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International Bestsellers, July 2022

August 4, 2022

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Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Greece and Taiwan. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the original. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”. The lists are taken from major newspapers or national retailers, which are noted at the bottom of each list.

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Posted in International • Tagged 1991, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder, A Summer in Niendorf, All the Blue of the Sky, All Those Things I'll Tell You Tomorrow, Annihilation, Bei Ding, Bonnie Garmus, Boulevard, Caring Is Chaos, Circe, Colleen Hoover, Delia Owens, Dimitra Papadopoulou, Dreamland, Elisabet Benavent, Erin Doom, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Expatriate, Fish Have No Feet, Flor M. Salvador, franck thilliez, Fresh Water for Flowers, Goodbye Little One, Grief of All Kinds, Gu Man, Guillaume Musso, harper lee, Heart Bones, Heinz Strunk, Hervé Le Tellier, Holly Jackson, I Came Back From Others, Isabel Allende, It Ends With Us, jan weiler, Joel Dicker, Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Kilometer Zero, Lena Manta, Lessons in Chemistry, Letting Off Fireworks For You, Life and Death Are Wearing Me Out, Liu Tong, Love Is A Game Baby, Lucinda Riley, Madeline Miller, Manel Loureiro, Manufacturer of Tears, Mariana Leky, Mario Desiati, Matt Haig, Matteo Bussola, Maud Ankaoua, Maxim Huerta, Meatbun Doesn't Eat Meat, Megan Maxwell, Mélissa Da Costa, Michael Kobr, Michael McDowell, Michel Houellebecq, Mo Bao Fei Bao, Mo Yan, My Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, Nicholas Sparks, Nothing True, Ralf Rothmann, Rome Is Me, Rosemary Does Not Understand Winter, santiago posteguillo, Satoshi Yagisawa, Skidamarink, Stay Away From Gretchen, Susanne Abel, Sweltering Heat, The Alaska Sanders Case, The Anomaly, The Awning Man, The Black Book of Hours, The Bone Thief, The Enigma of Room 622, The Flood, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun, The Husky and His White Cat Shizun III, The Midnight Library, The Murders at Fleat House, The Night Under the Snow, The Possibilities, the road home, The Stamp, The Stars Are Bright, Three, to kill a mockingbird, Ugly Love, Valérie Perrin, Verity, Veronica Raimo, Violeta, Virginie Grimaldi, Volker Klüpfel, What I Never Said, What If We Try It…?, Where the Crawdads Sing, Xu Xuzhi, You Are My Glory

People Round Up, Early August 2022

By PT Editors

August 2, 2022

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Two years after joining Simon & Schuster as publisher of the adult imprint, SVP Dana Canedy is stepping down to write a sequel to her memoir, A Journal for Jordan. Her sequel, which Simon & Schuster plans to publish in 2024, is currently untitled. Canedy was previously administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes.

Diana Miller has been named VP and executive editor at Knopf. At Penguin Random House Publisher Services, Colleen Murphy has been appointed VP and director of national accounts; she was formerly VP of trade sales, speciality mass market, and production development at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. At Random House Children’s Books, Véronique Sweet joins as art director; previously, she was art director and picture book designer at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Also at Random House Children’s Books, Nadia Vertlib, previously product manager at Whitley, has joined as product manager. Dorothy Boyajy, contracts director at Crown, has retired.

Taryn Roeder, formerly senior director of publicity at HarperCollins’ William Morrow imprint, has joined Abrams as executive director of publicity for adult books.

At Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Erin Toller joins as senior director of marketing. Jill Hacking joins as associate director of marketing operations and events. At Post Hill Press, Adriana Senior joins as west coast acquiring editor-at-large.

Rachel Reiss has joined Shelf Awareness as director of marketing. She was most recently VP, associate publisher for Harlequin Trade Publishers.

Kaitlyn Kennedy, formerly senior account manager at Agency H5, is joining Kaye Publicity, Inc. as publicity director. She can be contacted at kaitlyn@kayepublicity.com.

Tara Lehmann, formerly publicity director at Oni Press, has joined TKO Studios as director of publicity.

Michael Higgins joins Harvard Education Publishing Group as associate director of marketing; he was previously marketing and promotion coordinator at Harvard University Press.

At Ingram Content Group, Caitlin Kleinschmidt, formerly associate director of national accounts at Workman, joins as senior key accounts sales manager for Lightning Source.

At Zibby Books, Kathleen Harris joins as executive editor. Kristine Anderson joins as trade marketing director; formerly, Kristine was marketing director at Quarto. Megan Ruggiero has joined ZCast as marketing manager.

Emily Taber is joining Basic Books and Seal Press as executive editor. She was previously acquisitions editor at MIT Press.

At Scholastic, Liz Palumbo joins as senior production editor; she was formerly associate managing editor at Abrams Children’s Books. Cindy Kim, lately associate editor at Little Simon, has joined Scholastic as editor, ages 0–8.

Stephan Moore, formerly marketing manager at Pushkin, has joined Spiegel & Grau as senior marketing manager. Nicole Dewey joins as publishing director. She will continue to run her PR firm Dewey Media Group.

Julianna Lee Marino has been named education programs manager at the National Book Foundation. Madeleine Shelton has been named awards and honors manager.

At Sourcebooks, India Hunter has joined as production editor. Zach Ramsdell joins as special markets coordinator. Teresa Devanzo joins as national accounts manager.

Betsy Groban has been appointed book review editor of the Jane Austen Society of North America. She can be contacted at betsy.groban@gmail.com.

Emily King, lately acquisitions editor at Fortress Press, has joined University of Notre Dame Press as senior religion editor. She can be contacted at emilyrbrower@gmail.com.

Stephen Fall, formerly foreign editions manager at Eaglemoss, has joined Insight Editions as editor.

Posted in Book View • Tagged Abrams, Abrams Children’s Books, Adriana Senior, Agency H5, Ainslie Campbell-Schwartz, Alexis Banyon, Algonquin Books, Alicia Samuel, Alisa Sakakura, Allison McGeehon, Amazon Publishing, Amelia Johnson, Amy Myer, Andrea Nelson, Artisan Books, Association of American Literary Agents, Bader Al-Awadi, Basic Books, Benita Flucker, Beth Pizio, Betsy Groban, Brad Richason, Brooke Horn, Caitlin Kleinschmidt, Candlewick Press, Cassandra Fernandez, Cindy Jerome, Cindy Kim, Colleen Murphy, Crown, Dana Canedy, Dewey Media Group, Diana Miller, Dorothy Boyajy, Eaglemoss, Ed Schlesinger, Emily King, Emily Taber, Erin Toller, Fortress Press, Gallery Books, Giselle Gonzalez, Grace Beehler, Guilford Press, Harlequin Trade Publishing, HarperCollins, Harvard Education Publishing Group, Harvard University Press, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, India Hunter, Ingram Content Group, Ingram's Lightning Source, Insight Editions, Interpop, Iowa Writers' Workshop, Jane Austen Society of North America, Janella Angeles, Janice Barcena, Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency, Jenne Abramowitz, Jennifer Weltz, Jeremy Wrubel, Jill Hacking, Judy Pray, Julianna Lee Marino, Kaitlyn Kennedy, Kathleen Harris, Kaye Publicity, Keith Parent, Kerry Milliron, Knopf, Kristin Lunghamer, Kristine Anderson, Lerner Publishing Group, Lightning Source, Lindsay Matvick, Little Brown Books for Young Readers, Little Simon, Liz Palumbo, Madeleine Shelton, Megan Manning, Megan Ruggiero, Michael Higgins, Mike Salisbury, MIT Press, Nadia Vertlib, Nicole Bit, Nicole Dewey, Oni Press, Penguin Random House, Penguin Random House Children’s Books, Penguin Random House Publisher Services, Perla Kantarjian, Post Hill Press, Priscilla Painton, Pushkin, Putnam, Quarto, Rachel Gluckstern, Rachel Reiss, Saleena Nival, Scholastic, Scott Gould, Seal Press, Shelf Awareness, Simon & Schuster, Simon and Schuster Children's, Sonny Mehta Fellowships, Sonny Mehta Scholarships, Sophie James, Sourcebooks, Spiegel and Grau, Stephan Moore, Stephanie Mendoza, Stephen Fall, Tara Lehmann, Taryn Roeder, Teresa Devanzo, The National Book Foundation, TKO Studios, Tom Doherty Associates, University of East Anglia, University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, University of Notre Dame Press, Veronique Sweet, Waseem Rashid, Whitley, William Morrow, William Morrow/HarperCollins, Workman, Workman Adult, Workman Books, Workman Publishing, Yates and Yates, Zach Ramsdell, Zachary Greenwald, ZCast, Zibby Books, Zui Kumar-Reddy

People Round-Up, Mid-July 2022

By PT Editors

July 14, 2022

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With the previously announced retirement of long-time Graywolf Press director and publisher Fiona McCrae, the Press has announced that Carmen Giménez will be joining in the role of executive director and publisher, beginning August 8th. She had been publisher of Noemi Press, which she and Evan Lavendar-Smith founded in 2002.

At Simon & Schuster, Reggie Hui has joined as senior director of contracts. He was previously at W.W. Norton. Heather Vieiro, formerly director of sales at North South Books Inc., has joined Simon & Schuster as national account manager. Lauren Acciari joins as national account manager for children’s sales. Lauren was previously merchandise sales manager at Independent Publishers Group. Erica Magrin also joins Simon & Schuster’s independent sales team as telesales account manager; she was formerly sales coordinator at Disney Worldwide Publishing. Margo Shickmanter has joined Avid Reader as executive editor. She was previously senior editor at Doubleday. Theresa Brown has joined Simon & Schuster as sales coordinator for digital and online sales. Susannah Lawrence, formerly director of publicity at Akashic Books, has joined as corporate communications associate. Jeff Wilson, vice president of contracts, is leaving after 36 years.

At Hachette, Angela Jun has joined as art director; previously, she was self-employed.

Grace Doyle and Carmen Johnson have both been appointed to the role of associate publishers at Amazon Publishing.

Jordan Moblo, formerly director of IP scouting and acquisitions at Netflix, has joined Universal Studio Group as executive vice president for creative acquisitions and IP management.

At Landscape Books and Disney Publishing Worldwide, Aliya King Neil has joined as executive editor; she was formerly senior editor at Gallery Books. Amanda Marie Schlesier has joined Disney Publishing Worldwide as account manager. Previously, she was acquisitions editor at Callisto Media.

At Coffee House Press, Erika Stevens has left her position as editorial director. Abbie Phelps, formerly production editor at Wise Ink Creative Publishing, joins as production editor. Kristen Bledsoe joins as executive assistant. Mara Winke joins Coffee House Press as individual giving director.

At Insight Editions, Maddison Rhoa joins as digital publishing program coordinator and Matt Girard joins the team as art director for entertainment and film.

Kristen Namba Reed has joined Bess Press as assistant director of publishing.

After spending her entire career at Chronicle Books, children’s book editor Taylor Norman will join Holiday House as executive editor of Neal Porter Books on July 18.

Aliya King Neil, formerly senior editor at Gallery Books, is joining Landscape Books as executive editor.

Charles Watkinson, director of the University of Michigan Press, has stepped into the presidency of the Association of University Presses.

In agency news…Myrsini Stephanides is launching Arc Literary Management, a full-service agency designed to champion creators through the full arc of their careers. The agency represents a broad array of bestselling, internationally renowned, and award-winning authors and illustrators. Visit Arc Literary at www.arcliterarymanagement.com. Agnes Carlowicz, formerly assistant to the president at Carol Mann Agency, has joined Arc Literary Management as literary agent. Iris Blasi also joins as a literary agent; she was previously an agent at Carol Mann Agency. Maile Beal, formerly subrights manager and junior agent at Carol Mann Agency, has joined Arc Literary Management as agent. Maile can be contacted at maile@arcliterary.com.

Tamara Kawar has joined DeFiore & Company as an agent. Joseph Earl Thomas has been named director of Blue Stoop. At Philip Turner Book Productions, Ewan Turner is working as Executive Editor and Literary Agent. Sara Vitale joins Maria B. Campbell Associates as junior scout; she was previously an assistant editor at Grove Atlantic.

Windy Dorresteyn has been named VP and director of marketing for Penguin Random House and Hogarth. Barbara Fillon has been named VP and director of media coaching and creative messaging at Random House. Carisa Hays has been named VP and director of publicity and special projects. Lauren Morrow has joined Dutton, Plume, and Tiny Reparations Books as senior publicist. Molly Pieper is joining Putnam as associate director of marketing; she was previously an associate director of marketing at Simon & Schuster Element. David Zimmer, corporate communications manager at Penguin Random House retires on July 1st.

Courtney Carbone, formerly editor at Scholastic, has rejoined Random House Children’s Books as editor. Also at Random House Children’s Books, Michele Campbell joins as assistant director of school marketing. Paula Baver, previously designer at Princeton Architectural Press, has joined Random House Children’s Books as designer.

At HarperCollins, Stuart Roberts joins Dey Street Books as executive editor. Megan Wordsworth, formerly associate publicist at INSP, has joined Thomas Nelson as publicity manager. She can be contacted at megan.wordsworth@harpercollins.com. Amanda Livingston, formerly internal communications and social media coordinator at Scholastic, is joining HarperCollins as marketing associate. She can be contacted at amanda.livingston@harpercollins.com.

Meghan Maria McCullough, formerly associate editor at Levine Querido, has joined Inkyard Press as editor. Olivia Valcarce also joins as editor; she was previously editor at Scholastic.

At Union Square & Co., Jay Sacher joins as senior editor; he was formerly senior editor at Clarkson Potter.

Allison Adler joins Chronicle Prism as senior editor. At Chronicle Books, Mary Duke joins as senior marketing manager. Also in that department, Mikaela Luke joins as marketing coordinator for children’s books. Aaron Chang joins as director of fulfillment and Annabelle Oh joins as senior distribution client manager. Kristie Raycroft also enters Chronicle Books as associate sales director while Shivangi Sangwan joins as associate director of e-commerce. Isabel Ngo joins as art editorial fellow and Randi Beck Ocena joins as children’s editorial fellow. Lauren Sheehan-Clark joins as entertainment editorial fellow.

Leticia Gomez, formerly CEO and founder of Savvy Literary, has joined Kensington Publishing Corp. as editorial director of Dafina.

Sam Glatt joins Macmillan Audio as assistant marketing manager.

At Scholastic, Aleah Gornbein joins as a publicist; she was previously associate publicist at Holiday House, Peachtree, and Pixel+Ink. Taylor McBroom joins as marketing manager; she was previously a senior marketing associate at HarperCollins Children’s Books. Taylor can be contacted at tmcbroom@scholastic.com.

At Sourcebooks, Shannon Barr joins as production editor. Sarah Boecher joins as children’s art director. Patrick Bird joins as shipping and receiving clerk.

Megan Logan joins EEP Universe as senior editor; she was previously editor at Workman Publishing.

Abby Muller, lately associate editor at Algonquin, joins Abrams Press and Overlook as editor. Danielle Kolodkin joins Abrams as brand and partnership manager; she was formerly manager of the speakers bureau at HarperCollins.

Tara Kennedy, formerly publicity director at Bloomsbury, has joined Legacy Lit/Grand Central Publishing as publicity director.

Nick Collins, managing editor, has left the Permanent Press. Nick can be contacted at nbcollins5@gmail.com.

Matthew Friberg, formerly senior editor, education at Routledge, has joined Parallax Press as senior editor of Plum Village. Matthew can be contacted at matthew@parallax.org.

Brian King is leaving his position as publisher of Appalachian Trail Conservancy.

Sarah Gorham, founder, will retire from Sarabande Books effective 12/31/2022. Sarah can be contacted at joanna@sarabandebooks.org.

Brandon Taylor has been named acquiring editor for L.A.–based indie publisher Unnamed Press, effective August 1.

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International Bestsellers, June 2022

By Nina Sabak

July 5, 2022

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Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Hungary and India. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the original. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”. The lists are taken from major newspapers or national retailers, which are noted at the bottom of each list.