Rebecca Kuss joins Inkyard Press as editor. She was formerly associate editor/director of recruitment & acquisitions at Glasstown Entertainment. Camille Kellogg has joined Imprint as assistant editor. She was editorial assistant at Harper Children’s. Chloe Puton has been promoted to director of publicity for the Workman imprint. In the UK, Lisette Verhagen will join PFD as an agent for international clients on January 6. She has been head of rights at David Godwin Associates. Former ceo of Harper UK Victoria Barnsley has created The Brideshead Festival, marking the 75th anniversary of publication of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited, a three-day event to […]
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Michael Signorelli has joined Aevitas Creative Management as agent. Previously he was managing director at Gotham Ghostwriters and an editor at Holt and HarpeCollins. Awards PEN America announced their 2020 literary award longlists. Best of The WSJ picked their top 10 books of the year, as did People magazine. USA Today has moved on to 20 “must read” forthcoming winter picks. Bookselling Employees of McNally Jackson voted yesterday to join the NYC Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union, which will represent approximately 90 employees who handle sales, events, stocking and information services. In the union’s announcement, Kathryn Harper, who works at the […]
Whitehead and Keefe Still Lead the Consensus Best Book of the Year Race
Here is our weekly updated aggregation of the best of Best Books of 2019 lists, now with over 50 lists tabulated. Colson Whitehead still leads the field, with Patrick Radden Keefe continuing to top all nonfiction titles. The Very Best of the Best Books of 2019: The Top 10 So Far 1. The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead [22] 2. Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe [17] 3. On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, by Ocean Vuong [16] 4. Trust Exercise, by Susan Choi [15] 5. The Yellow House, by Sarah Broom [14] 6. The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood [12] Normal […]
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Film/TV Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, through their company Escapist Fare, have signed a multi-year overall deal with CBS TV Studios. That deal starts with a limited series adaptation of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay for Showtime, but includes a number of other projects in development. Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman will executive produce Kavalier & Clay, and Paramount Television will produce (since Paramount Pictures owns the film/TV rights). Initiatives This year James Patterson will give holiday gifts totaling over $200,000 to Barnes & Noble booksellers around the country as well, in addition to his annual holiday bonuses […]
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Executive director of publicity, Knopf and Pantheon Paul Bogaards has been promoted to the additional role of deputy publisher, reporting to Tony Chirico. He will have additional responsibility for overseeing marketing for Knopf and Pantheon while continuing to serve as group spokesperson and lead publicity liaison. Newly reporting to Bogaards is svp, associate publisher, Knopf and Pantheon Chris Gillespie. Robyn Bender has been promoted to senior vice president, business operations and strategy at Penguin Children’s. Adam Kane will join Naval Institute Press as director. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at University of Oklahoma Press. The American Library Association sold their longtime […]
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George Witte has been promoted to senior vice president and editor-in-chief of the St. Martin’s publishing group. Tina Jordan has been promoted to deputy editor at the New York Times Book Review. David Kelly become managing editor. Elizabeth Egan joins as preview editor; she was previously Glamour’s books editor and worked at Workman and Simon & Schuster. Lauren Truskowski has joined Gallery as associate director of publicity. She previously worked at Penguin and HarperCollins. In the UK, Ebury will focus on nonfiction, and publishing director Gillian Green will leave in spring 2020 as a result after 12 years there. The […]