At Grand Central, Alex Logan has been promoted to executive editor; Morgan Hedden to associate editor; Elizabeth Kulhanek to associate editor; Jordan Rubinstein to publicist; Danielle Egnozzi to marketing designer; Estelle Hallick to manager, marketing & publicity, Forever; and Monisha Lakhotia to assistant marketing manager, Forever. Gabriella Mongelli has been promoted to assistant editor at Putnam. Kristen Steele, director of marketing and publisher relations for Baker & Taylor Publisher Services/Bookmasters, will leave the company on March 6. Dan Berkowitz has left his position as digital director at Writers House to open a consultancy, AuthorPop, working with authors on all things […]
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March Picks From Reese, Apple Books
Last summer Reese Witherspoon‘s production company Hello Sunshine and Amazon Studios announced a co-production of a 13-episode series based on Taylor Jenkins Reid‘s forthcoming DAISY JONES & THE SIX. So it should be surprise that the book is also the March pick for Witherspoon’s book club (as well as Amazon’s “spotlight pick” for the month). In other selections, I Was Anastasia by Ariel Lawhon is Pennie’s Pick at Costco for the month. Also, Apple Books‘ Best Books of March includes: Outer Order, Inner Calm, by Gretchen Rubin The Stranger Diaries, by Elly Griffiths Spies of No Country, by Matti Friedman […]
March Bookseller Picks
Amazon’s Spotlight Pick for March is Daisy Jones & The Six by Taylor Jenkins Reid and their Featured Debut is The Old Drift by Namwali Serpell. The rest of the list: The Impossible Climb, by Mark Synnott The Priory of the Orange Tree, by Samantha Shannon Say Nothing, by Patrick Radden Keefe The Lost Night, by Andrea Bartz The River, by Peter Heller A Woman Is No Man, by Etaf Rum An American Summer, by Alex Kotlowitz A Friend Is a Gift You Give Yourself, by William Boyle Barnes & Noble‘s picks for the month include the Reid as well […]
People, Etc.
Macmillan is restructuring its sales team “to more closely align with the needs of Macmillan’s customers and its publishers.” Their separate major account teams will be eliminated, with a single, unified trade team under John Edwards, promoted to the new position of vp, trade and Canada sales. Svp, online digital sales operations and analysis Tom Stouras will now oversee the ebooks sales team, and will continue to manage the Amazon team. VP, adult mass merchandise sales Laura Pennock will expand her responsibilities to add management of the distribution sales team. Brian Heller moves into the new role of vp, academic, […]
People, Etc.
San Francisco Chronicle books editor John McMurtrie announced on Twitter on Wednesday, “I got laid off.” He added, “The bright side? More time for reading.” (Separately, arts and entertainment editor and Sunday datebook editor Leba Hertz tell us she is retiring at the end of the week, by her choice.) We queried editor-in-chief Audrey Cooper about what McMurtrie’s dismissal means for their coverage, and she writes: “We still plan on having robust coverage of books, including reviews. This personnel decision is not a reflection of the importance of that content for The Chronicle.” Lisa Erwin has been promoted to director […]
Silicon Valley Foundation Crankstart Is New Booker Prize Funder
The flicker of false (and you might say falsely-targeted) hope in the UK trade that a new sponsor for the Booker Prize might let them remove Americans from contention has probably been extinguished — since the new sponsors live in California. (The Booker Foundation insists, “A sponsor or funder has no say over the rules.”) Sequoia Capital billionaire partner Michael Moritz and his wife Harriet Heyman, both writers and philanthropists, have agreed to fund the prizes for at least five years starting June 1, after the 2019 International Booker winner is announced, through Crankstart, their charitable foundation. They will spare […]