Hachette has joined Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and HarperCollins in withdrawing from Book Expo and Book Con. They wrote in a statement on Thursday, “With the impact of the coronavirus still an unknown, Hachette Book Group has decided to withdraw our participation in Book Expo and BookCon 2020 in the interest of the health and well-being of our employees and authors. We’ll miss having the opportunity to engage with booksellers, librarians, and readers but are committed to finding new ways to connect these audiences with our books and authors.”
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Director, Canada sales, Macmillan Hank Cochrane is moving to Picador as vp and associate publisher as of April 6. He will oversee the Picador list, and report to publisher of FSG and Picador Mitzi Angel, with a dotted line to Holt president and publisher Amy Einhorn. Angel says in the announcement, “Many of us at FSG, Holt, and St. Martin’s Press know Hank for his good humor, his intelligence, and his commitment to our books. With his deep publishing expertise and excellent understanding of the marketplace, he is the ideal leader to guide and grow our best-in-class paperback list.” Newly […]
Whiting Award Winners Named
The 2020 Whiting Award winners were announced online Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are: Fiction Andrea Lawlor (Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl, Knopf) Ling Ma (Severance, Farrar, Straus) Genevieve Sly Crane (Sorority, Scout Press) Nonfiction Jaquira Díaz (Ordinary Girls, Algonquin) Jia Tolentino (Trick Mirror, Random House) Poetry Aria Aber (Hard Damage, University of Nebraska Press) Diannely Antigua (Ugly Music, Yesyes books) Jake Skeets (Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers, Milkweed Editions) Genya Turovskaya (The Breathing Body of This Thought, Black Square Editions) Drama Will Arbery (Heroes of the Fourth Turning, Plano, Evanston Salt […]
Abrams Pledges At Least $50,000 In New Fundraiser to #HelpABookseller
Publisher Abrams launched a new #HELPABOOKSELLER fundraising challenge campaign to benefit BINC (Book Industry Charitable Foundation), looking to raise more than $100,ooo to help booksellers in need. Ceo Michael Jacobs says in the announcement, “As a company, we’ve been focused and committed to taking care of one another during this extraordinary time. We realized that what we possess at Abrams is a will and a drive to make a difference. So, we decided to raise funds to help booksellers in a way that brought our larger, interconnected book community together around this goal. Abrams’ corporate donation to BINC will comprise […]
Briefs: People, A PRH Bonus, Sales News, Status Reports and More
At Simon & Schuster, Melissa Hurt has been promoted to telemarketing account manager. Tricia Orlando joins as telesales account manager. She was previously with Norton in the trade sales department. Sharismar Rodriguez has joined Macmillan Children’s as senior art director for Feiwel and Friends, Holt, Roaring Brook Press, and FSG Children’s lists. Previously, she was art director at HMH. At HarperCollins Children’s, Jane Lee has been promoted to associate director, social media; Tyler Breitfeller to senior marketing associate; and Michael D’Angelo to marketing associate. Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally, 81, died Tuesday due to complications from the coronavirus. Wine writer Michael […]
ALA Cancels June Conference; Simon & Schuster Also Withdraws from Book Expo
The American Library Association’s executive board announced Tuesday that the scheduled June 25 to 30 ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition in Chicago has been canceled. President Wanda K. Brown said, “As the COVID-19 pandemic unfolds, it’s become clear that in the face of an unprecedented situation, we need to make tough choices.” It’s the first time since 1945 that the ALA has not held an annual conference. But Reed Exhibitions is still hoping to hold a delayed Book Expo and Book Con in New York in late July. Simon & Schuster joined PRH and HarperCollins on Tuesday afternoon in announcing […]