Penguin Random House UK has shut down events arm Penguin Connect, which connected authors with businesses for corporate events, The Bookseller reports. The three employees who worked on the team have left the company.
Knopf Canada Launches Alchemy; Soft Skull Partners With Kimbilio
Knopf Canada has launched Alchemy, a new publishing program led by poet and novelist Dionne Brand. Brand will work with publishing director Lynn Henry and publisher Martha Kanya-Forstner to publish two-to-three fiction and nonfiction titles per year. Elsewhere, Soft Skull Press will partner with fiction writing community Kimbilio, “acquiring up to two books a year from Kimbilio fellows and faculty members” over the next three years, with the first title publishing in late 2023. Editor-in-chief Mensah Demary will select the manuscripts, which will receive a publishing contract and $10,000 prize. Kima Jones at Triangle House Literary represented the partnership. Established […]
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Elizabeth Stranahan has joined Random House Children's as an associate editor. Angela Song has joined the RHCB licensed publishing editorial group as associate editor. Song was previously at Clarion Books.
June Picks
Young Adult Buzz Books Editors Panel in One Week
Our virtual Buzz Books Young Adult Editors Panel will be Wednesday, June 8 at noon Eastern. Our editors panels are curated, free events. Once again, we are honored to have the American Booksellers Association join us as co-presenter, with our own Erin Somers as host. You can register here — and the first 25 booksellers who enroll will get a package of galleys for the featured titles. Our just-released digital sampler, Buzz Books 2022: Fall/Winter includes substantial excerpts from the YA Editors Panel books, along with dozens of other not-yet-published breakout titles. The Young Adult Buzz Panel will feature these authors and editors […]