Paul Samuelson will join Scribner as a deputy director of publicity on March 22. He was most recently director of publicity for Twelve Books. Emily Fisher has joined William Morrow as senior publicist. She was previously publicist at Bloomsbury. Rayshma Arjune has been promoted to publicity manager, special interest and Osprey at Bloomsbury At Flatiron, Louis Grilli has been promoted assistant manager, publishing operations; Sydney Jeon to assistant editor; Christopher Smith to senior publicity manager; Claire McLaughlin to senior publicist; Erin Gordon to assistant art director, marketing; Katherine Turro to assistant director, marketing; and Keith Hayes to vp, creative director. Terrence […]
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New Books Publishing March 9
This week, Walter Isaacson’s timely history of the CRISPR gene editing is among the nonfiction releases, alongside a bevy of new fiction, including Imbolo Mbue’s How Beautiful We Were, Kate Quinn’s The Rose Code, and Thomas Grattan’s debut Recent East. Amanda Dennis’s Her Here, an existential detective story, was excerpted in our Spring/Summer Buzz Books, downloadable here. 17 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_March_/219096 6 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-9 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_March_/219097 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make […]
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At Bloomsbury, Morgan Jones has been promoted to associate editor; Elizabeth Ellis to assistant editor; Mia Kwon to associate designer, adult trade; Nicole Jarvis to marketing director, adult trade; and Emily Fishman to associate publicist. At Tom Doherty Associates, Laura Etzkorn and Libby Collins have each been promoted to senior publicist, and Giselle Gonzalez has been promoted to assistant publicist. Marc Visnick has joined TKO Studios in the newly-created position of vp of sales and business development. Previously, he worked at Ingram as senior business development manager. Colleen Lindsay joins the company as senior manager, marketing and social media, reporting […]
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Jennifer Kasius has joined the ghostwriting and publishing services firm Kevin Anderson & Associates as executive editor. She was previously editorial director at Running Press. Melinda Kennedy has joined The Experiment as senior publicist. She was previously marketing manager at University of Chicago Press. At Penguin Canada, Deborah Sun de la Cruz has been promoted to editor, and Laura Dosky has been promoted to associate editor. Honors The American Academy of Arts and Letters added 33 new members as part of a diversity and inclusion effort, including writers: Hilton Als, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Joy Harjo, Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth Kolbert, Sigrid Nunez, […]
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Callie Garnett has been promoted to senior editor at Bloomsbury. At First Second, Molly Johanson has been promoted to designer, and Sunny Lee has been promoted to senior designer. Fellowships Zibby Owens, host of the Moms Don’t Have Time to Read Books podcast, has launched a fellowship for debut women memoir writers to complete their first, book-length manuscript. The Moms Don’t Have Time To Fellowship is a 12-month program, pairing 2-4 authors a year with editor mentors “to encourage a diversity of perspectives, and to give new writers outside the literary establishment the tools, skills, and knowledge they’ll need to […]
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Susan Dobinick has joined Boyds Mills Press as senior editor. She was previously with Bloomsbury Children’s. Diane Mangan has joined Andrews McMeel as children’s marketing director, based in Chicago and reporting to vice president, publishing sales Lynne McAdoo. Most recently she led the team at Follett that curated school book fairs. Emily Nemens is stepping down as editor of The Paris Review, three years after taking the position. She wrote in a letter to readers, “I am leaving The Paris Review to write my next book. Hopefully, eventually, I’ll edit again—connecting writers to readers is among the world’s best professions.” Nemens succeeded […]