Heather Jackson is leaving Harmony to become a literary agent, joining the David Black Agency on May 2. She will focus on commercial nonfiction and fiction, popular culture, and fresh narrative voices that inform, entertain, and shift the cultural conversation. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Stephanie Fletcher has been promoted to editor, culinary/lifestyle. In addition, Tim Mudie moves up to associate editor, and Pilar Garcia-Brown has been promoted to editorial associate. Beth Collins was promoted production manager at Beacon Press, and Daniel Barks was promoted to reprint and digital production manager. Founder of Clarion Books and author of nonfiction for young readers Jim Giblin died […]
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Malcolm Bouzi has joined Open Road as junior front end developer. Previously he was a web developer at the Araca Group. Farideh Koohi-Kamali has joined Peter Lang Publishers as senior vice president. She succeeds Christopher Myers, who has left the company after over 25 years as managing director and education editor. Koohi-Kamali spent the past 14 years as editorial director of Palgrave Macmillan’s US academic program. New Ventures Hachette Book Group announced it has sold 51 percent of its Yen Press manga imprint to Japanese publisher Kadokawa, creating a joint venture, overseen by publisher and managing director Kurt Hassler. The […]
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Luiselli, Obioma, Graham, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Saturday night. They include: Fiction Valeria Luiselli, The Story of My Teeth (Coffee House) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Chigozie Obioma, The Fishermen (Little, Brown) Current Interest Sarah Chayes, Thieves of State (Norton) Poetry Jorie Graham, From the New World: Poems 1976-2014 (Ecco) Other winners include Dan Ephron (History); Andrea Wulf (Science & Technology); Don Winslow (Mystery/Thriller); Riad Sattouf (Young Adult); Hayden Herrera (Biography); and Riad Sattouf (Graphic Novel). As previously announced, Juan Felipe Herrera won the Robert Kirsch Award and James Patterson was awarded […]
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Jennifer Schuster will become executive editor, Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press, reporting to Tricia Boczkowski, as of April 18. She had been at NAL. Amelia Possanza will join Flatiron Books as senior publicist on April 11. Previously she was a publicist at Touchstone. In addition, Kimberly Escobar will join as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Grand Central. Lisa Baker will join Aitken Alexander Associates as director of translation rights in August, and will also represent her own list of clients. She was rights director for Faber and Faber. Longtime co-owner of the Once Upon a Crime Bookstore Gary Shulze, 66, […]
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Stacy Creamer will join Regan Arts as svp, executive editor on April 15. Most recently she was executive editor at Hachette Books and before then was publisher at Touchstone. Andy Hunter has been named publisher of LitHub.com, overseeing the growing site — which is a collaboration between Hunter’s Electric Literature and Grove/Atlantic. (Hunter also serves as publisher of Catapult.) Krishan Trotman has joined Hachette Books as senior editor. Previously she was a senior editor at Skyhorse. In addition, Hallie Patterson moves over to Hachette Books as publicity and marketing manager, from Little, Brown Children’s. At Chronicle Books, Molly Krauss has […]
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Random House will try to beat the celebrity imprint jinx in a new partnership with Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner for a Lenny imprint. Overseen by editor-in-chief Andy Ward and launching in late 2017, the line will feature the “emerging voices…that Lena and Jenni Konner are already attracting and publishing so successfully in their newsletter and on their popular site.” Ward says in the announcement, “Working with Lena, Jenni and the editors of Lenny, we plan to publish a select number of titles each year to build a varied, compelling, and voice-driven list.” Dunham adds, “Jenni and I are both voracious […]