The title and cover of Jeff Kinney’s fall release DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: Old School was revealed at Symphony Space in New York Monday morning during a live webcast. The book goes on sale November 3 and follows Greg Heffley “as he goes on a weeklong field trip to a farm and deals with a generation gap between the kids and their chaperones.” Abrams is touting a global release strategy with this tenth title in the bestselling Wimpy Kid series. The new book will launch simultaneously in the US, UK, Canada, Germany, Australia, Turkey, Greece, Japan, Brazil, Spain, Romania, Portugal, Hungary, Sweden, Taiwan, Latvia, and Norway […]
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In the UK, Parragon has promoted Wendy Friedman to president, creative, responsible for setting the top level creative direction for all of Parragon’s product output across its Books and Kit & Gift divisions. Darren Witherall moves up to president, EMEA, responsible for all of Parragon’s businesses in the UK, Australia and New Zealand, India and Germany. Finally, Kim Brown has joined as president, North America. Previously she was svp, merchandise at Baker & Taylor. All promotions are effective May 1. Target‘s Book Club pick for May is The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams. Forthcoming J.K. Rowling‘s next […]
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At Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, Tanusri Prasanna has joined as an associate, specializing in children’s books. She will work with Carrie Hannigan on children’s and YA projects and with Josh Getzler on special projects and contracts. (With a PhD in jurisprudence from Oxford, she has worked in the office of the general counsel, and interned at Foundry Literary + Media and Knopf Children’s.) Danielle Burby has been promoted to junior agent and foreign rights manager. She represents YA, women-driven crime fiction, and women’s fiction. At Clarkson Potter, Amanda Englander was promoted to editor. Caroline Osborn has joined Little, Brown Children’s […]
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Ken Michaels has been named ceo of Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures, taking up the post after the merger of MacmillanScience and Education and Springer Science closes. Michaels wil report to John Sargent in the new position, which includes the US-based higher education publishing that Macmillan retains outright after the merger. (He is currently global chief operating office of MSE.) Ruta Rimas has been promoted to senior editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books. Siena Koncsol has joined Harlequin Teen as publicity manager. Previously she was a publicist at S&S Children’s. Domenica Alioto is being promoted to senior editor for Crown. Jennifer Johnson-Blalock […]
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Joe Monti has been promoted to editorial director at Saga Press. Michael Yeon has joined Open Road as svp, marketing, reporting to Rachel Chou. Previously he was vp, marketing at Grooveshark. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jessica Gilo has been promoted to culinary marketing manager.
Doerr, Kolbert Among Pulitzer Winners
After missing out on the National Book Award, Anthony Doerr was among those book authors winning Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, marking the second year in a row (after Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH) the Pulitzer went with a commercially successful title as the winner. Doerr told USA Today (from Paris, where he is currently on tour) he “can barely absorb any of it,” speculating that his novel resonates in our “time of overabundance” because “we are compelled by stories that remind us of our blessings, that remind us that not that long ago whole countries were struggling to feed their populations.” Doerr […]