At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Devin MacDonald has joined as marketing manager. She was most recently brand manager for Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, and Dog Man at Scholastic. Audrey Gibbons has been promoted to publicity manager; Jill Hacking moves up to marketing operations and events associate; Amy Hendricks becomes marketing associate; Samantha Benson has been promoted to associate publicist; and Emily Hutton becomes associate director of sales. Kjersti Egerdahl has been promoted to senior editor at Amazon Original Stories. Patrick Crotty joins Random House Graphic as designer. He was previously publisher and co-founder of Peow. Morgan Vogt has joined Sourcebooks as marketing associate. Tina Wilson has been promoted […]
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Alessandra Bastagli has joined Dey Street Books as executive editor. She was previously editorial director of Nation Books. Warren Bass will leave Penguin Press after almost a year to return to the Wall Street Journal’s weekend Review section, “with a nicely tailored portfolio of commissioning and editing big essays that’ll include lots of ongoing interface with the publishing world.” At Atria, Ariele Fredman has been promoted to associate director of publicity, and Alison Hinchcliffe moved up to associate publicist. Katie Zanecchia, formerly a literary agent at Ross Yoon Agency, has joined PEN America as national outreach program director. Pittsburgh former bookseller Mary Alice Gorman, […]
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Zachary Knoll has been promoted to associate editor at Simon & Schuster. Jeff Li joins Serial Box as chief operating officer. Most recently he led the ventures team at NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Networks. Awards The New Academy prize, formed to fill the gap left by the Swedish Academy’s decision to not award a Nobel for literature this year, was awarded to Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, who writes in French. A number of US publishers have her works in print. SEGU, published by Penguin, is her best known novel, and VICTOIRE: My Mother’s Mother, published by Simon & Schuster, is her most […]
Braithwaite Tops November Library Reads
Oyinkan Braithwaite’s My Sister, The Serial Killer is the top pick for November’s Library Reads list. The rest of the list: The Adults, Caroline Hulse The Best Bad Things, by Katrina Carrasco The Colors of All the Cattle, by Alexander McCall Smith Empire of Sand, by Tasha Suri How Long ‘Til Black Future Month?, by N. K. Jemisin The Kinship of Secrets, by Eugenia Kim A Ladder to the Sky, by John Boyne Newcomer, by Keigo Higashino Someone to Trust, by Mary Balogh
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At Post Hill Press, Heather King has joined as managing editor and Amy White as accounting and contracts administrator. Holly Pisarchuk has been promoted to director of finance. April Osborn has joined Mira as editor, acquiring crime/suspense and book club fiction. Previously, she was a senior associate editor at St. Martin’s. Suzie Sisoler has been expanded her role at Penguin Random House, with the new title of vice president, director, consumer engagement, . Publisher and ceo and publisher of Manual Moderno in Mexico Hugo Setzer was named the new president of the International Publishers Association, and svp at Elsevier Michiel Kolman, PhD was named […]
National Book Award Finalists Named
Finalists were named Wednesday morning for the National Book Awards, with the winners to be named on November 14. The fiction nominees including two story collections (Brinkley and Groff), and three titles from Penguin Random House imprints versus two small press candidates. Among the more prominent omissions from the longlist as Tommy Orange’s debut There, There and Tayari Jones’s An American Marriage. Fiction Nominees Jamel Brinkley, A Lucky Man (Graywolf Press) Lauren Groff, Florida (Riverhead) Brandon Hobson, Where the Dead Sit Talking (Soho Press) Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking) Sigrid Nunez, The Friend (Riverhead) Nonfiction Nominees Colin G. Calloway, […]