up to marketing and publicity coordinator, children’s; and Jenna Homen is now digital marketing manager, Adult. At Random House Children’s, Kelly McGauley has […]