Longtime director of Ingram Spark Robin Asbury Cutler will retire at the end of 2020. She joined Ingram in 2011 and led the launch of Spark in 2013. She says in the announcement, “I’ve been planning to step down for some time but decided to stay on through 2020 when the pandemic hit. We weren’t…
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Alicia Kroell has been promoted to assistant editor at Catapult. At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has been promoted to director of data. Adam Lara becomes web developer and administrator. Emily Forney and Umaima Saleem have joined BookEnds Literary Agency. Forney was most recently a publishing and editorial fellow for the LA Review of Books; Saleem was…
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Jackie Williams has joined The Knight Agency as associate agent, seeking fantasy, science fiction, mystery, suspense, contemporary, and young adult. She was previously with Chronicle Books. Ewan Turner has been promoted to managing editor of Philip Turner Book Productions. A fiction writer (and son of the founder), he heads up a new division, New Stories,…
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Forthcoming Former FBI agent Peter Strzok‘s COMPROMISED: Counterintelligence and the Threat of Donald J. Trump will be published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on September 8. He will “explain how the elevation by President Trump and his collaborators of Trump’s own personal interests over the interests of the country allowed Putin to succeed beyond Stalin’s wildest…
New Books Publishing July 28
As in previous weeks, our sample Bookshop and Aerbook store carousels provide easy displays of books publishing today in need of attention and support, featuring: 23 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-july-28 12 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-july-28 More new children’s and YA titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-children-s-titles-publishing-in-july We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can…
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At the Workman Publishing imprint, Danny Cooper and Rachael Mt. Pleasant have each been promoted to senior editor and Sarah Curley to assistant editor. Gracie Elliott becomes assistant editor within the children’s department and Kelly Lynch creative director, calendars. SarahMay Harel has been promoted to manager, website operations and ecommerce across all Workman Publishing imprints. Alex Kelleher-Nagorski has…