At Macmillan, Jennifer Edwards was promoted to vp, children’s sales reporting to Jenn Gonzalez. At Putnam, Danielle Dieterich has been promoted to associate editor. Longtime CAA book-to-film agent Sally Willcox, has joined Paradigm, overseeing media rights, based in Beverly Hills. Mostly recently, Willcox worked at at Tobey Maguire’s Material overseeing acquisition and development. She was at CAA for 27 years before leaving in 2014. Harper UK is launching the nonfiction Mudlark imprint, promising “every book will showcase an interesting, original writer with a distinctive voice.” Jack Fogg leads the boutique line. Onetime Fourth Estate publisher Christopher Potter, who left in 2005, returns to […]
Free
Last Call for Buzz Nominations
One last call: If you haven’t submitted your title nominations for the forthcoming Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer and Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Spring/Summer samplers, you need to do so by this Friday, October 12. For more information, please contact Robin Dellabough, robin@publishersmarketplace.com. We’ll have a separate call/reminder for flagging your notable titles for our big seasonal previews, so stay tuned.
People, Etc.
Karen Yates has been promoted to associate literary agent at Yates & Yates. Helen Richard has been promoted to associate editor at Putnam. At Harper Collins, Ashley Mihlebach has been promoted to the newly-created position of director, sales for general books, national accounts, Amazon. Yale University Press celebrates co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics William Nordhaus; they publish his books The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World and A Question of Balance. Briefs Barnes & Noble‘s monthly Book Buzz newsletter does not name a “book of the month” selection for October, but the chain does point […]
Briefs: PRH to Launch Local Line In Singapore, and More
Penguin Random House South East Asia will launch in Singapore in 2019, to “discover and publish local and international voices across English-language adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction formats for Singapore and Malaysia, as well as from Thailand, the Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brunei, and Myanmar.” Gaurav Shrinagesh, ceo of Penguin Random House India and South East Asia, will oversee the company, with Nora Nazerene Abu Bakar joining as executive editor in November and reporting to Shrinagesh. Most recently Bakar was acquisitions manager at Marshall Cavendish Education. The company will do business as Penguin Books Singapore for now, with a formal […]
People, Etc.
The MacArthur Foundation announced its class of 25 fellows, and they include fiction writer Kelly Link, 49, and fiction and nonfiction writer John Keene, 53. Also receiving grants are poet Natalie Diaz, 40, and playwright Dominique Morisseau, 40. Just-announced co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Nadia Murad‘s memoir THE LAST GIRL was published a year ago by Tim Duggan Books, and is scheduled for trade paperback release on November 6. Jaime Mendola-Hobbie has been promoted to executive director of advertising and promotion for Berkley, Dutton, Putnam, and Plume. Ashley Fisher-Tranese is moves up to director, advertising. Vi-An Nguyen become associate art director, advertising. Publisher of Weidenfeld […]
November and December Buzz Books Monthly
Our monthly sampler program wraps up 2018 with November/December Buzz Books Monthly, available now on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. This edition is a mix of fiction, nonfiction, and romance, excerpting six titles due for publication in the last two months of the year. Fiction titles include Liars’ Paradox, the first in a new spy series from New York Times bestselling author Taylor Stevens, followed by Carrie Callaghan’s debut, A Light of Her Own, a fictional account of artist and Rembrandt contemporary Judith Leyster. Ariel Burger’s Witness:Lessons From Elie Wiesel’s Classroomis the nonfiction title, chronicling the conversations between teacher and student over decades. Three romance titles round out the sampler: Denise Hunter’s […]