Paige Allen has joined Ingram Spark as director. She was most recently coo of the Horton Group, a web design and digital marketing agency in Nashville. Heather Drucker has been promoted to senior director of publicity for Harper Perennial and the Harper Paperbacks group. She will continue to work on Harper and Harper Business titles, as well. At Simon & Schuster, Amanda Mulholland, Paige Lytle, and Caroline Pallotta have each been promoted to managing editor. Annie Craig becomes associate managing editor. Katie Corcoran Lytle has been promoted to associate director of development at Adams Media. Kalen R. Landow has joined […]
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Joyce’s Miss Benson’s Beetle Tops November Library Reads
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce is the top pick for the November Library Reads. Also on the list is Danielle Evans’ The Office of Historical Corrections, excerpted and available to sample now in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi The Boy Toy, by Nicola March The Burning God, by R. F. Kuang Murder in Old Bombay, by Nev March The Star-Crossed Sisters of Tuscany, by Lori Nelson Spielman This Time Next Year We’ll Be Laughing, by Jacqueline Winspear White Ivy, by Susie Yang Written in the Stars, […]
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Bryn Clark has been promoted to senior editor at Flatiron Books. At Simon & Schuster, Emily Graff and Carina Guiterman have each been promoted to senior editor. Emily Simonson has been promoted to associate editor and Lashanda Anakwah assistant editor. Elizabeth Gay has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, and Kirstin Berndt to senior publicist. At Harper Children’s Harper group, Maria Barbo has been promoted to executive editor; Stephanie Stein to senior editor; Elizabeth Lynch to editor; Megan Ilnitzki to editor; and Louisa Currigan and Clare Vaughn both to assistant editor. At others imprints, Courtney Stevenson moves up to associate […]
NYT On the Struggles of Indie Booksellers
The NYT explains to general readers the challenging situation for many independent booksellers as they balance hopes for the critical holiday season against the challenges of shopping in a pandemic — exacerbated by limits on printing and reprints, and slower and more expensive shipping, and higher expenses regardless. The ABA surveyed members in July and among the approximately 400 respondents, a third said their sales were down 40 percent or more for the year. That 40 percent is in line with what Vroman’s in Los Angeles told customers when appealing for help to survive. Twenty-six percent indicated sales were flat, […]
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Alicia Clancy has been promoted to senior editor at Lake Union Publishing. Simon & Schuster Children’s has announced the expansion and reorganization of the digital marketing department, creating dedicated teams aligned with their social verticals. In the teen category, Emily Ritter has been promoted to senior manager, digital & social marketing, and Annika Voss to digital & social marketing associate. In kids’ books, Kate Bouchard has been promoted to digital & social marketing associate. Yasleen Trinidad will join in the newly created position of associate content manager, digital marketing. Ebony LaDelle has been promoted to director, marketing at Harper Children’s, continuing to […]
Time to Vote
It is your right and your responsibility to vote, and people across the spectrum seem to agree that this is a critical election for our nation. The pandemic has made voting more complicated than ever, and many factors have made voting more time-consuming than ever. With early voting now underway in almost every state, we asked a variety of companies of scale in our industry from around the country about their policies to provide employees paid time off to participate. In addition, some companies also told us about special policies for volunteering to work the polls — “for which there […]