Alexis Gargagliano has left Scribner after more than 11 years and will work as a freelance editor. She has launched a new website and may be reached at alexisgargagliano@gmail.com. Olga Filina has joined The Rights Factory as an associate agent. She was a literary assistant at The Cooke Agency (after spending more than a decade as a sales manager at national and indie bookstores). To correct Friday’s personnel announcement, Tara Parsons is moving over to Mira as executive editor from HQN and Luna, where she held the same position. Haruki Murakami‘s Japanese publisher says that his next novel will be […]
New Releases/Forthcoming
People, Etc.
Poets & Writers has named Steve Berry, Rigoberto González, and Judith Kelman as the recipients of their annual Writers for Writers Awards. Berry is honored for his dedication to historic preservation of sites of literary importance; Kelman for founding Visible Ink, a writing program at Memorial Sloan Kettering; and González for championing Latina/o writers. Chuck Adams at Algonquin Books will receive their editor’s award and Leonard Riggio will be honored with the organization’s first leadership award “for his transformational impact on the field.” The awards will presented at their annual gala on March 18. Neil Gaiman will give a keynote speech at the London Book Fair’s Digital Minds Conference. Margaret Atwood, Jonathan […]
New Books, and Books In the News
It’s a big week for new releases, and we highlight 15 of them on the regularly-updated Just Published carousel at Bookateria. Featured home page books in the news include the memoir from Shirley MacLaine’s daughter Sachi Parker (LUCKY ME), which MacLaine has denounced; the WSJ questioning Truman Capote‘s “immaculately factual” account in the breakthrough IN COLD BLOOD; Nick Hornby‘s ABOUT A BOY may return to the screen as a television show; and fresh looks at Sylia Plath‘s poetry on the 50th anniversary of her death. For more great February picks, we show Amazon’s books of the month, BN’s February selections, […]
More Buzz on Buzz Books
Our launch of the big BUZZ BOOKS 2013 free ebook sampler has gotten nice attention all over, from the AP and USA Today to Bookselling This Week and lovely tweets from all over. (Special thanks to Washington Post critic Ron Charles and booksellers Emily Gould and Ami Greko among the tweets we’ve spotted so far.) If downloading a free ebook is a little too much commitment for you, we’ve also posted the entire book in a online reading widget, courtesy of Firebrand and Book2Look. (And that widget can be embedded elsewhere if you wish.) In a similar vein, USA Today […]
Buzz Books 2013 Shares Pre-Publication Excerpts from Big Spring and Summer Releases
With book discovery and exclusive content in the news today, we serendipitously have an announcement of our own: After last year’s successful experiment, today we are publishing BUZZ BOOKS 2013: Spring/Summer as a free ebook, in multiple versions. The new edition of BUZZ BOOKS–available on all major ebook platforms–presents substantial excerpts from 28 highly anticipated books set for release between March and July. For trade readers, it builds on the ABA’s Winter Institute 8, convening later this month in Kansas City, helping to amplify what has become the unofficial spring/summer launch event. For everyone who can’t make it to WI8, […]
In Forthcoming Book, Google Execs Warn on China
The Wall Street Journal went first on Friday with excerpts from Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen’s THE NEW DIGITAL AGE, which publishes April 23. They conclude “Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt is brutally clear: China is the most dangerous superpower on Earth.” On the heels of revelations of Chinese efforts to hack US news organizations, Schmidt and Cohen write in their book, “It’s fair to say we’re already living in an age of state-led cyber war, even if most of us aren’t aware of it.” The WSJ adds, “other parts of the book are a much darker take on how […]