Right on schedule, we have our second update on the competition for the consensus best books of the year, and as naturally happens at this point in the aggregation, there is enough data for full “top 10” lists for both fiction and nonfiction. With 54 votes counted at this point (or 33 more than Quartz…
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Harper Children’s has created an new internal editorial team focusing on teen and middle grade fiction. Erica Sussman is editorial director of the team, joined by Kristen Pettit, Emilia Rhodes, Alice Jerman, Elizabeth Lynch and Stephanie Stein. Rachel Zugschwert will join Lerner Publishing Group as group marketing director starting January 1. She was most recently director…
The Best of the Best Books of 2017, to Start
The NYT has published lists of their individual critics’ favorite books of the year, from veteran Dwight Garner, newcomer Parul Seghal, the departing Jennifer Senior, and even/still Janet Maslin. Maslin writes, “Mine is the strangest of these lists. I left The Times’s staff two and a half years ago, but apparently I won’t go away….
Goodreads Winners, And More 2017 Picks
Goodreads announced the winners of their Choice Awards based on online voting in 20 categories. Here are the category winners, sorted by vote totals: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: The Original Screenplay, by J.K. Rowling (Fantasy: 92,611 votes) The Hate U Give, by Angie Thomas (Debut Goodreads Author: 74,925 votes) A Court of Wings and…
Briefs: NYT’s Top Ten Books, And More
The New York Times Book Review editors announced their top ten books of 2017, with the individual critics’ lists still to come. In fiction, Jesmyn Ward’s National Book Award-winning Sing, Unburied, Sing makes the list, along with NBA shortlisted Pachinko by Min Jin Lee, plus: Autumn, by Ali Smith Exit West, by Mohsin Hamid The Power, by…
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Cheryl L. Davis has joined the Authors Guild as general counsel. She is a former partner at Menaker & Herrmann, where she focused on intellectual property issues and litigating copyright and trademark cases. Davis is also an award-winning playwright. She says in the announcement, “This job is really a dream come true for me. Not…