Kara Watson has been promoted to senior editor/marketing liaison at Scribner. Sara DeLozier has joined Viking/Penguin as publicist. She was most recently publicity coordinator at Picador. Executive director of the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance Wanda Jewell will next June, after 30 years of leading the organization. In the UK, Anne Meadows has been promoted to editorial director at Granta. Jenny Fry has been promoted to commercial director at Canongate, adding responsibility for sales. Elise Burns will move to Bonnier Books UK in mid-November as trade sales and export director, reporting to Perminder Mann. She is currently UK sales director at […]
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Andi Richman has joined Baker & Taylor Publisher Services as director of national accounts. She previously held national account positions at Guilford Press, Hay House, Harlequin and Dorling Kindersley. Matt Warner has joined as director of marketing. He most recently held senior positions at Barnes & Noble.com and Nook. Legal Retired Navy Commander Guy Snodgrass is the latest former government official to find his forthcoming book delayed because of an extended review process — and the latest to sue over that delay. The former communications director and speechwriter for James Mattis when he was Secretary of Defense argues the DOD has […]
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Chuck Deane has joined Sourcebooks as sales director. He was most recently vice president of sales (Americas) at Wiley. At Rebel Girls, Pam Gruber joins as editorial director. She was previously senior editor at Little, Brown Children’s. Grace House joins as project and contracts manager (she was assistant editor at Berkley), and Karen Chau has been promoted to licensing and partnerships associate. At HMH Children’s, Abigail Stahlman has joined as senior marketing designer; previously she was senior designer at Scholastic. Nadia Almahdi has joined as marketing manager; previously she was marketing manager at Little Bee Books. Kaitlyn Spotts has joined […]
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Isabel DaSilva has been promoted to associate marketing manager at Atria. RBmedia will publish over 170 audiobook editions of titles from sci-fi and fantasy publisher Baen Books over the next three years. Awards The Dayton Literary Peace Prize announced finalists: Fiction Insurrecto, by Gina Apostol (Soho Press) Sadness Is A White Bird, by Moriel Rothman Zecher (Atria) The Overstory, by Richard Powers (Norton) There There, by Tommy Orange (Knopf) What We Owe, by Golnaz Hashemzadeh (HMH) White Chrysanthemum, by Mary Lynn Bracht (Putnam) Nonfiction Educated, by Tara Westover (Random House) Frederick Douglass, by David Blight (Simon and Schuster) I Should […]
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Jeff Carroll will join Macmillan on September 3 as evp, marketing and consumer strategy, reporting to Maya Mavjee. He most recently led marketing efforts at Radio.com, after working at NBCUniversal and Viacom. Jaime Gelman has been promoted to assistant editor at BuzzPop. Awards The Rona Jaffe Foundation announced the winners of their annual writers’ awards: Selena Anderson (fiction), Magogodi oaMphela Makhene (fiction), Sarah Passino (poetry), Nicolette Polek (fiction), Elizabeth Schambelan (nonfiction), and Debbie Urbanski (fiction/nonfiction). Bookselling Philadelphia’s Penn Book Center in University City, which was in danger of closing at the end of the summer, will stay open under new ownership. […]
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Emma Hintzen has joined Sourcebooks eXplore as assistant editor. Bookselling Baltimore’s Greedy Reads will open a second location later this year in the Remington area. Owner Julia Fleischaker opened the first store in 2018. New bookstore Fabled Bookshop and Cafe in Waco, TX, opened over the weekend.