Roz Parr will step down from her position as marketing director, Vintage Anchor and Everyman’s Library on June 1 after 18 years in that role, with plans to leave the industry to pursue personal and family priorities.Vintage Anchor publisher Anne Messitte writes, “Roz has had an incredible thirty-eight-year tenure in our industry, bringing invaluable real-world bookselling experience to Vintage, and we will be very sad to see her leave the publishing group…. Her work at Vintage has been essential and exceptional. Whether helping editors nuance their pitches for books, positioning a new season of titles with the reps, or cultivating […]
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Liz Stein has moved over to the William Morrow group as senior editor. Previously she was with Park Row Books. Rachel Crawford joins Naval Institute Press as production editor. She was most recently production editor/coordinator for Springer Nature. Awards The SFWA announced the Nebula Award winners over the weekend, with NK Jemisin‘s The Stone Sky awarded Best Novel and Sam J. Miller‘s The Art of Starving winning in the YA category.
Buzz Books Fall/Winter Preview: Literary & Debut
Our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler alone is full of excerpts from great forthcoming literary fiction by Barbara Kingsolver, Elizabeth McCracken, Sarah Perry and more, plus sixteen promising debuts including titles from Kathy Wang, Wil Medearis, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. As usual, our free ebook starts with a broad view of the forthcoming publishing season that highlights hundreds of new books of note on the way. Did you download your copy yet? Trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, are available through your platform of choice from NetGalley or Edelweiss. For the consumer edition, the “download” button here links to all major […]
The Full Buzz Books Young Adult List
Yesterday we listed the complete roster of adult authors and excerpts in our new free ebook Buzz Books 2018: Fall/Winter sampler. Today we’re excited to highlight all of the young adult authors and excerpts in Buzz Books 2018 Young Adult: Fall/Winter. Since we first launched YA as its own Buzz Books collection at BEA five years ago, these editions have been particularly popular with consumers, and this edition is perfectly suited for sharing with passionate YA fans at BookCon. You can find both versions in all major ebookstores (the “download” button here links to them all). To download the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, […]
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At Harper Collins, Jennifer Civiletto is moving to the Harper Group as senior publishing manager, reporting to Amy Baker. She was publishing manager, working with former president and publisher Michael Morrison. Following the elimination of Ben Ball’s job at Penguin Random House Australia, senior editor in the same Literary division Meredith Rose resigned “as a consequence” of Ball’s firing. Corporate The CBS board approved a dividend that would dilute the voting control of National Amusements by an 11 to 3 vote on Thursday: “If consummated, the dividend would enable the Company to operate as an independent, non-controlled company and more fully evaluate […]
The Complete Fall/Winter Buzz Books Titles
As we previewed Wednesday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2018: Fall/Winter arrives packed with pre-publication excerpts from major authors and 16 exciting debut voices. Our sampler is the ultimate way to prepare for Book Expo, Book Con and the fall publishing season (capturing the best part of the convention even if you don’t attend — reading some of the hottest new books ahead of everyone else). For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, you can download through your platform of choice from NetGalley or Edelweiss. The consumer version is available on all the major ebookstore platforms (the “download” button here links to them […]