Thomas LeBien will join Simon & Schuster as vp, senior editor, specializing in history and non-fiction. He was most recently at FSG, where he was publisher of the Hill & Wang and Scientific American imprints. LeBien starts at S&S on December 21 Rachel Vogel will join Mary Evans Inc. as foreign rights director and literary agent, effective November 28th, where she’ll continue to build her list of literary and upmarket fiction, narrative nonfiction and memoir. She has previously held positions at Movable Type, Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, and Maria Campbell Associates. Parhul Segal has joined NPR as digital associate editor for […]
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At Random House Struik in South Africa, founding managing director Stephen Johnson will step down in March 2012, the end of the unit’s fiscal year, as he reaches retirement age. Johnson will become chairman of the company’s board in April. Current managing director of London’s New Holland Publishers (and a former Struik md) Steve Connolly will return to South Africa to run Random House Struik as of April. Nicola Way will join Harper Children’s UK as marketing director in January. She was most recently a board director at Iris Nation, a UK integrated marketing agency. Sumya Ojakli has been named senior […]
Harbach Tops Amazon’s Best Books List of 2011
Amazon named their Top Ten Books of 2011, with Chad Harbach’s debut novel THE ART OF FIELDING as their No. 1 pick. The etailer’s ever-expanding “Best of” lists now include breakouts for over 20 different categories, from Art & Photography to Teens. In 15 of those categories they have separate Kindle and print-editions lists. Also new for this year is a list of Top 10 Kindle Singles. Interestingly, as best we can tell, nearly all of the various selections for the year’s best books were issued by “legacy publishers.” 1. The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach (Little, Brown) 2. […]
Eugenides, Patchett and Fey On PW’s 2011 Top 10 List
PW named their Top 10 books of 2011: Fiction The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides (FSG) The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock (Doubleday) State of Wonder by Ann Patchett (HarperCollins) After the Apocalypse by Maureen McHugh (Small Beer) There but for the by Ali Smith (Pantheon) Nonfiction Bossypants by Tina Fey (Reagan Arthur Books) Catherine the Great by Robert K. Massie (Random) Hemingway’s Boat by Paul Hendrickson (Knopf) One Day I Will Write About This Place by Binyavanga Wainaina (Graywolf) Arguably: Essays by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve)
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At Harvard Business Review Press, Sarah McConville has been promoted to publisher, responsible for leading all commercial aspects of the press including strategic partnerships, marketing and publicity, foreign rights, and global and domestic sales. She will also spearhead product development efforts. In addition, Tim Sullivan moves up to editorial director. At Random House, Frank Steinert has been promoted to evp, chief human resources officer. He is head of HR for the US division and for the company worldwide. Alyson Sinclair has been named publicity director at McSweeney’s, effective November 21st. She was most recently marketing and publicity manager at City […]
The Lists Begin, As Hudson Booksellers Picks Books of the Year
Hudson Booksellers, which operates 70 bookstores and sells books through another 400 newsstands, has picked Jonathan Evison’s novel WEST OF HERE as their book of the year. Here are their full Top 10 lists: Nonfiction Townie, Andre Dubus III Bossypants, Tina Fey Granta 116: Ten Years Later, Granta, Ed. John Freeman Swerve, Stephen Greenblatt The Heart and the Fist, Eric Greitens Arguably, Christopher Hitchens In the Garden of Beasts, Erik Larson Sex on the Moon, Ben Mezrich What It Is Like to Go to War, Karl Marlantes The Psychopath Test, Jon Ronson Best Fiction Ready Player One, Ernest Cline The […]