James Patterson is making a personal donation of $500,000 to help save independent bookstores across the country, as part of a new fund to be administered by BINC (Book Industry Charitable Foundation) that is raising money to support stores rather than individual booksellers in need. Patterson is joining with Reese Witherspoon, as well as the ABA, in a new awareness and fundraising campaign, #SaveIndieBookstores, running through April 30. BINC will distribute the pool of funds raised to eligible independent bookstores “by May 15.” Apparently those grants will be available to ABA member stores only. The site indicates, “Funds received are […]
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Siobhan McBride has joined Carnicelli Literary Management as associate agent representing literary and commercial fiction and narrative nonfiction. She was most recently at Sobel Weber Associates. Tammy Faxel, 55, publisher at Dreamscape Media, died on March 30. She joined Dreamscape in 2014, and helped grow the company’s audiobook publishing program to over 900 titles annually. Prior to that, she led Waterfall Press for Brilliance Publishing, after working at Tyndale House and Oasis Audio. Picks Reese Witherspoon chose Untamed by Glennon Doyle as her April book club pick. Pennie’s Pick at Costco for April is a new hardcover release, The Yellow Bird […]
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Cheryl Eissing has been promoted to associate editor at Philomel Books. Mary Moates has joined St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books as publicity manager. She was previously publicist at Random House. Ginny Dominguez has joined Macmillan Children’s as studio manager for the Roaring Brook Press, FSG, Feiwel and Friends, and Holt Children’s design team. She was previously a managing editor at Abrams. Bridget Kinsella has joined Stanford University Press as publicist. Most recently, she was publicity manager at Harper One. Distribution Status Hachette Book Group reports that their new operating model in the Lebanon, IN warehouse “incorporates social distancing while enabling us to […]
Briefs: Aid for Canadian Authors, Kobo Expands In Australia, Bertram’s Closes and More
The Writers’ Trust of Canada and The Writers’ Union of Canada (TWUC) created a Canadian Writers’ Emergency Relief Fund to support professional authors. The fund will distribute grants of $1,500 to “writers that have seen contracted or projected income evaporate due to the current public health crisis.” RBC joined the two organizations in funding the initial pool of $150,000. Rakuten Kobo has formed a joint venture with Australia’s largest online bookseller, Booktopia, to sell ebooks, digitial audiobooks, and ereading devices. In the UK, distributor Bertram’s has joined Gardner’s in temporarily suspending all operations, and the company is furloughing its staff, […]
April Picks
Amazon‘s April Spotlight Pick is Ariel Lawhon’s Code Name Helene and their featured debut is Phuc Tran’s Sigh, Gone. Also on the list are Veronica Roth’s Chosen Ones and Elizabeth Wetmore’s Valentine, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the April picks: Hidden Valley Road, by Robert Kolker Conjure Women, by Afia Atakore The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires, by Grady Hendrix Pretty Things, by Janelle Brown How Much of These Hills Is Gold, by C Pam Zhang Three Hours in Paris, by Cara Black Barnes & Noble’s Books of […]
Highlighting This Week’s New Releases
Here are 11 notable novels, 8 notable works of nonfiction, and 3 new YA novels that publish today, viewable in our sample Aerbook and Bookshop storefronts. As we described last week, both platforms are quick and easy to set up and both are powered by Ingram on the backend to sell and fulfill orders. We’re donating any proceeds to BINC, but the main point is to call attention to the week’s new releases, as well as demonstrate these simple options for authors, publishers, booksellers and influencers to promote and sell books. Note that starting in mid-April, you will see a […]