We’d like to congratulate our Publishing Services clients on their Foreword wins this year. Winning Independent Publisher of the Year was Other Press, and who can question that, with the outstanding list-after-list quality of their program.
Also, winning the overall Editors Choice for Nonfiction was La Cucina, published by Rizzoli, who dominated other categories as well this year (see below).
PHOTOGRAPHY:
Gold: Lamu by Carol Beckwith, Angela Fisher, David Coulson and Nigel Pavitt
Bronze: Image Collection by National Geographic Society
Honorable Mention: Uncovered by Reed Massengill
I felt very refined this last Thursday, as I sat in a suit and tie nursing a $16 glass of wine at one of Manhattan’s snazziest lounges. This is a very far cry from my normal Thursday evening of “Supernatural,” Ovaltine, gym shorts, and peanut butter and jelly. But once a year, I can afford it. And I’ll do basically whatever Dennis and Valerie tell me.
Dennis and Valerie are the co-publishers of Melville House, a Brooklyn-based indie publisher known for their smart, quirky books…and, locally, for their parties. On Thursday, they threw what they called the “Oscars for Book Trailers,” officially named the Moby Awards. They got some 200+ nominations from their blog readers. I don’t know how many hours of book trailers that comes to, but wow, they watched a lot. The winners received little golden (or were they silver?) whales, which, according to Dennis, will be “properly mounted” next year (they also apparently were not the right species of whale).
The categories included: Best Big-Budget Book Trailer, Best Low-Budget Book Trailer, Biggest Waste of Conglomerate Money, Best Cameo, Trailer Least Likely to Sell the Book, Best Performance by an Author, Most Annoying Performance by an Author, Bloodiest Book Trailer, and Best Foreign Book Trailer.
Melville has posted the results on MobyLives, their renowned book blog. Check it out for at least 15 minutes of entertainment.
The finalists for the 2010 PEN/Faulkner Award have been announced and two Random House, Inc. books are among them.
Lorrie Moore’s A Gate at the Stairsand Colson Whitehead’s Sag Harborjoin literary heavyweight Barbara Kingsolver (The Lacuna) and two others who are nominated for the award, which was founded by writers in 1980 and partially named after William Faulkner.
Previous Random House, Inc. winners in recent years include: Netherlandby Joseph O’Neill (2009), Everymanby Phillip Roth (2007) and The March by E.L. Doctorow (2006).
We just got word of another important list of awards for our books: The Amelia Bloomer Projectlist, a yearly round-up of strong feminist works. Here is what the project is all about:
“In an effort both to alert readers to society’s opposition toward women’s equality and to highlight progress toward this vital goal, the 2010 Amelia Bloomer Project members selected 54 books notable for feminist content, quality of writing, and appeal to young readers.”
And congratulations to the authors, editors, and contributors to the following books!
Members of our library mktg dept. attended the AASL conference last week and the buzz from the librarians revolved around the lack of women authors on this year’s Publisher’s Weekly Best Books of 2009 top ten list.
I just scanned the list myself, and while I am THRILLED to see Gillian Flynn’s Dark Places on the fiction round-up – I completely agree that it’s shocking to see such male domination. And they completely missed Jeannette Walls’ Half Broke Horses (Scribner)and A.S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book!
What do you feel PW missed? Which female authors do you think should be in the top ten list?
Did you know there were Video Book Awards? I confess, I did not. But three intriguing videos are finalists for Kirkus Reviews 2009 Book Video Awards. The Award “challenges student filmmakers to create video trailers based on three upcoming young-adult novels to be published by Random House Children’s Books. ”
Our exciting week here at Random House just keeps getting better!!
Wonderful news this afternoon from the Pulitzer Prize Board:Random House, Inc. books were awarded 2009 Pulitzers in three of the five Letter categories.
AMERICAN LION: Andrew Jackson in the White House by Jon Meacham (Random House)
General Nonfiction
SLAVERY BY ANOTHER NAME: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II by Douglas A. Blackmon (Doubleday)
Congratulations to our authors and to their publishers and editors, whose pride and accomplishment we all can share.
In the eleven years since Random House, Inc. came together as a merged company eighteen of our books have won Pulitzers–a feat unmatched by another trade-book publishing company.
ForeWord is pleased to announce the finalists in the 2008 Book of the Year Awards. More than 1,400 books were entered in 61 categories. These were narrowed to 668 finalists from 376 publishers. These books represent some of the best work coming from today’s independent press community. The winners will be determined by a panel of librarians and booksellers, selected from our readership. Gold, Silver, and Bronze winners, as well as Editor’s Choice Prizes for Fiction and Nonfiction will be announced at a special program at BookExpo America at the Javits Center in New York City on May 29.
Congratulations to the Random House distributed publishers whose titles have been selected as finalists!
Osprey finalists for Foreward’s Book of the Year Award
Other Press finalists for Foreward’s Book of the Year Award
Rizzoli finalists for Foreward’s Book of the Year Award
Welcome Books finalists for Foreward’s Book of the Year Award
Award judge Rendall Kenan says, “["Netherland"] is about the new and continuing immigrant story, about New Americans and the making of new American traditions, which has always been New York’s function in the world. O’Neill has created a powerfully entertaining novel, but also a new emblem for our time.”
