At Scribner, Lauren Lavelle has been promoted to publicity manager, and Gwyneth Stansfield moves up to publicist. Riverhead art director Helen Yentus won the ADC Art + Craft Design Prize for her much talked about 3D-printed book design for Chang-rae Lee’s On Such a Full Sea. Booktrack, which synchronizes soundtracks to ebooks, announced the completion of $3 million in Series A financing led by Sparkbox Ventures. The company is expanding into education with Booktrack Classroom, which gives students free access to soundtracked ebooks. Simon & Schuster has officially adjusted the release date for Hillary Clinton‘s still-untitled new memoir to June […]
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At Bloomsbury, Kathy Belden has been promoted to senior executive editor. Sara Sciuto is joining Foreword Literary as an agent, specializing in children’s books. She was previously an agent with Full Circle Literary. Ian McEwan‘s novel THE CHILDREN ACT, already announced for UK publication this fall by Jonathan Cape, will also be issued by Nan A. Talese on September 9 (listed at 192 pages). Gabriel García Márquez has been released from the hospital and is recovering at home following treatment for a lung and urinary tract infection. Philip Roth will receive Yaddo’s inaugural artist medal at a ceremony in May. […]
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Longtime St. Martin’s executive Matthew Baldacci will move to Scholastic as vp of marketing for the trade publishing division on April 28. Baldacci will oversee marketing and brand strategy for all trade imprints, reporting to Ellie Berger. He is currently vp, associate publisher, marketing and sales operations at SMP, where he has worked since 1998. Lauren Donovan will join Penguin Children’s as publicity manager on April 14. Most recently she was a senior publicist at Random House Children’s. Leonello Brandolini joins Hachette Livre as an international consultant and editor-at-large, reporting to Arnaud Nourry. He was most recently chairman and ceo of […]
People: Peter Matthiessen, 86, Dies, and More
Peter Matthiessen, 86, died on April 5 from complications of leukemia, with which he was diagnosed 15 months ago. He was the author of more than thirty books, including THE SNOW LEOPARD (1978), which won the National Book Award for nonfiction, and SHADOW COUNTRY (2008), a National Book Award winner in fiction. His final novel IN PARADISE will be published on Tuesday, and was the subject of a NYT Magazine profile in this weekend’s issue. “We are deeply honored to be custodians of Peter’s final, characteristically bold work of art,” said Riverhead publisher Geoffrey Kloske in a statement. His editor […]
Doerr Tops May Indie Next List
Anthony Doerr’s ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE (Scribner) is the #1 Indie Next List for May. The list also includes a number of our PL Spring/Summer Buzz Books, including Laline Paull’s debut novel THE BEES, Stacey D’Erasmo’s WONDERLAND, Greg Iles’ NATCHEZ BURNING, Evie Wyld’s ALL THE BIRDS, SINGING, and Joseph Boyden’s THE ORENDA, all of which you can preview right now in our free ebook. The rest of the Indie Next list includes: The Steady Running of the Hour: A Novel, by Justin Go The Serpent of Venice, by Christopher Moore Ruby, by Cynthia Bond Troika, by Adam Pelzman […]
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Mara Anastas has been promoted to vp, publisher of Aladdin and Simon Pulse, effective April 7. Previously deputy publisher, she succeeds Bethany Buck, who is leaving the company after more than six years as publisher. President of Simon & Schuster Children’s Jon Anderson said in a statement: “The drive and devotion Mara has shown in all her previous roles make her more than ready and entirely suited to take on this new responsibility. We look forward to Mara and the Aladdin Books and Simon Pulse teams building on their current successes.” He added: “Under Bethany, who has led Aladdin Books […]