Susan Graham has been promoted to agent at Einstein Literary Management, handling children’s and YA properties as well as adult sci-fi/fantasy. Jenny Lee will join Basic Books on May 6 as publicist. Most recently, she was a publicist at Crown. Michael Ploetz has joined DK as associate marketing manager, children’s. He was previously marketing & publicity Coordinator at Little Bee Books. Bookselling NYC’s Shakespeare & Co. will open a new location, its fourth, in Brookfield Place at 230 Vesey Street in lower Manhattan. The modest 2,300 square feet will still include an event space and a cafe.
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Acquisitions: PRH Buys Salamandra, Scholastic’s Film Investment, and More
Already the world’s largest Spanish-language publisher, Penguin Random House continues to build on that position with another acquisition, agreeing to acquire Barcelona-based Ediciones Salamandra from Sigrid Kraus and Pedro del Carril. The company has over 500 authors on their list. Kraus will remain as publishing manager, “working closely” with PRH Grupo Editorial ceo Núria Cabutí. PRH ceo Markus Dohle underscores in the announcement, “Penguin Random House strongly believes in the global growth potential of the Spanish-language market, and we very much look forward to bringing Ediciones Salamandra’s authors to an even wider readership.” Pedro del Carril adds: “Of all the […]
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Bridget Smith is joining Jabberwocky Literary Agency as an agent, representing middle grade, young adult, and adult fiction. She was formerly at Dunham Literary. At Chronicle Books, Chelsea Masquelier has become operations coordinator. As expected, the ABA membership officially elected four new directors and a new president and vice president, per the nominations announced in February. The transition, in which vice president Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC will become president and Bradley Graham of Politics & Prose in Washington, DC will become vice president/secretary, occurs at Book Expo. Current president Robert Sindelar and board member Annie Philbrick […]
More May Picks: Apple Books, Reese’s Book Club, and More
Apple Books announced its May picks, which include Sara Collins’ The Confessions of Frannie Langton, excerpted and available for download now in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the list: Exhalation, by Ted Chiang Furious Hours, by Casey Cep The Paris Diversion, by Chris Pavone Middlegame, Seanan McGuire With the Fire on High, Elizabeth Acevedo The Pioneers, by David McCullough Once More We Saw Stars, by Jayson Greene Eat Like a Fish, by Bren Smith Cari Mora, by Thomas Harris Riots I Have Known, by Ryan Chapman Queen Bee, by Dorothea Benton Frank Elsewhere, Reese Witherspoon chose […]
May Bookseller Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for May is Furious Hours by Casey Cep, and its Featured Debut is Riots I Have Known by Ryan Chapman. Also on the list is Sarah Blake’s The Guest Book, which is excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of the picks: Bitcoin Billionaires, by Ben Mezrich Correspondents, by Tim Murphy A Job You Mostly Won’t Know How to Do, by Pete Fromm The Apology, by Eve Ensler The Deer Camp, by Dean Kuipers Cari Mora, by Thomas Harris Once More We Saw Stars, by Jayson Greene Barnes & Noble […]
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Pippa Wright joins Orion Spring this summer as publishing director, reporting to publisher Amanda Harris. She was previously rights director at Cornerstone. Becky Odell has been promoted to publicist at Dutton. Liz Gately is now scouting for Horizon in China. Reviews The San Francisco Chronicle‘s new contributing books editor Patrick Thomas explains how books are selected for review: “Simply put: Trust in the collective wisdom of the books community. Every week this will include personal correspondence with Bay Area booksellers, writers from here and around the world, and global publishing house executives, as well as consulting prepublication reviews that librarians […]