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BTW News Briefs [4]
Here’s what’s happening this week in the book industry:
The New York Times Book Review is making changes [5] to its print and online bestseller lists, including reducing some of its print lists from 15 to 10 titles, and bringing back lists for mass market paperbacks and a combined list for graphic books.
There is still time to nominate a business for the Indie Award [6], Independent We Stand’s national independent small business of the year award contest. The winner will receive a prize package valued at $25,000. Applications will be accepted through October 20.
Hearst Magazines is launching two new book imprints [7]: Hearst Home, which will publish illustrated lifestyle books, and Hearst Home Kids, which will publish children’s books.
HarperCollins Christian Publishing has appointed Don Jacobson [8] to senior vice president and books group publisher of HarperCollins Christian Publishing and its affiliate, HarperCollins Focus, effective October 7.
Simon & Schuster has promoted Julia Prosser [9] to vice president and director of publicity of the Simon & Schuster imprint. She replaces Cary Goldstein, who is leaving to head curation at media start-up WaitWhat.
Jennifer Murphy is joining [10] Quirk Books as marketing manager and publicist.
Alisse Goldsmith-Wissman has joined [11] Independent Publishers Group as publicity manager.
David Gilmore has joined Random House Children’s Books as marketing coordinator.
Novelist/poet Ocean Vuong is among the 26 people who have been chosen to receive the annual [12] MacArthur Genius Grant fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
The Center for Fiction has announced its shortlist for the [13] First Novel Prize.
Canada’s Scotiabank Giller Prize has announced its shortlist [14], which, notably, left out Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments. The award gives out C$100,000 prize for the best Canadian novel or short story published in English.
Clare Beams has won the [15] Bard Fiction Prize for her debut story collection, We Show What We Have Learned (Lookout Books). The $30,000 prize was established “to encourage and support young writers of fiction, and provide them with an opportunity to work in a fertile intellectual environment.”
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art celebrated the 14th annual [16] Eric Carle Honors in New York City on Setember 26. The awards highlighted “four outstanding luminaries for their creative vision and long-term dedication to the world of picture books.”
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