National Book Award Longlist: Young People’s Literature
Obituary: Mary Evans
Literary agent Mary C. Evans, 74, died peacefully at her home in Hudson, NY on September 4. She started her publishing career at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and then spent 17 years at the Virginia Barber Literary Agency before opening her own agency in 1994, Mary Evans Inc., which continues to serve current authors. She represented writers including Abraham Verghese, Erika Krouse, Michael Chabon, Charles D’Ambrosio, Sally Fallon, and many more Memorial contributions in her honor may be made to Bridge Hotel Farm — 184 Orchard Rd, Hudson, NY 12534. Funeral arrangements are private and under the care of Breanna […]
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Imprints: PRH UK’s Dusk
Penguin Random House has launched Dusk, a new adult imprint “focused on romance, fantasy and crossover fiction,” according to The Bookseller. Publisher Carmen McCullough and editorial director Amina Parchment-Youssef will lead the imprint, which will publish its first titles this fall. “Some of the most exciting energy in publishing today is coming from a generation of readers who don’t see themselves, or their reading tastes, in traditional categories,” McCullough told the magazine. “They move effortlessly between YA, new adult and adult fiction, between romance and fantasy, discovering books through friends, creators and online communities, and turning the stories they love into […]