With the 15th annual Winter Institute kicking off next week in Baltimore, today we launch our big Buzz Books 2020 Spring/Summer sampler. Now in its tenth year, this sampler offers excerpts from 44 of the most buzzed-about books scheduled for publication this spring and summer as an exclusive, free ebook. Eleven of the featured authors are slated to appear at Winter Institute. The consumer editions are available for download now for Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Apple’s Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo, among other online retailers, with click-throughs for preorders. (Also all linked at our main Buzz Books website.) Our full trade editions include marketing and […]
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In the wake of John Fallon‘s plan to retire as chief executive of Pearson, longtime chief financial officer Coram Williams has read the signs and taken a “comparable role at a company based in Continental Europe.” Williams will leave the company and its board later this year after a transition period, and deputy cfo Sally Johnson will take over his role. Alida Becker will retire from the NYT Book Review, where she has worked for over 30 years as preview editor, on January 25, though she will continue her association as a contributor and columnist. Senior staff editor on the […]
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Rachel Fershleiser will join Counterpoint Press/Catapult/Soft Skull in early February as associate publisher, executive marketing director. She was senior director of marketing at Knopf. Also in February, Alyson Forbes will join the company as associate publisher, head of sales. She was vp, executive director of marketing strategy at Hachette Book Group. Emma Brodie will join Little, Brown’s Voracious on January 29 as executive editor, reporting to Michael Szczerban. She was previously senior editor for the Morrow Gift line at William Morrow. At Sourcebooks, Meg Gibbons has been promoted to senior editor, Simple Truths. At Doubleday, Nora Grubb and Cara Reilly have […]
People: Rubin to Leave Holt
Following the appointment of Amy Einhorn as president and publisher of Holt last September, the publisher’s chairman Steve Rubin will move on. He writes, “I have just celebrated my tenth anniversary at Henry Holt and, after considerable thought, have decided this is the perfect time to move on. My time here has been among the happiest in my career because not only has Holt been reborn and reenergized, but also working at Macmillan has been so satisfying. I spent 30 years at various incarnations of Bantam Doubleday Dell and Random House, and while I was for the most part very […]
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Lisa Donovan, vice president and executive managing editor at Simon & Schuster Children’s will retire on March 20, after 20 years with the company. Jon Anderson, president and publishers of S&S Children’s said in the announcement, “It is no exaggeration to say that for twenty years, Lisa has been the nexus of the entire Children’s Publishing Division. Her flawless supervision of a massively talented staff of managing editors, production editors, copyeditors and proofreaders has shepherded from manuscript to finished book at least 15,000 titles in every one of our huge variety of publishing formats.” At Harper Children’s, Audrey Steuerwald has […]
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Nancy Brennan will join Candlewick as executive art director, starting January 16. She has worked at Viking Children’s for 18 years. Katherine Wessbecher has joined the Bradford Literary Agency as literary agent. Previously, she was associate editor at Putnam Children’s. At Severn House, owned by Canongate, publisher Kate Lyall Grant has joined the company’s board. Ten Speed Press executive editor Lisa Westmoreland has “embarked on a new adventure” and is no longer at the company. Jason Reynolds will succeed Jacqueline Woodson as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature for the next two years, announced jointly by The Library of Congress, […]