The ABA named Virgil Wander by Leif Enger as its No. 1 pick for October. Other picks include Stuart Turton’s The 71/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, and Imogen Hermes Gowar’s The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter. The rest of the list: Waiting for Eden, by Elliot Ackerman November Road, by Lou Berney Heartland, by Sarah Smarsh All You Can Ever Know, by Nicole Chung A Spark of Light, by Jodi Picoult The Real Lolita, by Sarah Weinman Transcription, by Kate Atkinson Night Moves, by Jessica Hopper Man With a Seagull on His Head, […]
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Jennifer Schuster has left Crown Archetype, where she was an executive editor, to launch Jen Schuster Editorial Services, providing developmental editing, ghostwriting, proposal development, and consulting services. In an update to our report on Folio Literary Management acquiring Harold Ober Associates, Phyllis Westberg and Craig Tenney are retiring, and other Ober personnel will join Folio. Bookselling Laurel Book Store in Oakland closed on Friday, after a relocation downtown four years ago caused financial troubles. Last July, owner Luan Stauss asked customers to help raise $30,000 she needed to catch up in rent. She wrote in a final newsletter to customers, […]
Briefs: A New Marquez, Salinger’s 100th, Center for Fiction Nominees, and More
Forthcoming Vintage Español will published a selection of journalism by the late Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez, El Escándalo del Siglo (October 23, 2018). An English-language edition of The Scandal of the Century will be published by Knopf in May 2019. The book will include an introduction by Jon Lee Anderson and an editor’s note by Cristóbal Pera, Márquez’s longtime editor and friend, who also selected the articles that appear in the book. Awards The Center for Fiction has announced the seven title shortlist for its $10,000 First Novel Prize, with the winner to be named on December 11: Asymmetry, […]
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Founder of Blue Rider Press (and longtime publisher at Simon & Schuster before that) David Rosenthal has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editor at large. Svp and publisher Bruce Nichols said, “I have known and admired David for many years, and I am thrilled that he will bring his creativity, keen editorial eye, and astonishing list of contacts to HMH.” Simon & Schuster has restructured its sales division, including the following promotions and hires: Paula Amendolara has been promoted to vp, director of national accounts, adding responsibility for sales to mass market retailers and airports, as well as the key distributors […]
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Rebecca Smart will join DK in January in the new role role of managing director, publishing, overseeing design, UK marketing and PR, publishing operations and Alpha Books in Indianapolis. She has been managing director at Ebury for the past 4 years. DK ceo Ian Hudson said in the announcement, “Rebecca’s appointment is an important step for the company…. With her mix of strategic leadership and commercial experience, combined with her vision, creativity and passion, she will lead the evolution of our global publishing, and seek out new digital and business development opportunities.” Claire Payne joins Sourcebooks as director of sales, […]
October Buzz Books Monthly
We continue to preview fall’s big titles in our October Buzz Books Monthly, available now on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. In this sampler, you’ll find exclusive excerpts of seven titles being released in October, including Barbara Kingsolver’s new novel Unsheltered, Diane Chamberlain’s The Dream Daughter, and Lisa Gabriele’s The Winters, a contemporary version of the Daphne du Maurier classic Rebecca. Also in this edition are two highly anticipated literary followups: Sarah Perry’s Melmoth and Leif Engers’ Virgil Wander. The final fiction entry is The Travelling Cat Chronicles, an international bestseller from Japanese author Hiro Arikawa. Rounding out the selection is historian Stephen L. Carter’s nonfiction work Invisible: The Forgotten Story Of The Black […]