Karen Ma has joined the Indigo sales team at Penguin Random House Canada as sales manager. Previously, she was in sales at Harper Canada. Jessica Reid has been promoted to online & digital sales representative, focusing on Amazon sales. Hatty Stiles has been named associate rights director at Amazon Publishing. Awards The Publishing Triangle Awards, honoring LGBTQ fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and trans literature, named winners. Fiebre Tropical, by Juliana Delgado Lopera (Feminist Press) won the Ferro-Grumley Award for LGBTQ Fiction, while 99 Erics, by Julia Serano (Switch Hitter Press) won the Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction. A full list […]
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The Complete Buzz Books Fall/Winter Titles
As we previewed Tuesday, our new free ebook Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter arrives this week packed with 51 pre-publication excerpts from major authors and exciting debuts. Our sampler is the ultimate way to prepare for the upcoming publishing season. For the trade editions — with publicity and marketing info, and click-throughs for full galleys, you can download through Netgalley or Edelweiss. The consumers editions are available now on all major ebook platforms, including Kindle, Nook, Apple Books, Google Play, and Kobo. Authors to be featured on our upcoming Buzz Books Editors Panel on Wednesday, May 19 are noted with an asterisk. (Register for the panel now). Here […]
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Rivka Holler has been promoted to marketing coordinator for Wednesday Books/St. Martin’s. Senior agent Elizabeth Bennett becomes partner at the Transatlantic Agency. Catherine Cho has launched the new agency Paper Literary. She was at Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency. Forthcoming Colin Kaepernick‘s publishing company announced their first title — but it’s still not his memoir. (That was due last year, after a deal with Harper One in 2016 and another reported deal with One World in late 2017 also did not result in a published memoir.) Abolition for the People: The Movement for a Future without Policing & Prisons is an […]
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At Delacorte, Kelsey Horton has been promoted to senior editor and Alison Romig has been promoted to assistant editor. Merry Sun has been promoted to editor at Portfolio. Jordan Moblo has joined Netflix in the new role of director of literary, and is expected to hire a team under him. He was co-head of the creative acquisitions department at Disney. Renée Jarvis and Kima Jones both join Triangle House Literary as agents. Jarvis was at MacKenzie Wolf Literary; Jones is the founder of Jack Jones Literary Arts. Grace Ross has joined Acast as content development manager, acquiring new and existing podcast partners. […]
Prepare For The Season Ahead With Our New Buzz Books Fall/Winter Sampler
Today we launch our big Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter digital sampler, now in its twelfth year. With in-person events still shut down, and digital promotion continuing to take on a central role, we present excerpts from 51 of the most buzzed-about books scheduled for publication this fall and winter in an exclusive, free ebook. It’s all the fun and discovery of a convention floor, in an easy work-from-home package. Most Publishers Lunch readers will want the trade editions of Buzz Books, which include marketing/publicity and rights information and contacts for all of the titles, plus easy click-throughs to read or request full digital galleys on […]
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Alena Jones has been promoted to the newly created position of director of buying and content at the Seminary Co-op Bookstores. At Pan Macmillan, publishing director Vicki Mellor has returned from parental leave, and Gillian Green has joined the team permanently as publishing director, reporting to Pan publisher Lucy Hale. Green will build her own eclectic commercial list with an emphasis on reading group fiction, along with commissioning across historical fiction, women’s fiction, crime, thriller and saga. Alex Saunders has been promoted to commissioning editor, reporting to Wayne Brookes. Victoria Reynolds has joined Abrams Children’s as digital & social media marketing […]