Jennifer Alton has been promoted to associate editor at Counterpoint Press. Hector Torres has been promoted to senior sales manager, international direct comic market, and the Caribbean, Penguin Random House. At Holiday House, Peachtree Publishing, and Pixel+Ink, Aleah Gornbein has joined the newly merged marketing/publicity department as associate publicist; Alison Tarnofsky has joined as associate marketing manager, trade; and Alex Howard has been promoted to digital marketing coordinator. Bookselling Former librarian Stephanie Kitchen bought Chicago bookstore City Lit from founder Teresa Kirschbraun and will reopen on June 19. The store had closed eight months ago, unable to continue following months of […]
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Save Your Place for the Buzz Books Editors Panel
Remember to hold the date for our much anticipated virtual Buzz Books Editors Panel, convening on Wednesday, May 19 at 7 PM Eastern, co-presented by the American Booksellers Association. You can register here — and the first 50 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. In May, a week ahead of the panel, we’ll release the next packed edition of our popular digital sampler, Buzz Books 2021: Fall/Winter, with substantial excerpts from all of the featured titles along with dozens of other breakout new titles on the way. The panel will feature these […]
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At Random House Publishing Group, Alex Larned has been promoted to publishing manager, Del Rey & Licensed, and Aubrey Martinson to associate editor, Crown. At Clarkson Potter, Sahara Clement has joined as editor. She was previously assistant editor at Chronicle Books. Gabrielle Van Tassel has been promoted to associate editor. Nadine Britt has been promoted to senior vice president, executive director, production, Penguin Young Readers, starting May 16. Cindy Lee has been promoted to assistant director, marketing & digital content at the Workman imprint. Shona Burns has joined Knk as implementation consultant. She was previously executive director of production at Chronicle Books. […]
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Liese Mayer, editorial director, fiction, at Bloomsbury is leaving to freelance edit. She joined the company in 2017. Executive Director and coo Adrienne Vaughan said, “To say we will miss her is a significant understatement.” Nancy Miller has been promoted to publishing director, adult trade, and Mary Kate Castellani to publishing director, children’s trade. As part of this reorganization, the respective art departments will report to Miller and Castellani, along with managing editorial. The company will hire a new adult editorial director to oversee both fiction and nonfiction, reporting to Miller. At Insight Editions, Simon Fraser has joined the company as […]
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At Harper Children’s, Luana Horry and Clarissa Wong have each been promoted to senior editor and Sara Schonfeld is associate editor. Vaishali Nayak is now senior manager, marketing; Katie Dutton moves up to senior marketing associate, school & library marketing; and Shaelyn McDaniel becomes assistant manager, digital marketing. Lena Reilly is promoted to associate publicist; Caitlin Lonning to senior production editor; and Kat Keating to senior digital production editor. In new hires, Erin Hamling has joined as senior production editor (she was previously a development editor at Oxford University Press). At Penguin Random House Audio, Ellen Folan has joined as director […]
New Books Publishing May 4
Maggie Shipstead, Rachel Cusk, Chris Bohjalian, and Andy Weir lead this week’s new fiction releases (along with Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney’s Good Company — which you can sample now in our Buzz Books 2021 Spring/Summer anthology), while new nonfiction includes titles from Michael Lewis, Juliana Margulies, Anna Sale, and Casey Wilson: 24 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-May-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_May_/219327 18 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-may-4 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_May_/219328 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on […]