Mike Nardullo will join Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency as agent and rights director. He was previously foreign rights director and agent at Foundry Literary + Media. He succeeds Elizabeth Fisher who has been with LGR for over 15 years and is leaving the industry to pursue other interests. Noah Schwartzberg has joined Portfolio as…
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Amar Deol will join Atria as editor, moving over from Simon & Schuster and reporting to editorial director Lindsay Sagnette. Cara Duckworth joins the AAP as vice president, communications, reporting to John McKay. She has been at the Recording Industry Association of America since 2007, most recently as svp, communications. In the adult books group…
Reid’s Such A Fun Age Tops December Library Reads
Kiley Reid’s Such A Fun Age is the No. 1 pick for December Library Reads. Also on the list is Good Girls Lie by J.T. Ellison. Both are excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2019 Fall/Winter sampler. The rest of the picks: Africaville, by Jeffrey Colvin The Dead Girls Club, by Damien…
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Kara Watson has been promoted to executive editor at Scribner. John Meils has joined Workman Publishing as senior editor. He was most recently senior editor at Sterling Publishing. Ronnie Kutys has been promoted to manager, sales at Harper Collins. Raven Andrus has been promoted to sales support coordinator. Carol Brightman, 80, author of Writing Dangerously and…
The Bigger Lunchbox
We hope you enjoyed the small anniversary glimpse of what the full, longer Publishers Lunch Deluxe looks like — even though a few days isn’t really sufficient to represent all the additional news and analysis we provide to paid subscribers all the time. But it’s a start, at least. As we noted earlier in the…
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Legal Audible attorney Emily Reisbaum advised the court on Thursday that they are still in discussions with publishers regarding a potential resolution of the Captions lawsuit. Their next progress report will come on or before December 3. Awards Julia Lovell won the 2019 Cundill History Prize for Maoism (Knopf). Bookselling Mysterious Galaxy Bookstore in San…