At Random House, Michelle Jasmine has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, while Allyson Lord moves up to associate publicist. Tanusri Prasanna has joined Foundry Literary + Media, moving from Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, building her list in children’s books and selectively representing adult literary fiction and narrative non-fiction. Former Clarkson Potter executive editor Rica Allannic will join the David Black Agency in September as a literary agent. She will focus on cooking, narrative nonfiction, popular culture, history, memoir, and “helping authors from diverse backgrounds tell stories that are important to them.” Forthcoming Joe Hagan’s biography STICKY FINGERS: The Life and Times of […]
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The Full Buzz Books Young Adult Roster
Yesterday we listed the complete roster of 40 great adult authors and excerpts packed into our new free ebook Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter sampler, and today we’re proud to feature all of the young adult authors and excerpts in Buzz Books 2017 Young Adult: Fall/Winter. Since we first launched YA as its own Buzz Books collection at BEA four years ago, these editions have been particularly popular with consumers, and this edition is perfectly suited for sharing with passionate YA fans at BookCon. (Fan reviews of the YA edition are already pouring in online: “Whenever I see a new Buzz Books is available […]
People, Etc.
Ian Buruma has been named editor of The New York Review of Books, succeeding co-founder Robert B. Silvers who died recently. Buruma has been a regular contributor to The New York Review since 1985, in addition to other publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian, and La Repubblica. He is also the Paul W. Williams Professor of Democracy, Human Rights, and Journalism at Bard College. Publisher Rea Hederman said in the release, “Ian’s long relationship with both founding editors will preserve the editorial quality and independence for which the Review has been known since its first […]
The Complete Fall/Winter Buzz Books Titles
As we previewed on Tuesday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter features an amazing roster of authors you love as well as excerpts from 16 exciting debut voices. Get a jump on Book Expo by sampling some of the best forthcoming books right now. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, get an EPUB file from us or go to NetGalley. The consumer version is available on all the major ebookstore platforms (the “download” button here links to them all). And don’t forget to share. Our samplers are highly anticipated […]
People, Etc.: Hely Hutchinson to Retire, and More
Tim Hely Hutchinson will retire as ceo of Hachette UK at the end of the year, with Little Brown Book Group and Orion ceo David Shelley to succeed him, reporting to Arnaud Nourry, starting January 1, 2018. He will also become a member of the international board of Hachette Livre and a director of Hachette Book Group USA. Nourry said Shelley is “an outstanding publisher and he will be an inspiring and inspired ceo.” Additionally, Jamie Hodder-Williams, currently ceo of Hodder & Stoughton, John Murray Press, and Headline and Quercus, will add the new role of director of trade publishing of Hachette UK […]
Buzz Books and Book Expo Schedule
We had a great launch of our two new Buzz Books samplers yesterday, the ultimate preparation for Book Expo and the fall publishing season, with the latest editions cracking the top 100 at both iBooks (where they are being featured) and Amazon. Or get the “trade editions,” directly from PM as EPUB files and from NetGalley, where both the adult and YA books always top their most-downloaded lists and generate hundreds of positive reviews of your forthcoming titles. And keep the #buzzbooks2017 tweets going to bring attention to many of your big fall titles and authors. Today we have the second piece […]