Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for January is Maid by Stephanie Land (available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter edition), and their featured debut is Sugar Run by Mesha Maren. The rest of the list: The Current, by Tim Johnston The Winter of the Witch, by Katherine Arden Breaking and Entering, by Jeremy N….
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The Final, Definitive Very Best of the Best Books of 2018 Lists
With 58 votes tabulated we’re ready to stop counting and present the final and ultimate (despite some newcomers) aggregation of selective “best of 2018” book lists from all over — including major publications of all kinds, but also retailer and library selections, major award nominees, and more. This year the top books were out of…
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Jennifer Barth has been promoted to senior vice president, Harper. At Simon & Schuster Children’s Rebecca Vitkus has been promoted to production editor. Lisa Lauria has joined as editor for Simon Spotlight; she was most recently in the marketing and advertising department at Toys ‘R Us. Cassie Malmo has joined as publicity manager; she was most recently senior publicist at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Lauren Carr will join…
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Penguin Random House chief human resources officer Frank Steinert will leave the company after the first quarter in 2019. CEO Markus Dohle writes that Steinert “contributed passionately and immensely to our company by improving and strengthening our services for the most central part of our business: our employees.” Paige McInerney is promoted to the new…
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Marian Wood, vice president and publisher of Marian Wood Books, will retire at the end of the year. She has been with Putnam since 1999. Ivan Held president of Putnam, Berkley, and Dutton wrote in a memo to staff, “While her list of writers is a tribute to her acumen as an editor, each of…
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Tin House Magazine will shut down after its 20th anniversary issue is released in June 2019. Tin House Books and Tin House Workshop will continue, and new original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be published at tinhouse.com. Co-founder and editor of the magazine Rob Spillman will be leaving to move on to “new adventures.” Publisher…