Andrew Duncan will join Grand Central on March 25 as associate director, online marketing, reporting to Emi Battaglia. Duncan was most recently senior marketing manager at Viking. Megan Perritt joins Crown as senior publicist. She was previously a publicist at F&W Media. In addition, Rebecca Marsh has been named publicist, moving from Simon & Schuster. In the wake of Mark Suchomel’s abrupt departure earlier this month after more than 15 years as company president, IPG has made a number of changes to its senior management. Jeff Tegge has been promoted to executive vice president, where he will continue to coordinate […]
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Craig Herman has joined Peanuts Worldwide as executive director for publishing, where he will work on expanding the global publishing program for the Peanuts brand as well as transition the business to the optimal blend of physical books, e-books, and hybrid digibooks and apps. Previously he was vp, associate publisher at Running Press. Little, Brown announced that the trade paperback edition of JK Rowling‘s THE CASUAL VACANCY will be published with a new cover on July 18, 2013. In separate Dan Brown news, Doubleday announced he will make his only US appearance for INFERNO at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall […]
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Confirmed via Twitter though not officially announced yet by the ABA, Anthony Marra‘s debut novel A CONSTELLATION OF VITAL PHENOMENA from Hogarth will be the No. 1 Indie Next pick for May. Marra was among the authors appearing at Winter Institute 8 and you can read a 20-page excerpt from the beginning of his book right now in the current edition of our packed free ebook BUZZ BOOKS 2013: Spring/Summer. It also includes a sample from No. 1 Indie Next April book Kate Atkinson’s LIFE AFTER LIFE, another April pick (Aleksandr Hemon’s The Book of My Lives), and more highly-touted […]
Awards: Story Prize, Man Asian, American Academy Honors, and the UK’s New Folio Prize
National Book Foundation “5 under 35” honoree Claire Vaye Watkins has claimed two new honors in the same week. She prevailed over Dan Chaon and Junot Diaz to win the Story Prize for her book BATTLEBORN, and she is also is receiving the American Academy of Arts and Letters award given to “a young writer of considerable literary talent for a work published in 2012.” The Academy named 19 recipients in all of a total of $175,000 in literature prizes this year. A new E.B. White Award for achievement in children’s literature has been given to author of TUCK EVERLASTING, […]
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Sony Pictures longtime New York-based director of development Mark James is leaving the company to start his own book-to-film scouting company, James Literary Consulting, a book-to-film scouting company. Deadline.com says his two initial clients will be Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures and the Michaels-Goldwyn production company (a partnership between Lorne Michaels and John Goldwyn). Patti Pirooz has been promoted to publisher, Penguin Audio. Consortium will handle distribution for And Other Stories, Curbside Splendor Publishing, Gallic Books, GILES, and Stockholm Text effective June 1, as well as Koyama Press and Stockholm Text’s digital titles as of April 1.
The Digital Combo Pass Returns
Some of our readers have either this month’s Bologna Book Fair or next month’s London Book Fair up next on their agendas, but with hints of spring in the air, Book Expo America (BEA)–beginning May 29–isn’t all that far away. We’ll hold our Publishers Launch BEA Conference on the day before the exhibit floor opens for the third year, and working with the BEA organizers and the IDPF (which holds their own digital conference at BEA), we are bringing back last year’s hugely successful Digital Combo Pass. The combo pass means that instead of choosing between the Publishers Launch and […]