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 […]
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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 […]
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Craig Popelars is joining Tin House Books as publisher, starting June 1. He was previously associate publisher at Algonquin Books. Win McCormack, current publisher and owner of Tin House Books, says, “Craig Popelars is a powerhouse in the field. He has exactly the kind of vision, energy, and experience needed to take Tin House Books to the next level.” At Penguin Random House Canada, Robert Wheaton expands his role to include strategy, becoming chief strategy and operations officer. He continues to report to ceo Kristin Cochrane. Charidy Johnston moves up to vp, sales, continuing to report to Wheaton. She takes […]
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The Swedish Academy, which awards the Nobel Prize for literature, has named Mats Malm its new permanent secretary. The previous permanent secretary, Sara Danius, resigned last April after a sexual harassment and leaking scandal. Anders Olsson has been filling the role since last June. Malm, a professor of literary theory at the University of Gothenburg, joined the academy four months ago. Katie Hope will join the Princeton University Press as marketing director in June, leading marketing and sales teams in Princeton and Oxford. She was most recently director of marketing and author relations at MIT Press. Jake-Ryan Kent was promoted […]
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Quarto’s interim chief financial officer Michael Mousley has been named a non-executive director. Group finance director Steven Grace will oversee finance for now, and an undisclosed new chief financial officer will join the company in July. Separately, Pearson has added two independent non-executive directors to its board: Graeme Pitkethly, CFO at Unilever, and Sherry Coutu, an entrepreneur and angel investor who founded Interactive Investor International plc and currently chairs Founders4Schools, Raspberry Pi Trading and the Scale-Up Institute. At Chronicle, Aki Neumann has been hired as junior production designer, children’s (she was a project editor for Octane Press). Former Angry Robot […]