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 line as publishing director. She joins from from First Second Books, where she was most recently the associate director, marketing & publicity. Gagliano says, “From awards to bestsellers, graphic novels have been advancing from success to success over the past decade. It’s the perfect time to […]
New Imprints
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. The Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards, honoring books that address racism and diversity, are going to Jesmyn Ward, Kevin Young, N. Scott Momaday and Shane McCrae. The newest book promotion from Bill Gates is for his late friend Hans Rosling‘s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the […]
People, Etc.
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 Cumbo, and Christina “Chrissy” Festa will add audio sales to her portfolio as director, audio, digital and online sales. The New York Times Book Review is adding a new monthly column about graphic novels and comics. The columnists will be Hillary Chute, author of Why Comics? From […]
People, Etc.
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 to chief operating officer. (Doug Stewart and Celeste Fine were both made vice president, as well.) At Knopf Children’s, Marisa de Novis has been promoted to assistant editor. Macmillan Children’s announced a number of promotions: Liz Dresner has been promoted to associate art director; Rebecca […]
Briefs: Flame Tree Publishing Launches; Gates Touts New Pinker; and More
London-based Flame Tree Publishing is building on their recent work in publishing genre short stories to launch the trade fiction imprint Flame Tree Press in September with 12 titles, and aims to publish 24 to 30 horror, crime, science fiction and fantasy books a year. Run by founder Nick Wells, Don D’Auria is the executive editor based in New York, working with the UK editorial board of Laura Bulbeck, Cat Taylor, Josie Mitchell, and Gillian Whitaker. Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will manage US sales. In the UK, former executive director of S&S UK and longtime Hachette UK executive Kerr MacRae has launched […]
Corporate: Amazon Tries Digital Stories Again; And More
Amazon is making yet another pass at short-form digital prose after years of failing to establish a market of scale, this time by announcing an imprint of Amazon Publishing called Amazon Original Stories. They will publish short works of fiction and nonfiction that can be read in a single sitting, available for purchase in the Kindle Singles store for $1.99 and free for Prime members. The first two titles, The Sign of the Beast by Joyce Carol Oates and Crown Heights by Colin Warner and Carl King, are already available, with work on deck from W. Kamau Bell, Jade Chang, Eddie Huang, Dean Koontz, and more. […]