Ailah Ahmed has been promoted to publishing director at Little Brown UK. Picks Way to go, GMA! After announcing their first two Cover to Cover Book Club picks in the middle of the month, the program is on it for December — with an early announcement that Tomi Adeyemi‘s Children of Virtue and Vengeance is their December Book Club selection. Bookselling As Barnes & Noble faces a lawsuit from a veteran former California bookseller alleging age discrimination and claiming that the chain’s real strategy is “we’re no longer hiring book people. going forward, we’re only hiring sales people,'” ceo James […]
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Christine Edwards will join Harper Collins in the newly created role of svp, sales on December 30, reporting to Josh Marwell. She is currently vp, group sales director for Crown Publishing Group as well as vp, group sales director for Penguin Random House Audio. At Harlequin Trade, Jennifer Choi has joined as manager, subsidiary rights; she was previously at Penguin Publishing Group. Cat Clyne has joined as editor for HQN/Graydon House; she was at Sourcebooks. Samantha McVeigh has joined as publicist; she was at Kensington. In the UK, Doyel Maitra will join Hachette UK as group communications director in March […]
The New York Times Best 10 of 2019
An energized crowd of bibliophiles gathered at The New York Times Center on 42nd Street for the unveiling of the annual Best 10 Books list. Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, moderated a panel of Times editors and reviewers assembled to discuss their selections. This year’s list features the rare science fiction selection in Ted Chiang’s short-story collection Exhalation. (Three fiction selections are from Knopf and a fourth from Doubleday.) Fiction: Disappearing Earth, by Julia Phillips The Topeka School, by Ben Lerner (a Buzz Books 2019 selection) Exhalation, by Ted Chiang Lost Children Archive, by Valeria […]
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Maggie Richards has been promoted to svp associate publisher at Holt. Serena Jones, promoted to editor-in-chief earlier this year, has stepped back from that position and is executive editor “to devote more time to her books and authors,” as new president and publisher Amy Einhorn looks for a new editor-in-chief. Claire Harris has been promoted to foreign rights director at Foundry Literary + Media. Luke McCord has joined Random House Children’s Books as a Production Associate. He was previously a Production Editor at Peter Lang Publishing. The American Booksellers Association’s inaugural Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards have gone to Billie Bloebaum at Third […]
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Mike Nardullo will join Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency as agent and rights director. He was previously foreign rights director and agent at Foundry Literary + Media. He succeeds Elizabeth Fisher who has been with LGR for over 15 years and is leaving the industry to pursue other interests. Noah Schwartzberg has joined Portfolio as senior editor. He was previously senior editor at McGraw-Hill. At Random House Children’s, Megan Williams has been promoted to managing editor, operations; Elena Meuse becomes associate, publicity & corporate communications; and Kelly McGauley moves up to director, trade marketing. Alexis Banyon has joined Sourcebooks as […]
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Amar Deol will join Atria as editor, moving over from Simon & Schuster and reporting to editorial director Lindsay Sagnette. Cara Duckworth joins the AAP as vice president, communications, reporting to John McKay. She has been at the Recording Industry Association of America since 2007, most recently as svp, communications. In the adult books group at Abrams, Shannon Kelly has joined as associate editor (she was at Penguin); Jessica Wiener is senior director of marketing (she was marketing director at Holt); and Kim Lew has been promoted to senior manager of marketing. At Thomas Nelson Gift and Zondervan Gift, Jennifer Gott […]