Paul Baggaley will leave Picador after 11 years as publisher to become editor-in-chief for adult publishing at Bloomsbury UK early 2020, reporting to Emma Hopkin. Current EIC Alexandra Pringle will move up to executive publisher. Caitlin Meyer has been promoted to associate publicity director at Beacon Press. Catherine Cho will join the Madeleine Milburn Literary Agency…
Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea Tops November Library Reads
Erin Morgenstern’s The Starless Sea is the top pick for November’s Library Reads. Also on the list are The Bromance Book Club by Lyssa Kay Adams and Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Romance sampler. The rest of the list: The Deep, by…
Amazon’s CreateSpace Continues to Devour Self-Published Print Market
Bowker released their statistics charting ISBN-carrying self-published print and ebooks for 2018, showing continued strong growth for CreateSpace, which has eaten nearly the entire, still-expanding market (regulators, take note). CreateSpace issued 1.416 million self-published titles in print-on-demand editions in 2018 — up more than 52 percent from 2017. With that growth, they went from 85…
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Christopher Richards and Will Heyward have both been promoted to senior editor at Penguin Press. Leslie Cohen has been promoted to senior production manager, production services, at Chronicle Books. Elizabeth Breeden has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Simon & Schuster. At Simon & Schuster, Henna Cho has been promoted to sales associate on…
Booker Prize Awarded to Both Atwood and Evaristo
The Booker Prize judges broke with the award’s firm policy and jointly conferred this year’s award on two novels: The Testaments by Margaret Atwood and Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine Evaristo. Evaristo is the first black woman to win the prize, and at 79 Atwood is the oldest winner. (Atwood won the award in 2000…
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New Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk will appear at tomorrow’s Frankfurt Book Fair opening press conference to “talk about the political responsibility of authors.” At Simon & Schuster: Karen Fink has been promoted to field account manager, Lauren Castner moves up to manager, special markets, and Taylor Kwok is now coordinator, special markets. Chris White has…