Candlewick announced a number of recent promotions. Liz Bicknell has been promoted to evp, executive editorial director and associate publisher, while also taking on responsibility as group trade publishing director, Walker Books Australia. Mary Lee Donovan has added the title of director of editorial operations to her current title of editorial director, while Sarah Ketchersid moves up to senior executive editor. Finally, both Kate Fletcher and Andrea Tompa have been promoted to senior editor. At Europa Editions, co-publisher Kent Carroll is transitioning to the role of publisher-at-large, where he will continue to focus on editing and bringing new authors in […]
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Launching with Kids, Then the World
Just as children’s and YA sales led the industry last year, next week’s big conferences start with our one-day Publishers Launch Kids conference, the opening event of Digital Book World, on January 13. For the fourth year in a row, Launch Kids is the biggest professional event specifically for children’s book publishers (and children’s content digitalists). Once again the program is overstuffed with more than 30 speakers from across the children’s content world — from top publishers (Susan Katz at Harper Children’s; Barbara Marcus at Random House Children’s; Suzanne Murphy at Disney; Dominique Raccah at Sourcebooks), major educational platforms (Chris Palma […]
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Brant Rumble will join Blue Rider Press as senior editor on February 2. Previously he was senior editor at Scribner. Ingram Content Group chief operating officer Shawn Morin has been given the additional title and responsibilities of president. CEO John Ingram syas in the announcement: “Shawn Morin has provided great leadership for our team at Ingram, especially over the past two years. As much as we’re a distribution business, we’re also a technology business. Shawn is a businessman who is very knowledgeable and fluent in technology, which enables everything we do.” Lucas Hunt has joined Orchard Literary, a literary agency spinoff of PR […]
The Biggest Show of the Year
Convening next week from January 13 through January 15 at the New York Hilton, Digital Book World is certainly the biggest show of this new year and given our best-ever lineup of speakers, it could stand for a while as the year’s premier conference. Right before the holiday break we noted the addition of Keith Moerer, who manages the iBooks Store business for Apple worldwide, as the final keynoter on Wednesday. Alongside Kindle executive Russ Grandinetti that gives DBW conversations with top executives from the two largest ebookstores. Those main stage keynotes also feature top publishing executives (Harper ceo Brian Murray; HMH […]
Briefs: Shandler to Run New Morrow Line, Zuckerberg’s Year In Books, and More
Former Little, Brown editorial director Geoff Shandler joins William Morrow tomorrow as vp, editorial director for the nonfiction portion of “a new line of eminent nonfiction and literary fiction” that the division is launching. Liate Stehlik says in a memo the new line “will seek to investigate, inform, entertain, and inspire conversation, highlighting both established bestselling authors as well as introducing talented new voices.” Facebook ceo Mark Zuckerberg made a very public resolution to read a new book every two weeks throughout 2015, “with an emphasis on learning about different cultures, beliefs, histories and technologies.” Under the banner of A Year […]
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Nan Vermylen Thornton will join Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an agent. Previously, she was in-house counsel practicing copyright law at Pearson Education. The January Pennie’s Pick at Costco is BOSTON GIRL by Anita Diamant. More Best of 2014 lists keep coming in as the year draws to a close. Vanity Fair offers “11 Best Books of 2014 You Can Spend 2015 Reading” while the SF Chronicle‘s Top 10 list leads off with current “Best of the Best” fiction frontrunner ALL THE LIGHT YOU CANNOT SEE by Anthony Doerr. On that theme, the NYT recently featured Anthony Doerr’s long journey to […]