Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik is the top pick for July’s Library Reads list. Also on the list is Zoje Stage’s Baby Teeth, excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Spring/Summer sampler and available for download now. The rest of the picks: Clock Dance, by Anne Tyler Dear Mrs. Bird, by AJ Pearce Give Me Your Hand,…
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Laura Brown has joined Park Row Books as editor, moving over from the Harper imprint. Opening Sales THE PRESIDENT IS MISSING by Bill Clinton and James Patterson sold approximately 152,000 hardcovers in the first week on sale, as tracked by Bookscan through the outlets they monitor. The co-publishers trumpet it as the best first week…
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Dan Vidra has joined HarperCollins as associate director on the international sales team, managing US division sales in the open market. He replaces Alison Smith, who took over closed market sales. Vidra had a long career in international book sales, and worked for txtr and its various successor companies for the past six years. Julia Kardon has…
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At JKS Communications, Sara Wigal has been promoted to senior manager; Angelle Barbazon move ups to lead publicist; and Max Lopez become new author ambassador. Hannah Robertson joins as junior publicist. Leila Siddiqui has been promoted to assistant marketing manager at Dutton. As part of the Queen’s annual birthday honors, knighthoods were given to Nobel…
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Anthony Bourdain, 61, television host and author of Kitchen Confidential, died in Strasbourg, France of apparent suicide. Bourdain launched his own imprint at Ecco Press in 2011, Anthony Bourdain Books, publishing titles including: The Prophets of Smoked Meat by Daniel Vaughn; Grand Forks by Marilyn Hagerty; L.A. Son by Roy Choi, and the forthcoming We Fed An…
July and August Buzz Books
With the recent successful launch of our two Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter collections, we continue our monthly sampler program with the release of a combined July and August Buzz Books Monthly, available for download now on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. This latest edition features seven titles due for publication in the next two months, beginning with…