People Andrew DeSio has joined Dey: Ideas + Influence as their director, books. Most recently he was at Fortier Public Relations. Picks Jenna Bush Hager’s Today Show Read With Jenna book club named Rumaan Alam‘s Leave the World Behind as its pick this month. Barnes & Noble also chose the book as its October National Book Club selection. On the National Book Award’s longlist for fiction, as noted previously the book was featured earlier this year in our Buzz Books 2020 Fall/Winter sampler with an early excerpt. Forthcoming Ethan Hawke‘s novel A BRIGHT RAY OF DARKNESS, his fifth book, will be published […]
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Mary Krienke has been promoted to agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. Elizabeth Vogt has been promoted to associate editor at Viking Penguin. Hannah Ladds will join the Madeleine Milburn Agency as dramatic rights agent on October 5. She was most recently at David Higham Associates. Harper Children’s announced a new leadership structure at their flagship Harper imprint, with vp, director of publishing, the Harper Group Rich Thomas leading the line. VP, publishing director, Nancy Inteli will lead the picture book and programs teams and vp, publishing director Erica Sussman will lead the middle grade, teen, and IP teams. Both will […]
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The Association of American Publishers (AAP) board unanimously elected vice chair and Wiley ceo Brian Napack as their new chair, effective September 25, taking over from John Sargent, who resigned in conjunction with his pending departure from Macmillan. A new vice chair will be elected separately. Additionally, new Macmillan trade ceo Don Weisberg has taken Sargent’s board seat, Simon & Schuster ceo Jonathan Karp has filled the late Carolyn Reidy’s seat, and Norton chair and president Julia Reidhead joined the board after being voted into an at-large seat in June. Powell’s Books has hired business consultant Patrick Bassett as their […]
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Jamia Wilson will join Random House as vice president and executive editor, starting January 4. She was most recently executive director and publisher of The Feminist Press. At Putnam, Nishtha Patel has been promoted to marketing coordinator; Nicole Biton to associate publicist; and Sydney Cohen to associate publicist. Awards The National Book Foundation announced the titles for the third and final year of its Literature for Justice program: Dionne Brand, Ossuaries Nicole R. Fleetwood, Marking Time Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Golden Gulag Sarah Haley, No Mercy Here Kelly Lytle Hernández, City of Inmates Assata Shakur, Assata Albert Woodfox with Leslie George, […]
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Katie McGuire has joined Tapas Media as novel acquisitions lead. She was previously editor at Pegasus Books. Updates The recently-announced increase in entry-level salaries for employees of Macmillan‘s US trade division does not apply to the separate education company, Macmillan Learning. Asked to comment, a spokesperson told PL, “We were not aware that our trade partners were instituting an off-cycle change. We review salaries annually and plan on taking another look after the close of our fiscal year.” Initiatives The Book Industry Study Group has joined with its counterparts in Canada (BookNet Canada) and the UK (Book Industry Communications) to […]
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Lindsay Guzzardo joins Martin Literary & Media Management as literary manager of adult fiction. She was previously editor at Amazon Publishing before working independently. Aria Gmitter joins Whimsy Literary Agency as literary agent. She is an editor and freelance writer and was previously literary assistant to Peter Miller of Global Lion Intellectual Property Management. Former bookseller Bill Savran, 84, “best known for being the owner and visionary behind Savran’s Books, a Minneapolis institution near the University for more than 20 years,” died on September 20. Awards Rick Atkinson won the 2020 George Washington Prize for The British are Coming: The […]