Alyssa Miele has been promoted to editor at Harper Children’s. Stephanie Hess has joined Orbit as graphic designer, marketing. She was previously at Penguin Random House. Trisha Ping has rejoined BookPage, as publisher and editor-in-chief. Previously managing editor at the publication, Ping spent the last two years as destination editor for the Eastern United States at Lonely Planet. Science fiction writer Gene Wolfe, 87, author of The New Book of the Sun, has died. Book Clubs The LAT will start a book club this summer, under the direction of Donna Wares, focused “on books and authors relevant to Southern California […]
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Rob Wall has been promoted to art director at Little Bee Books. At Open Road Media, Sarah Mangiola has been promoted to executive editor, content strategy; Carolyn Cox to managing editor content strategy; Catherine Phelan to senior editor; Olivia Mason to audience development manager; Amanda Yee to director of email production; and Amanda Shaffer to senior designer. Eric Meyer has joined as metadata specialist and Mike Wynne as customer acquisition manager for Early Bird Books. Sammy Brown has been promoted to publicist at HMH Children’s. Marissa Page has joined HMH as publicity associate. She previously worked as a journalist. Awards National Book […]
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Makkai, Laymon, Thompson-Spires, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced winners in eleven categories on Friday night. Next up is the Pulitzers, to be announced Monday afternoon at 3. The LAT winners include: Fiction Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People (37 Ink) Biography David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Kiese Laymon, Heavy (Scribner) Current Interest Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead) Graphic Novel/Comics Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam (First Second) History Julia Boyd, Travelers In The Third Reich (Pegasus) Mystery/Thriller Oyinkan Braithwaite, […]
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Aly Mostel will join Harper One on April 18 as director of marketing, reporting to Laina Adler. She was senior director of communications at Rodale Books, and then worked as an independent marketing consultant. Julia Kent has been promoted to associate director of marketing, now reporting to Mostel. Carolyn Davidson has been promoted to marketing coordinator, supporting both Mostel and Kent. In the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sales department, Michael Harrigan has been promoted to executive director, Amazon; James Phirman to executive director of special sales; Emily Logan to national account manager; and Carissa Ray to sales manager. Additionally, Pilar Garcia-Brown […]
Real Sales Data, Broadly Accessible
We’ve had a great reception to our latest initiative opening up access to real book sales from Bookscan. It’s been a little over a month since we launched affordable monthly subscriptions to a limited package of NPD Bookscan sales data, that lets qualified members follow or research up to 5 different ISBNs a month. (Our Bookscan sales offer are available only to agents, scouts and authors.) Now anyone can afford to research and follow industry-standard book sales data whenever needed. For each ISBN, you’ll see actual, tracked US print sales for the most recent week, the year to date, and […]
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Alessandra Preziosi and Bethany Vinhateiro have both been promoted to senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s. Julius C. Jefferson Jr., section head of the Congressional Research Service at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC, has been elected president of the American Library Association. He will serve as president-elect for one year before becoming president at the 2020 ALA Annual Conference in Chicago. Awards In Australia, Vicki Laveau-Harvie‘s The Erratics won the Stella Prize, which celebrates women’s writing. Bookselling A new location of NYC’s McNally-Jackson has opened in The Shed, a new art and performance space at Hudson Yards. The […]