Uprooted by Naomi Novik is the No. 1 pick for the May Library Reads list. The list also includes The Water Knife by Paolo Baciagalupi as well as Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, excerpts of which you can start reading right now in our Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer ebook. The rest of the list includes: A Court of Thorns and Roses, by Sarah J. Maas (Bloomsbury) A God in Ruins, by Kate Atkinson (Little, Brown) The Knockoff, by Lucy Sykes & Jo Piazza (Doubleday) Early Warning, by Jane Smiley (Knopf) The Ghost Fields, by Elly Griffiths (HMH) Our Souls at Night, […]
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People, Etc.: Restivo-Alessi Adds International Duties at HC; Ivan Doig Dies; and More
At HarperCollins, chief digital officer Chantal Restivo-Alessi is taking on the additional responsibilities of evp, International, overseeing the growing foreign language program built on top of some of infrastructure acquired as part of Harlequin. CEO Brian Murray writes: “In this new role, Chantal will oversee the HarperCollins foreign language program to ensure we’re hitting all the targets necessary for growth and develop new processes and procedures so we can achieve the ambitious plans laid out for our foreign language publishing program while setting up structures that support our authors in new ways.” She will work in partnership with Harlequin chief operating officer International Steve Miles, who […]
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Mary Faria will join Perseus on April 20 in the newly created role of vp, mass merch sales, reporting to Sabrina McCarthy. Previously she was director of sales at becker!&mayer. Rick Monteith, Peter D’Erasmo, Christina Douglas, and Cherish Barrett will now report to Faria. At Random House Children’s Publishing, Stephanie O’Cain has been promoted to senior marketing manager; Sarah Wharton moves up to assistant marketing manager, and Alissa Nigro has been promoted to marketing coordinator. In addition, Hannah Black joins as assistant marketing manager from Diversion Books, where she was marketing coordinator. Sarah Bush has been promoted to audio rights […]
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Gigi Campo has been promoted to associate editor at Avery. Liz Stein has joined Mira Books as editor. Previously she was an associate editor at Putnam. Dina Davis is now at Harlequin as assistant editor/editorial assistant working on Harlequin Historical and Love Inspired Suspense. Mark Gottlieb has been promoted to full-time agent at Trident Media Group. At the “newly aligned” Blue Rider Press/Plume group, Christina Hu has been hired as associate marketing director (she had been senior marketing manager at Atavist Books), and Wesley Salazar has been promoted to marketing associate. Liz Ridout has joined Booktrack as chief marketing officer. Previously she was vp, marketing at Kobo. In addition, […]
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Gabrielle Gantz joins Palgrave as associate director of publicity. She was previously director of publicity at McSweeney’s. Mia Amato has joined Start Publishing as marketing director, overseeing all print and digital marketing of the recently acquired Cleis Press and Viva Editions imprints. Her background in digital channel marketing includes stints at Harlequin, Quirk Books, McGraw-Hill and Kensington. Firebrand Technologies has hired Satvinder Virdi as senior UK relationship manager, based in London, with responsibility for sales, projects and support of UK and European-based publishing clients. He was on the project management and technology operations team at Random House. Also in Europe, the company’s NetGalley has launched […]
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Jeanne-Marie Hudson joins Berkley/NAL this week as vp, director of marketing. She was previously senior director, marketing communications & audience development at St. Martin’s Press. At Putnam, Anna Romig has been promoted to assistant marketing manager. Bethany Bryan has joined Papercutz as associate editor. Previously she was social media manager for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. At Scott Manning & Associates, Abigail Welhouse has been promoted to publicist. Awards Nominations for the Hugo Awards were announced over the weekend, with the winners to be named at Worldcon later this year. This year’s roster comes with no small amount of controversy, […]