BEA has announced the fall books to be featured on the convention’s three Buzz Books panels in May. The adult panel is evenly divided between fiction and nonfiction. There’s one debut novel (from Stegner Fellow and Paris Review Plimpton Prize winner Ottessa Moshfegh); one adult debut (YA author Ruth Warburton, writing as Ruth Ware — for the debut title from Gallery’s Scout Press); and one novel that’s been buzzed since it was sold in fall 2013, from Garth Risk Hallberg, already promoted as a Winter Institute buzz book and now back for more: Adult City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg (Knopf) […]
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Tara Gavin has joined Kensington as executive editor. She spent the past 30 years at Harlequin, most recently as senior executive editor. Ron Longe recently started his own boutique PR firm, Ron Longe Public Relations, specializing in food, lifestyle, and illustrated books. He can now be reached at ron@ronlonge.com. He was with Media Masters Publicity for six years. At P.S. Literary Agency, Amanda Schiffmann has been promoted to the newly created role of digital and social Media coordinator. Market Partners International celebrated their 25th anniversary at an event Monday night — and toasted one of the founding partners, Connie Sayre, who […]
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Anja Schmidt has joined Oxmoor House as editorial director, reporting to Time Home Entertainment publisher Margot Schupf. Most recently she was US publisher at Kyle Books. Zack Wagman will join Ecco as executive editor on March 9. Previously he was senior editor at Crown & Hogarth. Matt Mullin will leave Nook, where he has been senior manager, digital content, at the end of this week and joins start-up book discovery site The Reading Room on March 16 as sales director. Reporting to Mullin at The Reading Room will be newly-hired sales and publishing coordinator Nicole Cunningham, formerly of ICM. At Holt, Caroline Zancan has been […]
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Julia Pastore will join Harper One as executive editor on March 2. She has been executive editor at Demos Health, prior to which she was senior editor at Crown Archetype. Michele Cobb has joined the Audio Publishers Association as executive director. She currently owns MLC Consulting, which provides PR, sales, marketing and business development services for the publishing industry, and was previously vp, sales & marketing for AudioGo. At Random House Children’s Books, Maggie Gibson has been promoted to production associate. Deputy editor of the Boston Globe’s Idea section Amanda Katz announced on Twitter earlier this week she is “moving to a […]
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That special discount code for new PublishersMarketplace.com subscribers we introduced on Groundhog Day officially expires at the end of the February — so if you are interested, this is your last chance. As a reminder, here’s how it works: When you use the code 2015, you’ll get your first month’s worth of all of the resources at PublishersMarketplace.com for just $15, a “rollback” to our original price. On the second of our two registration pages, when you are asked to “choose a payment plan,” just enter that code 2015 in the “Promo code:” box. Having a full month at a discount is […]
Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian Tops April Indie Next List
The preview version of the April Indie Next List has Orhan’s Inheritance by Aline Ohanesian as indie booksellers’ No. 1 selection for the month. The list also includes World Gone By by Dennis Lehane; A Desperate Fortune by Susanna Kearsley; The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen, and The Children’s Crusade by Ann Packer, excerpts of which you can read right now in Buzz Books 2015: Spring/Summer, if you have not downloaded your copy yet. The rest of the list features: The Witch of Painted Sorrows, by M.J. Rose At The Water’s Edge, by Sara Gruen What Comes Next and How […]