Alicia Kroell has been promoted to assistant editor at Catapult. At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has been promoted to director of data. Adam Lara becomes web developer and administrator. Emily Forney and Umaima Saleem have joined BookEnds Literary Agency. Forney was most recently a publishing and editorial fellow for the LA Review of Books; Saleem was…
Book Fairs
Events: Virtual National Book Awards, and A Grant for Frankfurt
The National Book Awards ceremony on November 18 and all of the associated events will be held virtually this year. As a result, the organization will spread its events out, starting with the 5 Under 35 list on October 20. The NBA finalist reading is set for November 10 and Teen Press Conference held in…
People, Etc.
Dawn Durante will join University of Texas Press as editor in chief on August 10. She was previously senior acquisitions editor at University of Illinois Press. Catherine Zappa has been promoted to publisher and evp of film & television at Dreamscape Media. Rachel Spence has joined The Rights Factory as associate editor. She was previously…
Lagardere Publishing Divisions, Bloomsbury Will Also Avoid Frankfurt
Lagardere Publishing has joined Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Macmillan and others in announcing that none of its divisions from around the world will attend the Frankfurt Book Fair this year: “After carefully reflecting on the situation and also taking into consideration the health and safety of our employees and partners, we’ve decided that Hachette Livre…
Big Publishers Including HarperCollins Are Ready to Skip Frankfurt
Following Wednesday’s announcement that the Frankfurt Book Fair plans to proceed in limited form this October, at least some large publishing divisions have announced they will not attend. HarperCollins was the first to declare that it will not send employees from any of its divisions worldwide. “HarperCollins will not be taking a stand or sending…
Briefs
The National Book Festival will not be held at the Washington Convention Center this year. Instead, Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden announced, they will organize a virtual festival, with online events the weekend of September 25–27. The Bookseller’s YA Book Prize was given to Juno Dawson’s Meat Market (Quercus Children’s). McNally Jackson owner Sarah McNally…