Haley Swanson has joined Harper and Harper Wave as assistant editor. She was an editorial assistant at Viking. KF Literary Scouting has been appointed YA and children’s scout for Record in Brazil and Urano in Spain and Latin America. Imprints Penguin Random House UK is launching a new imprint with English rapper Stormzy called #Merky Books. The imprint will be…
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John Siciliano has been promoted to executive editor for Penguin Books. He continues as executive editor for Penguin Classics. Remy Cawley has joined Nation Books as an assistant editor. Cawley was formerly at Norton. Michelle Obama‘s Facebook page features a video with remarks from her recent appearance at the ALA’s annual conference in New Orleans,…
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Tracey Guest has been promoted to vice president, executive director of publicity for St. Martin’s. Franklin & Siegal Associates has added adult scouting to their work for Aschehoug in Norway, while continuing with YA and middle grade. Imprints Random House Children’s is launching a new graphic novel imprint, Random House Graphic, in fall 2019. Gina Gagliano will lead the…
Awards, and More
Awards Joan Silber won the PEN/Faulkner Award for her novel Improvement (which won the NBCC Award last month.) She will receive the $15,000 award at a ceremony on May 5 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. John F. Cogan will receive the Manhattan Institute’s Hayek Book Prize for The High Cost of Good Intentions….
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Seth Russo, vice president and director of international sales at Simon & Schuster will retire on April 20, after 35 years in international sales. Executive director, global digital and international sales Colin Shields will take on the direct, day-to-day responsibility for the international sales channel. Newly reporting to him will be Rema Badwan and Danielle…
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Rachel Ekstrom Courage has moved to Folio Literary Management as an agent representing adult, young adult, and middle grade fiction and select nonfiction projects. Previously she was an agent at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency. At Sterling Lord Literistic, Laurie Liss has been promoted to executive vice president and managing partner, and Nadyne Pike moves up…