With Book Expo just a week away, we have updated our comprehensive, all-in-one-spreadsheet master schedule with still more author signings and event details. Use publun.ch/BEAschedPM to view it and simplify your convention planning. A variety of “special events” are marked in bold to help you find some of the more notable sessions. While author Walter Isaacson‘s Friday morning conversation about his forthcoming book THE INNOVATORS with Jacob Weisberg has been on the schedule for some time, earlier this week BEA officials declared him a “keynote speaker.” Breakfast speaker Neil Patrick Harris is covered this morning at E Online for the […]
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The Class of 14
The best way to actually “buzz” about books at BEA is by sampling the work itself, and that’s the original reason we created our successful, now year-round Publishers Lunch Buzz Books program two years ago. While we can’t tell you for certain which of the latest group of titles are this year’s The Yellow Birds, The Light Between Oceans, The Orchardist, The Rosie Project, Burial Rites, or The Woman Who Lost Her Soul our track record is clear: Many of the titles excerpted exclusively in Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter are going to populate lists of the best books of the […]
People, Etc.
Jennifer Gonzalez will take on the responsibilities of the open role of vp, adult merchandise sales at Macmillan formerly held by Steve Kleckner. At the same time, Gonzalez will retain her current role as vp, children’s sales — taking the new title of vp, merchandise and children’s sales. President of the sales division Alison Lazarus says, “Jenn has done a phenomenal job with our children’s books for MCPG, Tor and our distribution clients and has already been overseeing sales of those titles into the merchandise channel. Adding our adult books to her role is a natural fit and allows us to have one point of sales management […]
People, Etc.
Sandy McCormick Hill has left her position as ebook rights, contract manager, at Harper Collins. She can be reached at smchill@gmail.com. Simone Garzella Literary Scouting has been appointed US literary scout for the Lira Publishing Group in Hungary. Correcting from Friday, Liesa Abrams‘ new title is associate editorial director of Aladdin and Pulse. Linda Leavell‘s HOLDING UP UPSIDE DOWN: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore won the Biographers International Organization’s Plutarch Award for the best biography. The closing in April 2015 of the California Princeton Fulfillment Services in Ewing, NJ that we reported on Friday — part of the […]
Weekend Reading: Over 50 BEA Discoveries to Start Now
It’s been rewarding to see readers responding enthusiastically to our new free ebook samplers, now presenting substantial excerpts from over 30 general trade books in Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter, plus for the first time a separate collection of over 20 excerpts in Buzz Books 2014: Young Adult. Twenty seven of the authors featured in the two collections will be appearing at BEA and BookCon later this month, and of course for people not attending the shows our Buzz Books are a great way of sampling many of the big discoveries from home. To download the trade editions for your weekend reading, go to this page for […]
People: Aragi Honored, and More
The Center for Fiction will present their 2014 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction to literary agent Nicole Aragi at their December 9 benefit and awards dinner. Elizabeth Scarboro‘s My Foreign Cities has won the third annual Chautauqua Prize. Liesa Abrams has been promoted to associate editorial director, Aladdin and Simon Pulse. At Putnam, Liz Stein has been promoted to associate editor. Jayme Boucher has been promoted to agent director at the Penguin Speakers Bureau, reporting to Tiffany Tomlin. Both managers Elaine Trevorrow and Erin Simpson will report to Boucher. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin […]