At Avid Reader Press, Carolyn Kelly has been promoted to assistant editor. Morgan Hoit becomes marketing manager. Kimberly Carlton has been promoted to acquisitions editor at Harper Christian. Ariele Fredman has been promoted to senior associate director of publicity at Atria. Jasmine Faustino is leaving Macmillan after 16 years, most recently at Macmillan Podcasts and Flatiron, to become a managing editor at Pushkin Industries. At Simon & Schuster, Rachel Berquist has been promoted to adult library marketing coordinator; Amy Beaudoin to children’s library marketing manager; Amanda Livingston to children’s library marketing coordinator; Saimah Haque to director of advertising & paid digital media; […]
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Lane Zachary will join Massie & McQuilkin Literary Agents, continuing to represent many of her current clients as well as new writers of literary fiction, memoir, and creative nonfiction. At Simon & Schuster, Sienna Farris will take the new position of vp, director of multicultural marketing, serving as “a company-wide, senior marketing expert and champion for our multicultural publishing,” reporting to Liz Perl. At Random House Children’s, Alison Stoltzfus has been promoted to senior director, publishing, for Princeton Review and Sylvan Learning. Suzanne Lee has joined the art department as designer, moving over from Princeton Review and Sylvan Learning. Larsson […]
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Beth Meacham, executive editor at Tor/Tom Doherty Associates will retire at the end of the year. She joined Tor as editor-in-chief in 1984. President and publisher Fritz Foy writes, “We’re delighted that Beth will continue to edit a small number of projects for us on a consulting basis. But most of her list will be moving to other editors as she prepares for her retirement.” Rob Dawson has launched Books to Market Canada, providing sales, marketing and distribution solutions for publishers. He was previously managing director at Georgetown Publications. Bennet Johnson has joined Sourcebooks as marketing specialist. Robin Robertson, associate […]
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SVP international sales and rights at Abrams, Mary Wowk will retire on December 31. Wowk joined Abrams in March 2007 as vp sales. Her long career in publishing has included working at Houghton Mifflin, Little Brown, Simon & Schuster, Anness Publishing, and Black Dog & Leventhal. At Viking Penguin, Maya Baran has been promoted to assistant director of publicity; Kristina Fazzalaro to publicity manager; and Ciara Johnson to associate publicist. Ilana Gold has joined Workman Publishing as assistant director of publicity. She was previously at Hilsinger-Mendelson. An effort is underway to find a buyer who will save the Venice, FL […]
NBA Nominees Feature New Names, Broad Selection of Publishers
The National Book Awards announced their finalists, with winners to be named on November 18. Everyone who wins this year will be a first-time honoree, since none of the authors has been a finalist previously. Douglas Stuart remains in contention for both the National Book Award for fiction as well as the Booker Prize. The biggest publishers are thoroughly under-represented this year, publishing only two of the fiction nominees, one of the nonfiction candidates, none of the poetry finalists, and two of the translated literature titles. Fiction Rumaan Alam, Leave the World Behind (Ecco) Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible (Norton) […]
New Books Publishing October 5
It’s another packed first week of the month, with big new releases in all categories. As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 19 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-october-6 23 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-october-6 29 new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-orctoberber 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 sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this […]