Dan Ambrosio has joined Da Capo Books as a senior editor. He was at Wiley for the last four years, and has worked at Vigliano Associates and Warner Books. Deborah Ritchken has joined the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency, working primarily in the areas of food, design and entertaining; pop culture; women’s issues; biography; and current events. She was with The Castiglia Agency. Random House is inviting the public to buy tickets (at $25 each, including breakfast and lunch) to an “open house” at their headquarters building in New York on November 2. The full-day event promises “access to upcoming titles before they’re […]
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New Sylvia Day eBook Sells 286k Copies In First Week
Sylvia Day’s REFLECTED IN YOU, the follow-up to her bestselling BARED TO YOU, sold 286,000 ebooks in the US in the first week on sale, Berkley reported. It sells for $9.99. The publisher says the trade paperback, which does not go on sale until October 23, will have a 630,000-copy printing.
People: Mo Yan Wins Nobel
The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded Thursday morning to Chinese writer Mo Yan, with the citation praising him for his “hallucinatory realism” that “merges folk tales, history and the contemporary.” Mo, a pseudonym for Guan Moye, is one of China’s best-selling (and most pirated) authors in the country, and his work, according to the Swedish Academy, “created a world reminiscent in its complexity of those in the writings of William Faulkner and Gabriel García Márquez, at the same time finding a departure point in old Chinese literature and in oral tradition.” Mo was said to be “overjoyed and terrified” […]
Harper Formalizes Wave Imprint Under Rinaldi
HarperCollins, which hired Karen Rinaldi in March to start a new health and wellness line, has now named that imprint Harper Wave. Called a general health, wellness and lifestyle line, the company says they have been targeting “the best thinking from top personalities, experts, doctors and journalists.” Executive editor Julie Will is also working on the list. The imprint will launch in the marketplace in April 2013 with television personality and dating expert Matthew Hussey’s GET THE GUY, and the fall list will include their Cameron Diaz book. Harper adds that “Rinaldi and team are working closely with authors to develop their […]
NBA Nominates Well-Known Authors and Books
The National Book Award reversed their recent trend and nominated a solid and mainstream set of books in the fiction and nonfiction categories. Among publishers, Random House garnered the most nominations in those two areas (though all in nonfiction), with a poignant posthumous nomination for Anthony Shadid. Winners will be named November 14. Fiction Junot Diaz, This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead) Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King (McSweeney’s) Louise Erdrich, The Round House (Harper) Ben Fountain, Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco) Kevin Powers, The Yellow Birds (Little, Brown) Nonfiction Anne Applebaum, Iron Curtain (Doubleday) Katherine Boo, […]
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At OverDrive, Don Fabricant has been named general manager, education and chief sales. He previously held executive posts at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Eduventures and Thomson Learning. Suzanna Bainbridge has joined Sourcebooks as editorial manager for Sourcebooks EDU. Previously she was a development editor at Cengage Learning. In addition, Sarah Henry has been hired as a marketing associate, working on Sourcebooks new digital initiatives. She was most recently an editorial assistant at McGraw-Hill. Former Books-a-Million executive Douglas Markham followed his allegations against his former employer with a lawsuit, alleging wrongful termination due to his military service. The suit, filed October 5, […]