At Crown Publishing, Diana Baroni has been promoted to senior vice president and editor in chief of Harmony Books and Rodale Books. Doris Cooper becomes senior vice president and editor in chief of Clarkson Potter, and Lorena Jones moves up to senior vice president and editor in chief of Ten Speed Press. Kaiya Muniz has joined the national accounts children’s sales team at Simon & Schuster. She was previously children’s national account sales associate at Hachette. Scholastic Trade announced a number of promotions: Vanessa Han has been promoted to senior designer at Klutz; Kim Rogers to associate product editor at Klutz; Nick Thomas to senior editor, Arthur A. Levine Books; Kait Feldman to editor, Arthur […]
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February Bookseller Picks
Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for Feburary is The Night Tiger by Yangsze Choo and their Featured Debut is The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides. The rest of the list: Underground, by Will Hunt The Unwinding of the Miracle, by Julie Yip-Williams Early Riser, by Jasper Fford Sounds Like Titanic, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman The City in the Middle of the Night, by Charlie Jane Anders The Lost Man, by Jane Harper The Age of Light, by Whitney Scharer Good Kids, Bad City, by Kyle Swenson Apple Books also chose the Michaelides, Scharer, and Kindman, as well as: Black Leopard, Red Wolf, […]
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Kathy Dunn has been promoted to executive publicist at Random House Children’s. There will be a memorial service for the late Claudio López de Lamadrid at this year’s London Book Fair, on Wednesday, March 13, at 4.30pm, in room 2, at the Conference Center on the third floor of London Olympia. Forthcoming Bonnier Zaffre will publish a sequel to The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris, CILKA’S JOURNEY, on October 3 in the UK. Distribution Hachette Book Group USA will take over distribution of Summersdale from Trafalgar Square on March 1. Hachette UK’s Octopus Books acquired Summersdale in late 2017.
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Pieter Swinkels has been promoted to chief content officer at Rakuten Kobo. Additionally, Alan MacNevin has been promoted to chief operating officer; Marianne Hamilton to chief marketing officer; and Dave Anderson to chief strategy officer. At Macmillan Children’s, Carol Ly has been promoted to senior designer and Sophie Erb to associate designer. Emily Settle has been promoted to associate editor at Feiwel and Friends and Swoon Reads. Picks The Wife by Meg Wolitzer is the February pick for the PBS NewsHour-New York Times book club. The Costco Pennie’s Pick for February is The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald. Awards Biography The Cut Out Girl by Bart […]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has “realigned” its sales team. Ed Spade has been promoted to vp, national accounts, trade sales & strategy, co-leading the sales team with Colleen Murphy, vp, special markets, mass market, and product development. As a result, Maire Gorman, svp trade sales, has left the company. Additionally, Christine Sikule has joined HMH in the new role of director of sales analytics. She was previously metadata manager at Penguin Random House. Connor Guy joins Basic Books as editor on February 4. Most recently, he was associate editor at Metropolitan Books. In the UK, Amanda Ridout is launching Boldwood Books, publishing commercial fiction. The company […]
Newbery to Medina, Caldecott to Blackall, and More
The American Library Association presented their annual book awards at their mid-winter meeting in Seattle. On Monday morning, at the Youth Media Awards, the Newbery medal went to Meg Medina for Merci Suarez Changes Gears (Candlewick) and the Caldecott Medal to Sophie Blackall for Hello Lighthouse (Little, Brown). National Book Award winner The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo (HarperTeen) won the Michael L. Printz Award for excellence in young adult literature (it also won the Pura Belpre Award for Text). The William C. Morris debut award went to Darius the Great Is Not Okay by Adib Khorram (Dial), while The Unwanted by Don Brown (HMH) won the Excellence in Nonfiction […]