Aliya King Neil will join Gallery Books as a senior editor on April 5. She was previously editor-at-large at Medium. At Hachette Book Group, Megan Fitzpatrick has been promoted to executive director of marketing & publicity for Hachette Audio; Barbara Slavin to senior director of digital sales and business development; and Mary Urban to associate director of digital sales. Terri Lancaster has been promoted to senior production coordinator, reprints at Chronicle Books. Rick Garcia has joined Harper Collins as director of digital advertising for the general books group. He was previously head of programmatic advertising at Penguin Random House. Connor […]
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New Books Publishing March 30
Sharon Stone’s memoir is grabbing headlines, but this week’s nonfiction is a spectacular of extraordinary women: Eleanor Roosevelt; Queen Elizabeth II and her sister Margaret (in Andrew Morton’s latest); the abolitionist agitators Harriet Tubman, Martha Wright, and Frances Seward; and the record-breaking mountain climber Vanessa O’Brien. In fiction, Libertie, by Kaitlyn Greenidge, and Of Women and Salt, by Gabriela Garcia — both excerpted in our free Buzz Books sampler and both featured in our Winter Buzz Books Editors’ Panel — are among this week’s rich new works. 7 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-march-30 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_March_/219203 13 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-march-30 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_March_/219204 […]
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Christina Loff is leaving her role at Chronicle Books as senior marketing and publicity director to launch her own digital marketing and publicity agency where she will work with creative companies, artists, authors and publishers. George R.R. Martin has a new deal with HBO to develop additional programming for them over the next 5 years, THR reports, “worth mid-eight figures.” Obituaries Beverly Clearly, 104, author of the Ramona Quimby books, died on Thursday in Carmel, CA. Larry McMurtry, 84, author of more than 30 books including Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture show, died on Thursday in Archer, Texas. Unions […]
People, Etc.
Christine Palomino has been promoted to director, specialty retail field & category sales, Penguin Random House. At St. Martin’s Publishing Group: Danielle Fiorella has been promoted to art director; Young Lim to senior associate art director; and Jonathan Bush to senior associate art director. A memorial service for literary agent Frances Goldin will be held on Saturday, May 15, 2:00 PM at St. Mark’s Church in New York City (131 E 10th St.) with indoor and outdoor seating planned. The event will also be livestreamed. Anyone wishing to share a testimonial for Frances can submit a video of under two […]
People, Awards, Etc.
LaSharah S. Bunting will join the Simon & Schuster imprint as vice president and executive editor, starting May 3, and acquiring nonfiction and fiction. She was most recently director/journalism at John S. and James L. Knight Foundation At Gallery Books, Molly Gregory, Max Meltzer, and Maggie Loughran have each been promoted to associate editor. Awards Carmen Maria Machado‘s In the Dream House won the 2021 Rathbone’s Folio Prize. Australia’s Stella Prize announced its 2021 shortlist, with the winner to be named April 22: Fathoms, by Rebecca Giggs Revenge, by S.L. Lim The Animals In That Country, by Laura Jean Mckay Witness, […]
Book Excerpt: The Story Behind Ingram’s Abandoned Sale to Barnes & Noble
Ingram Content Group celebrates its fiftieth anniversary this year and is commemorating the occasion with the publication of THE FAMILY BUSINESS: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books on April 20. Author Keel Hunt conducted extensive interviews with many of the key participants in building ICG over the years. Former Simon & Schuster ceo Jack Romanos says in the book, “If you look at the last fifty years of trade publishing in America, Ingram’s evolution is as important as anything that’s happened…. I wouldn’t have wanted to have to run a great publishing company without Ingram’s help and support.” But […]