Diana Pho has been promoted to editorial director at Erewhon Books. Pho posted on social media,
Marking my upcoming 2-year anniversary at the company, I’m so, so thrilled to announce that I have been promoted…. Grateful to have the support from the Erewhon and Kensington Publishing teams as we level up!
Pho joined the company as executive editor in 2022. This promotion follows the departure of publisher Sarah Guan earlier ...Read More
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VIDA CRUZ-BORJA is now represented by Stevie Finegan of Zeno Agency Ltd.
SCOTT WESTERFELD & JUSTINE LARBALESTIER sold adult novel The Mortons – “The Secret History meets The Sopranos meets Saltburn,” – and a second book to Jeramie Orton at Pamela Dorman Books at auction via Jill Grinberg of Jill Grinberg Literary Management. UK rights sold to Rosa Schierenberg at Viking UK in a ...Read More
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Strange Horizons has announced the launch of a year-long podcast series, SH@25, in celebration of their 25th anniversary.
SH@25 will feature “interviews with authors, artists, poets, and former staff of Strange Horizons, charting the magazine’s 25 year trajectory from being founded in September 2000 to winning a Hugo in August 2024, as well as looking ahead at its future.” The project will be led by podcast editor Kat Kourbeti and ...Read More
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Matthew Reardon, AKA JRH Lawless, has withdrawn his candidacy for secretary of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association (SFWA) special election. While there are now no official candidates, Steven D. Brewer is a write-in candidate for the position.
SFWA is holding the special election for president and secretary following the resignations of president Jeffe Kennedy and vice-president Chelsea Mueller, among others. Secretary Anthony W. Eichenlaub is currently interim president. ...Read More
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In the newly released Summer 2024 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, publisher Gordon van Gelder explains that “Ongoing production problems have led us to skip the Spring issue and to switch to a quarterly schedule.”
He apologized to “disappointed readers” and assured subscribers that they would not be shorted any issues. “Thank you for bearing with us during this rough stretch.”
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REBECCA YARROS’s Fourth Wing (Red Tower) won in the International Book of the Year category at the TikTok Book Awards, held July 25, 2024 in London. Winners were voted on by the #BookTok community.
’PEMI AGUDA’s “Breastmilk” (One Story 5/27/21) is a finalist for the £10,000 Caine Prize for African Writing. The winner will be selected by a panel of judges and announced September 17, 2024.
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Saga Press, the SF/F imprint of Simon & Schuster (S&S), has announced several promotions and other changes.
Tim O’Connell has become vice president and publisher of Saga, moving from his role as vice president and editorial director of fiction at S&S, though he will continue to acquire for the latter. He will report to S&S VP and publisher Sean Manning.
Joe Monti has been promoted to vice president, associate publisher, ...Read More
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JOSEPH COELHO won the 2024 Yoto Carnegie Medal for Writing for The Boy Lost in the Maze, illustrated by KATE MILNER (Otter-Barry). The award was presented by the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.
CLARE WINGER HARRIS (1891-1968) is the winner of the 2024 Cordwainer Smith Rediscovery Award, intended to bring attention to lesser-known SF and fantasy authors, announced at Readercon 33, held July 11-14, 2024, in ...Read More
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Canadian independent horror publisher DarkLit Press appears to be defunct; their website and social media accounts are no longer functional, and messages sent to their emails bounce.
Some of their authors, including Steve Stred, have reported problems in recent months, including unpaid royalties, a lack of royalty statements, communication difficulties, and other issues.
DarkLit was founded in 2021 by Andrew Robert, but he left the company earlier this year, with ...Read More
Read moreAuthor Neil Gaiman, 63, has been accused of sexual assault by two women in a podcast produced by British news website Tortoise Media; Gaiman reportedly ‘‘strongly denies’’ the allegations.
The podcast, titled Master: The allegations against Neil Gaiman, was released in July 2024. One account comes from a woman going by ‘‘Scarlett,’’ now 23, who was hired as a nanny at Gaiman’s home in New Zealand, and alleges that ‘‘Gaiman ...Read More
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Starship Sloane Publishing has announced the revival of classic SF magazine Galaxy Science Fiction, originally published from 1950-80, with a brief revival in the ’90s.
The journal is being brought back in both print and digital form “for a contemporary audience, featuring both authors from its original run and beyond into today’s global SF landscape, with works spanning seven countries.”
Authors and artists include Eugen Bacon, F.J. Bergmann, Eliane Boey, ...Read More
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EUGEN BACON is the 2024 Hedberg Writer-In-Residence at the University of Tasmania in Hobart, Australia, and will spend three months writing, teaching, and “taking part in community conversations.”
TED CHIANG is the winner of the 2024 PEN/Malamud Award for Excellence in the Short Story, which “recognizes writers who have demonstrated exceptional achievement in the short story form.” Chiang will be honored at the annual PEN/Malamud Award Ceremony on ...Read More
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Kerry C. Byrne, CEO of Canadian magazine Augur and the more recently established Tales & Feathers, has announced a restructuring of the Augur Society organization, including magazine pay rates. Toria Liao has been named chief operating officer while longtime Augur co-editor-in-chief Terese Mason Pierre has been named chief program officer.
Augur Magazine and Tales & Feathers Magazine will combine teams and move away from an Editor-in-Chief model, delegating workload. Augur ...Read More
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Submissions for the Speculative Literature Foundation’s (SLF) Diverse Writers Grant and Diverse Worlds Grant are open through July 31, 2024.
Each grant awards a recipient $500. Diverse Writers “is intended to support speculative fiction writers from underrepresented and underprivileged groups” while Diverse Worlds “is intended for work that best presents a diverse world, regardless of the writer’s background.” Winners will be announced September 15, 2024.
The Speculative Literature Foundation is ...Read More
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Apex Book Company has announced a new imprint, Violet Lichen Books, headed by editor-in-chief Marissa van Uden.
The imprint will publish horror and dark fiction novellas, with an emphasis on “New Weird, Weird, folk horror, eco-horror, and eco-science-fiction. It fully embraces the strange and uncanny, and its books aim to leave readers feeling a little changed and disquieted, as if they have just emerged from under a strange spell. Violet ...Read More
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SARAH GAILEY will be toastmaster at the 59th Annual Nebula Awards, to be presented June 8, 2024 in Pasadena CA.
ALI TROTTA is now represented by Eric Smith of P.S. Literary.
YIYUN LI’s Wednesday’s Child (Farrar, Straus, Giroux) and ED PARK’s Same Bed, Different Dreams (Random House) were finalists for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in the Fiction category, given for “distinguished fiction published in book ...Read More
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Arnaud Lagardère, CEO of Lagardère SA (parent company of Hachette Book Group), was required to step down from his position after being charged with ‘‘vote buying, abuse of power and breach of trust, disseminating false or misleading information and failure to publish accounts.’’ He is under judicial supervision and was ordered to produce a bond of €200,000. The charges stem from an investigation into the battle for control of the ...Read More
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Penguin Random House has announced the removal of two of its most prominent publishers: Reagan Arthur, head of Alfred A. Knopf, and Lisa Lucas, who ran Pantheon and Schocken, are both out in a surprise restructuring.
Lucas, at least, didn’t see it coming, posting on social media that she learned of the dismissal on Monday morning, and adding, “I have some regrets about spending the weekend working.”
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MAGGIE SEKELLA is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.
DAVID LANGFORD won the Doc Weir Award, given to ‘‘someone in fandom who helps make things happen, contributing time, effort, ideas and support – often behind the scenes,’’ at Eastercon, held March 24 – April 1, 2024 in Telford, UK.
ZAIN KHALID, author of Brother Alive, is one of the National Book Foundation’s ‘‘5 ...Read More
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Literary speculative fiction magazine Apparition Lit will close at the end of 2024.
The magazine was founded in 2017 by Rebecca Bennett, Clark Doty, Amy Robinson, and Tacoma Tomilson, who all served as senior editors.
In a post on Patreon, the editors thanked their staff and contributors, and explained, “It comes down to this: we’re tired and most of all, we miss writing for ourselves.”
Apparition Lit is no longer ...Read More
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Shoreline of Infinity has announced a spin-off publication, SF Caledonia, edited by founding publisher and editor Noel Chidwick. SF Caledonia will showcase “the often overlooked contributions by Scottish writers to the popular worlds of science fiction, speculative fiction and fantasy.” The new publica tion will initially re-publish public domain stories, and is also open to “all Scottish writers wishing to submit already published work.” Chidwick says,
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Lee & Low publishers have released their latest diversity survey, documenting ‘‘incremental’’ changes in the demographics of the publishing industry in North America. ‘‘We know institutional change takes time to bear fruit, which is why revisiting the survey every few years is so vital.’’ The survey reached out to executives and staff at 200 companies, including trade and academic presses, literary agencies, and review publications, and received over 8,600 responses. ...Read More
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Hachette, HarperCollins, Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, and Sourcebooks have joined a previously reported lawsuit opposing Iowa’s SF 496, a law that seeks to ban books depicting sex or involving gender identity or sexual orientation. They join existing plaintiffs Penguin Random House; the Iowa State Education Association (ISEA); authors Laurie Halse Anderson, John Green, Malinda Lo, and Jodi Picoult; three teachers; and a high school student.
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F.J. BERGMANN has been named Grand Master by the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association. The award is given to “an individual living at the time of selection whose body of work reflects the highest artistic goals of the SFPA, who has been actively publishing within the target genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy for a period of no fewer than 20 years, and whose poetry has been noted ...Read More
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Forbes contributors have released their list of the 30 greatest book series of all time, including the Red Rising Saga by Pierce Brown (Del Rey), the Dresden Files by Jim Butcher (Penguin Random House), the Expanse series by James S.A. Corey (Orbit), The Earthsea Cycle by Ursula K. Le Guin (Simon & Schuster), the Mistborn Trilogy by Brandon Sanderson (Tor), and the Witcher Saga by Andrzej Sapkowski (Hachette).
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The American Library Association (ALA) has released their Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2023, including some works and authors of genre interest:
The ALA listed the top 10 most challenged ...Read More
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Venerable book distributor Small Press Distribution has abruptly closed after 55 years in business, leaving scores of independent publishers without distribution — and without expected payments. The company posted an announcement about the closure on March 28, 2024:
It is with great sadness and a profound gratitude for the amazing literary community we have served that we must today announce that Small Press Distribution (SPD) is closing its doors effective ...Read More
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DAVID-CHRISTOPHER GALHEA is now represented via Ginger Clark Literary.
DANI RAANAN is now represented by the John Jarrold Literary Agency.
J. FEDERLE is now a client of Ginger Clark Literary.
SUSAN COOPER is the 40th recipient of the Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award, presented via the Science Fiction & Fantasy Writers Association. She will be honored June 6-9, 2024, at the 59th Nebula Awards Ceremony in ...Read More
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden is transitioning from VP, associate publisher, and editor-in-chief of Tor to editor-at-large for the Tor Publishing Group.
Publisher and president Devi Pillai says,
I’m thrilled to announce that Patrick Nielsen Hayden has assumed the title of Editor-at-Large for the Tor Publishing Group. With 35 years at the company, Patrick has long been a central part of TPG. He is responsible for publishing the debut novels of many ...Read More
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