Warren Bass, senior editor for the Wall Street Journal’s weekend review section, will join Penguin Press as executive editor on November 13. President Ann Godoff says, “His breadth of experience and intellectual depth make him a perfect match for our editorial direction.” Margo Lipschultz will join Putnam as executive editor on October 23. Most recently she was senior editor for Harlequin. At Touchstone, Matthew Benjamin has been promoted to executive editor and Lara Blackman has been promoted to assistant editor. Chris Russell has left Viking to join Axios as expert voices editor. At Albert Whitman, Sue Tarsky has been promoted to publishing […]
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Ward, Machado, Gessen, Grann, and More Top National Book Award Shortlists
The National Book Awards announced their nominees on Wednesday morning, with the winners to be named on November 14. The fiction list gives 2011 winner Jesmyn Ward a chance for a second win, and includes two debuts, from Lisa Ko and Carmen Maria Machado. The full lists of finalists: Fiction Elliot Ackerman, Dark at the Crossing (Knopf) Lisa Ko, The Leavers (Algonquin) Min Jin Lee, Pachinko (Grand Central) Carmen Maria Machado, Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Graywolf) Jesmyn Ward, Sing, Unburied, Sing (Scribner) Nonfiction Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Never Caught: The Washingtons’ Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge (37 […]
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At Orbit, Brit Hvide has been promoted to senior editor and Nivia Evans has been promoted to associate editor. At Simon & Schuster, Julianna Haubner has been promoted to associate editor. Michelle Campbell joins Little, Brown Children’s as senior manager of school and library marketing. She was most recently manager of library and educational marketing for Scholastic. Deborah Druba has joined Anna Jarota Literary Agency as an agent. She was most recently editor of foreign literature at Editions Kero and before that editorial director at Fleuve Editions. Rebecca Weston, formerly associate editor at Random House Children’s, is launching an independent editorial services business, […]
Our November/December Buzz Books Monthly
We wrap up our first year of promotable, consumer-friendly Buzz Books Monthlies with a combined year-end November/December sampler, available now for download on Amazon, iBooks, and NetGalley. In this collection you’ll find excerpts of six titles due for publication in the last two months of the year, and also featured in our extensive Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter collection. We finish out 2017 with a line-up of mostly fiction, beginning with National Book Award-winner Louise Erdrich’s newest novel, the dystopian Future Home of the Living God. The sampler also includes bestselling author Donna Everhart’s The Road to Bittersweet, set in 1940s South Carolina. The rest of the fiction includes: The […]
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Molly O’Neill has joined Root Literary as agent, still based in New York. She was most recently an agent at Waxman Leavell Agency. Margo Beth Fleming has joined Brockman, Inc. as a literary agent. She was senior editor at Stanford University Press, where she worked for the last 11 years. Sari Kamin has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior publicity manager (she was a freelance food journalist), and Breanne Sommer has joined as publicity manager (she was at Handcrafted PR, Artisan and Regan Arts). Both will handle handle culinary and lifestyle books. At NetGalley, Lindsey Lochner has been promoted to […]
Baker & Taylor Expands and Rebrands Distribution Unit
Baker & Taylor is expanding on the distribution capacity of their sister company Bookmasters, relaunching Bookmasters’ suite of distribution services under the new banner of Baker & Taylor Publisher Services. Clearly aimed at competing with Ingram’s expanded distribution program and others, they have hired Mark Suchomel as svp of sales & client services and he will jointly lead the distribution business along with former Bookmasters general manager Ken Fultz, who has been promoted to svp of operations for BTPS. Suchomel had been president of client services for the Perseus Book Group’s distribution business until its acquisition by Ingram. Suchomel had created Legato for Perseus, […]