People Katherine Jacobs has joined Zonderkidz as senior acquisitions editor. She was most recently at Roaring Brook Press. Ruoxi Chen has been promoted to editor at Tom Doherty Associates. Best Of Barnes & Noble’s 2020 Book of the Year is Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders. Awards Raven Leilani‘s Luster won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize. Camilla Townsend won the 2020 Cundill History Prize for Fifth Sun (Oxford University Press).
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The First of the Best of the Best Books of 2020
It’s time for the first installment of our signature aggregation of lists from all over that yield solid, consensus lists of the very best books of the year. With about 30 “votes” counted so far, this year shows close competition for “book of the year” honors — and experience indicates that the early leaders generally prevail at the end. If Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste prevails in the final count it would quite unusual, since the consensus “book of the year” is almost always a work of fiction. For now, here’s where the overall list (combining fiction and nonfiction) stands: The Very […]
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Transatlantic Agency is launching an international rights adult literary division, headed by senior agent Carolyn Forde, who has been made partner. Also on the team are Evan Brown, Devon Halliday, and Laura Cameron. Pearson announced that Mike Howells will become its new Chief Strategy Officer, based in London and working with the executive team and board “to shape and execute the plan for the business.” Awards Sarah Frier‘s No Filter: The Inside Story of How Instagram Transformed Business, Celebrity and Our Culture, (Simon & Schuster) won the £30,000 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Best of New […]
People: Emily Bell Joins Zando, And More
Emily Bell will join Zando as head of editorial, starting January 4 and reporting to Molly Stern. She was previously executive editor at FSG and director of FSG originals. Bell acquire her own list, as well as hiring and leading Zando’s editorial team. Jack W. Perry has joined Astra Publishing House as director of sales & analytics. Perry will be responsible for the sales efforts of Boyds Mills & Kane; mineditionUS; and Astra House. Becky Yeager has been promoted to manager, AdPromo and marketing at Tom Doherty Associates. Imprints Welbeck Publishing Group is launching a new children’s fiction imprint, Welbeck […]
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Kelsey Nolan has joined Ze Books and Unnamed Press as a publicity and marketing manager. She previously worked at the Los Angeles Times as the events programming manager. Cindy Kim has been promoted to associate editor for Little Simon. Andree Abecassis, 81, died November 4 at home in Berkeley, CA, following a brief struggle with cancer. For many years she worked at Ann Elmo Agency, founded by two of her aunts, and recently she had started working with Heyday Books. Best of 2020 The New York Public Library released their Best Books package, which includes top 10s for adults, poetry, […]
Best Of: NYT’s Best Books of the Year, And More
The New York Times Book Review announced its 10 Best Books of the Year, in a live virtual event featuring Pamela Paul and the other editors. “For us,” said Paul, “A best book is a book that stands on the merits of its prose and its storytelling, and succeeds on the terms that the author set out for it… We choose these books because we think these books offer a level of achievement that readers have come to expect from the New York Times. It’s impossible to fully convey what it takes to get there, but let me say when […]