The National Book Foundation announced their latest list of 5 Under 35 honorees on Monday morning, all women, and all but one of whom are Penguin Random House authors. The one outlier so far, Butler, had her next book deal just announced, and Clemmons worked in editorial for a few years at Little, Brown. Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Riverhead) Halle Butler, Jillian (Curbside Splendor) Zinzi Clemmons, What We Lose (Viking) Leopoldine Core, When Watched: Stories (Penguin) Weike Wang, Chemistry (Knopf ) Being of a certain age, we started wondering what a […]
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Founder of Roaring Brook Press, and svp and publishing director of that imprint along with FSG Children’s and First Second Simon Boughton is leaving Macmillan Children’s after 13 years with the company. President and publisher of Putnam Children’s Jennifer Besser will take over the same position at Macmillan Children’s on October 30. President of Deseret Book Jeff Simpson was named to the additional position of president and publisher of the Deseret News as well. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Vanessa DeJesus will join as associate publicist starting September 25. She was most recently assistant manager of author events for Macmillan. Aubrey […]
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Annie Proulx will receive the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters at the awards ceremony on November 15, honored “for her exceptional work and significant impact on American literature.” Actor Anne Hathaway (who starred in the film adaptation of Brokeback Mountain) will present the award. Proulx tells the AP, “I was astonished when first I heard that news. I simply had not thought of my various writings as a body of work that might be considered as a contribution to American letters. It almost seemed that I had been negligent in writing what I considered discrete novels […]
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Byrd Leavell has moved to UTA. Waxman Leavell Literary Agency will revert to its original name, Waxman Literary Agency. Azia Cheng has been promoted to ceo of Penguin Random House North Asia, reporting to Markus Dohle, effective immediately. She has been sales director there since 2008 and succeeds Helen Duan, who departed last month. The Frankfurt Book Fair announced their 16 fellows for this year. New Directions editor Tynan Kogane is the first Fred Kobrak Frankfurt Fellow, a new award that will fund one participant a year for the next ten years. Awards Canada’s big Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for […]
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Shannon Jamieson Vazquez has joined Crooked Lane as senior acquisition editor. She continues to run SJV Editorial, and was previously an editor at Berkley. At Random House Children’s, Nancee Adams has joined as copy editor. She was previously was a freelance copy editor and proofreader. Bess Schelper has joined as associate copy editor. She was previously a website managing editor and social media editor, and worked on the Penguin Random House corporate metadata cleanup project. Miriam Miller has joined Holiday House Publishing in the newly created position of senior subsidiary rights manager, reporting to vp of rights, permissions and digital publishing […]
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Elizabeth Sheinkman will move to PFD as executive director of the books department and senior agent on October 5, and she will join the agency’s executive board. She has been at WME in London since 2012, moving over from Curtis Brown UK. Agency ceo Caroline Michel says in the announcement, “We are lucky to have someone with Elizabeth’s experience and knowledge joining the team and look forward to welcoming her and her clients and growing the business with her.” Sheinkman adds that she looks forward to “the chance at this juncture to develop new skills through a role that will […]