A.S.A. Harrison, 65, died April 14 in Toronto. Her debut psychological suspense novel THE SILENT WIFE will be published by Penguin Books, who said in a statement: “We are deeply saddened over the loss of a great woman and a very gifted writer.” A memorial service for longtime Knopf vp, senior editor Ashbel Green, who died last September at the age of 84, will be held in New York at Cooper Union on Thursday, April 25th at 5:00 pm in the Great Hall. A funeral for bestselling author Brennan Manning, best known for The Ragamuffin Gospel, will be held Wednesday, April 17, […]
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Awards: Women’s Prize Shortlist; Guardian Hot Key Winners; Pulitzer Reprint Plans
The UK prize formerly known as the Orange, now called the Women’s Prize, posted a powerful shortlist, as Hilary Mantel looks to add a third award alongside her Booker and Costa. The winner will be named June 5: Kate Atkinson, Life After Life AM Homes, May We Be Forgiven Barbara Kingsolver, Flight Behavior Hilary Mantel, Bring Up the Bodies Maria Semple, Where’d You Go, Bernadette? Zadie Smith, NW You can find previous winners listed here. The first Guardian Hot Key Books Young Writers prize has awarded publishing contracts to two young YA writers in their twenties. Hot Key Books will […]
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At Bloomsbury, Rachel Mannheimer has been promoted to editor, and Melanie Sankel has gone from associate director of sales for Fairchild Books to director, adoption sales at Bloomsbury Academic. After Skyhorse and Start Publishing’s intended joint acquisition of Night Shade Books’ assets ignited public controversy over the original terms of sale (and now, after a revision, the sale “is in a holding pattern right now waiting for all the authors’ feedback”, a Skyhorse spokesperson told us) the two publishers have bought a different science fiction & fantasy publisher, Underland Press, for an undisclosed sum. The deal for the six-year-old press, according […]
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Tracy Sherrod will join Amistad as editorial director on April 22. Previously she was the founder and proprietor of Tracy Sherrod Literary Services, representing Karine Steffans, Katori Hall, Kalisha Buckannon, and others (and prior to that she was an editor at Simon & Schuster). Sonya Safro will join Grand Central as publicity manager. She was previously a senior publicist at the Random House Publishing Group. At the S&S imprint, Nick Greene has been promoted to associate editor and Jonathan Cox moves up to assistant editor.
Awards: Johnson Claims Pulitzer Prize in Fiction; Granta Best Young British Novelists 2013
A year after failing to declare a winner in the fiction category last year (bypassing 2007 Granta Best Young American novelist list member Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!, now up for an IMPAC; Denis Johson’s Train Dreams; and David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King), the Pulitzer Prize has gone back to normal, naming Adam Johnson as the winner in fiction for The Orphan Master’s Son (Random House). Finalists in fiction included The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (Reagan Arthur Books) and Nathan Englander’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Knopf). The winners in other book categories include: Nonfiction Devil in the Grove: […]
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At Workman Publishing, Vaughn Andrews will join the company as creative director for the Workman imprint on April 22. Most recently a freelance designer, he worked for 26 years at Harcourt, including serving as executive art director and creative director. Raquel Jaramillo, who has been acting creative director for two years, will return full time to her position as director of children’s publishing. At Touchstone, Jessica Roth has been promoted to publicity manager. At Yale University Press, Jaya Aninda Chatterjee has been promoted to assistant editor for politics and international relations. William Boyd‘s new authorized James Bond novel, publishing this […]