Random House Children’s Books has doubled the announced first printing for Dr. Seuss‘s forthcoming posthumous title WHAT PET SHOULD I GET? to 1 million copies to “keep up with demand.” The publisher also released an illustration from the book, scheduled for release on July 28. Distribution Columbia University Press Sales Consortium will provide sales representation for the University of California Press in the US as of July 1, 2015. Ampersand Inc. will represent UC Press in Canada.
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LAT Book Prize Winners Include Hustvedt, Luiselli, Rankine, & Hobbs
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Saturday night. They include: Fiction Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (Simon & Schuster) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House Press) Current Interest Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (Scribner) Poetry Claudia Rankine, Citizen (Graywolf) Other winners include Adam Tooze (History); Elizabeth Kolbert (Science & Technology); Tom Bouman (Mystery/Thriller); Candice Fleming (Young Adult); Andrew Roberts (Biography); and Jaime Hernandez (Graphic Novel). As previously announced, T.C. Boyle won the Robert Kirsch Award and Levar Burton was […]
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Scot Kuehm has joined Princeton University Press as associate director and chief financial officer. Previously he was cfo & coo at Oxford University Press. In addition, Colleen Boyle has been promoted to publicist. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s: Cara Llewellyn has been promoted to associate art director; Opal Roengchai has been promoted to designer; Anne Hoppe has moved up to vp, associate publisher, senior executive editor at Clarion; and Bethany Vinhateiro and Alex Preziosi have both been promoted to editor, franchise publishing. Elsewhere at HMH, Jackie Shepherd has been promoted to associate designer. A memorial service for the late Loretta Barrett will be held May 7 at St. Peter’s Cathedral on Lexington Avenue […]
Awards: Indies Choice Winners, PEN Shortlists, and More
The winners of the Indies Choice Book Awards were announced Thursday afternoon: Adult Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) Adult Nonfiction: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan) Adult Debut: The Martian by Andy Weir (Crown) Young Adult: The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers) Winners of the E.B. White Read-Aloud Awards are: Middle Reader: Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson (Nancy Paulsen Books) Picture Book: Sam and Dave Dig a Hole by Mac Barnett, illustrated by Jon Klassen (Candlewick) Additionally, Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer will jointly […]
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At Running Press, Jordana Tusman has been promoted to senior editor. After the London Book Fair wraps up today, there will be a memorial service in London tomorrow for former Random House UK deputy chairman Simon Master, who died in January. The service is at 11 at St Luke’s Church, Sydney Street, with a 12.15 reception in the Culford Room, Cadogan Hall, 5 Sloane Terrace. Announcements Vintage Books’ Vintage Shorts imprint will release 31 short story ebooks, including originals by Alexander McCall Smith, Hari Kunzru, Maeve Binchy, Patricio Pron, and Carrie Brown, during the month of May (one each day) to celebrate Short Story Month. […]
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Wiley ceo Stephen Smith will retire on June 1 as a result of previously disclosed medical reasons (Smith was diagnosed with urological cancer.) Mark Allin, currently coo, will succeed Smith as ceo, earning a base annual salary of $750,000. Chairman Peter Wiley said in the announcement: “[Allin] has been instrumental in restructuring and reorganizing the business,” as well as “reallocating resources to high-growth areas.” Elias Altman has joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as a literary agent, where he will focus on literary fiction, memoirs, and a broad range of narrative and expository nonfiction including works of history, science, travel, and cultural […]