The overall Costa Award went to poet Jo Shapcott for Of Mutability, prevailing over the favored Edmund de Waal memoir, The Hare With the Amber Eyes. Guardian Lucinda Blumenfeld has left Fletcher & Company and launched Lucinda Blumenfeld Literary Consulting (LBLC), an editorial and marketing firm for writers and authors. She will continue to represent select writers in both fiction and nonfiction. Plume senior editor Denise Roy is now serving as a senior editor at Dutton as well. She joined Penguin in 2009 after fifteen years at Simon & Schuster. Zachary Wagman is joining the Crown Trade group as editor on February 1, […]
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People, Etc.: Spence Leaves Quarto, and More
At Quarto in the UK, Piers Spence has stepped down from his role as director of co-edition publishing to run a farm in rural Devon where he plans to raise rare breed pigs and plant a vineyard. He will be replaced in February by David Breuer, chief executive of Royal Academy Enterprises, which operates the commercial activities of London’s Royal Academy of Arts, including its retail, book and magazine publishing operations. Spence will serve as a consultant to Quarto”for at least six months.” At HarperCollins’ Morrow-Avon division, Pamela Spengler-Jaffee has been promoted to senior director of publicity. She joined the […]
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Lynne Missen will join Penguin Canada as publishing director of children’s books on January 31. She has been executive editor at Harper Canada Children’s. Pamela Paul has been named children’s book editor for the New York Times Book Review, starting today. She is a journalist and book critic, the author of three nonfiction books, and is a columnist for the NYT‘s Style section. Her new position with the NYTBR is part-time. Pamela Clements has joined the United Methodist Publishing House as associate publisher for Abingdon Press’s Christian fiction program, and a new Christian Living line that debut in the spring of 2012, […]
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At becker&mayer!, as of April 1 Jim Becker will serve as president and publisher of the book packager, including overseeing SmartLab and other educational initiatives, while Andy Mayer will focus on new business development as publisher of Epic Ink, which produces high-end collectible books, and director of becker&mayer! productions, which develops and delivers innovative book-related products directly to retailers. Anna Erikson has joined The Creative Company as vp of retail sales to manage the Creative Editions and Creative Paperbacks imprints. Previously she was at Chronicle Books as director of distribution client services. At Harlequin, Emily Rodmell has been promoted to […]
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Pete Bohan will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as senior marketing manager, retail on January 24, based in New York. He previously worked as marketing manager at Chronicle. Children’s publisher Blue Apple Books will move distribution to Random House Publisher Services from Chronicle Books, effective July 1, 2011. Accenture chairman and former ceo William (Bill) D. Green is joining the board of directors of McGraw-Hill. Peter Costanzo is joining F+W Media as director of digital content. He was previously director of online marketing at the Perseus Books Group. Author and critic Wilfrid Sheed, 80, “the wittily satirical man of letters […]
People, Etc.: Poets & Writers Honorees Include Grisham, Galassi; Edgar Award Nominees; and More
John Grisham, Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Elizabeth Nunez will receive Poets & Writers 2011 Barnes & Noble Writers for Writers Award, and Jonathan Galassi will be honored with their Editor’s Award. Poets & Writers executive director Elliot Figman says of Galassi, “one can hardly imagine contemporary American literature without him.” The awards will be presented at their benefit dinner on March 2. Grisham is being recognized for having “done much to enrich the literary tradition of the American South. He was the publisher and principal investor in The Oxford American, and has endowed scholarships and writers’ residencies at the University […]