Claudia Gabel has been promoted to editorial director at Harper Children’s. Amy Stapp is joining Wolfson Literary Agency as of November 1. She was previously an editor with Macmillan/Tor. Jason Kirk has been promoted to executive editor at Amazon’s 47North and Skyscape imprints. Maria Mann has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicity associate. She was previously at Page Street publishing. At Chronicle Books, Julia Marvel has joined as designer, children’s. Previously she was associate designer at Abrams Books. Patrick Rafanan has joined as marketing photographer and visual content coordinator. Previously he was an ecommerce photographer at Randa Accessories. Wendy Thorpe […]
Awards
Best of 2018 Lists Begin with Publishers Weekly, Indigo
Publishers Weekly named its best books of 2018, in a number of categories. Their overall top ten leads with Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry, Tara Westover’s Educated, and Kiese Laymon’s Heavy. The rest of the list: How to Write an Autobiographical Novel, by Alexander Chee Insurrecto, by Gina Apostol The Largess of the Sea Maiden, by Denis Johnson Melmoth, by Sarah Perry Reagan, by Bob Spitz The Shape of Ruins, by Juan Gabriel Vasquez She Has Her Mother’s Laugh, by Carl Zimmer Indigo also announced their Best of 2018 list earlier in the month, naming Westover’s Educated the best book of the […]
People, Awards, Etc.
Rex Ogle has joined Aevitas Creative Management as director of book packaging & story development. He was previously editor at DC Comics, Scholastic, and senior editor at Little Brown Children’s. Ruby Rose Lee has been promoted to assistant editor at Henry Holt. Awards The Kirkus Prize winners were announced, in three categories: Ling Ma’s Severance won for fiction; Rebecca Solnit’s Call Them by Their True Names won for nonfiction; and Derrick Barnes’ Crown won for children’s literature. Actor Nick Offerman will host the National Book Awards Ceremony on November 14. In the UK, the winners of the CWA Dagger Awards were announced in nine categories: the […]
People, Etc.
Adam Guerriero has joined Hachette Book Group as vice president, pricing. He was most recently director of pricing analytics at Macy’s. Rosie Mahorter and Abigail Novak have both been promoted to senior publicist at Scribner. Sydney Morris has been promoted to associate publicist at Touchstone. Katie Quinn has joined Macmillan Children’s as marketing manager. Previously, she was publicist at Penguin Children’s. Stephanie Levasseur has joined Sourcebooks as sales account manager. She was most recently sales account representative at ReaderLink. Jessica Dartnell has joined Holiday House as a sales coordinator. She was previously client relations assistant at Ingram Content Group. Forthcoming Knopf will […]
Anna Burns Wins Booker Prize
The Booker Prize was a solid win for independent publishers, going to Irish writer Anna Burns for her novel Milkman. Faber & Faber publishes her in the UK, and Graywolf had purchased rights recently. The US publisher originally had the book scheduled for fall 2019 publication, but has moved the release date up to December 11. Faber is going back to press for another 100,000 paperbacks in the UK based on strong bookseller demand, after having sold a modest 2,000 hardcovers and 3,500 paperbacks so far. Chairman of the judges Kwame Anthony Appiah said of the novel, “None of us has ever […]
People, Etc.
Zachary Knoll has been promoted to associate editor at Simon & Schuster. Jeff Li joins Serial Box as chief operating officer. Most recently he led the ventures team at NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Networks. Awards The New Academy prize, formed to fill the gap left by the Swedish Academy’s decision to not award a Nobel for literature this year, was awarded to Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, who writes in French. A number of US publishers have her works in print. SEGU, published by Penguin, is her best known novel, and VICTOIRE: My Mother’s Mother, published by Simon & Schuster, is her most […]