NYT Book Review editor Pamela Paul will add oversight for the daily book reviews as well as Alexandra Alter’s publishing industry coverage, managing editor Dean Baquet announced to staff on Wednesday: “It will be Pamela’s job to think about how our coverage should change and, of course, how it should not change. (We will, for instance, maintain our Sunday Book Review. It is hard to imagine the paper without it.) Above all, we believe we have a significant opportunity to expand the audience for our books coverage.” Blaming the previous separation on a time “when the paper was divided according to […]
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Emma Dries has joined Ecco as an assistant editor. She was an editorial assistant at Knopf Doubleday. At Pegasus Books, Katie McGuire has been promoted to assistant editor. Kristin Dulaney has joined Macmillan Children’s as executive director of subsidiary rights. She was at Little Brown Children’s. Michelle Yandre joined BlueBottleBiz recently as PR manager. Longtime Ten Speed Press editor Veronica “Fuzzy” Randall, 61, died August 12 from cancer. Randall joined Ten Speed Press in 1990 and was senior editor upon her retirement in 2009. Publisher Aaron Wehner notes, “She had a great sense of humor, an infectious laugh, and a remarkable way with words. Fuzzy […]
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Pocket senior editor Abby Zidle will move over to Gallery Books Group marketing team as associate director of marketing. Shelby Howick has been promoted to associate publicist in the Grand Central publicity group. In obituaries, novelist and son of John Steinbeck, Thomas Steinbeck died last Thursday, at age 72. And founder of Hugo Books bookstore in Newburyport, MA Robert “Bob” W. Hugo, also 72, died on July 27. Awards James Shapiro‘s 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear and Benjamin Markovits‘s novel You Don’t Have to Live Like This won the UK’s two James Tait Black prizes. Kindle Unlimited Amazon’s retrospective payout allocation for […]
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Peter Knapp has rejoined Park Literary Group as an agent, focusing on middle grade and young adult fiction. Previously he was an agent at New Leaf Literary & Media. At Harper Christian, Becky Monds has been promoted to acquisitions editor for fiction, and Karli Jackson moves up to associate acquisitions editor. PEN America is bringing back their PEN/Nabokov Award — last awarded in 2008 — now providing a $50,000 prize “to a writer born or residing outside the United States for an outstanding body of work over a sustained career.” The organization’s first award focused on international authors, organization president Andrew Solomon adds in the […]
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Simon & Schuster Children’s announced a number of promotions and recent hires across various imprints. Sarah McCabe has been promoted to assistant editor, Simon Pulse. Nina Simoneaux has joined Aladdin as junior designer. Previously she was a design assistant at Random House Children’s, working on the Knopf, Crown, Delacorte, and Wendy Lamb imprints. Regina Flath has joined Random House Children’s as senior designer. Previously she was a senior designer at Simon & Schuster Children’s. In addition, Jaclyn Whalen has joined as designer. Previously she was a design associate at Vintage/Anchor. Annie Stone has joined BookBub as an account manager, where […]
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Lisa Erickson returns to the Crown Publishing Group as associate director of marketing for Crown, Hogarth, Broadway, and Tim Duggan Books (she has been at Little, Brown); Alaina Waagner recently joined the group as marketing manager (moving over from Random House). Ursula Cary has left Rodale Books, where she was a senior editor, to work as a freelance editor and writer, specializing in practical and narrative nonfiction. The Book Industry Charitable (Binc) Foundation has enlisted Ann Patchett and James Patterson as their inaugural ambassadors, to help “increase awareness of its mission to directly support booksellers with confidential emergency financial assistance.” More Opening […]