Monthly Archives: March 2023

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Celebrating Our Audie Awards® Winners

Four Penguin Random House Audio recordings published last year were bestowed best-in-category honors at the Audio Publishing Association’s (APA’s) 2023 Audie Awards®, held at Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers’ Pier Sixty on March 28. The premier industry-awards program recognizes distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment. Continue reading →

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Our Emily Bates a “PW Sales Rep of the Year” Finalist

A delightful tradition continues: our PRH colleague Emily Bates has been named one of the five finalists for Publisher Weekly’s 2023 “PW Sales Rep of the Year.” The award is given annually each spring, with the winner selected by a panel of booksellers across the country. Continue reading →

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Remote Postcards are In!

Scenes from a farm in Ohio

You wrote in from snowy Lake Huron, the awe-inspiring Garden of the Gods, and even a working farm in Ohio. Some of you love feeling like you’re in a Jane Austen novel and some of you love biking beach trails year-round. Thanks to all who sent in their remote postcards this winter! We look forward to hearing from you this summer.

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Our NBCC Autobiography, Biography, Sandrof Prize Winners: Hsu, Gage, Harjo

After three straight years of virtual awards ceremonies, the National Book Critics Circle returned to the New School in Manhattan on March 23, 2023 for an in-person presentation. The group’s awards are given each March, and honor literature published the previous year in six categories: Autobiography, Biography, Criticism, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Poetry.

Congratulations to our three winners, whose works were selected in voting by working book editors, reviewers, commentators and essayists—and also to our Finalists, and to their publishing teams.

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PRH Authors Awarded National Humanities Medals and National Medal of Arts

On March 21, President Biden presented the National Humanities Medals and National Medal of Arts at the White House to an amazing group of highly accomplished humanitarians, authors, musicians, and actors. We are proud that among those awarded the National Humanities Medal were three current Penguin Random House authors: Bryan Stevenson, Tara Westover, and Colson Whitehead. Additionally, PRH backlist authors Johnnetta Betsch Cole and Amy Tan are also new medalists. The National Humanities Medal celebrates those whose work “has deepened the nation’s understanding of the human experience, broadened the citizen’s engagement with history or literature, or helped preserve and expand Americans’ access to cultural resources.”

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My Path to PRH: Lindsay Francis on Onboarding Remotely and Expanding Your Work Network

Lindsay Francis

Everyone has unique career stories to tell. In our My Path to Penguin Random House series, PRH colleagues share how they entered the world of book publishing, what led them to our company, insights into their jobs, and their future professional aspirations.

This week, we’re featuring Lindsay Francis, Analyst, Sales Strategic Planning, Sales as she tells us her story in her own words.

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Dolly Parton’s BEHIND THE SEAMS Publishing This October

We’re thrilled to announce the publication of BEHIND THE SEAMS: My Life in Rhinestones (Ten Speed Press) by legendary singer and songwriter Dolly Parton, publishing October 17, 2023. In BEHIND THE SEAMS, Dolly Parton shares, for the first time, the full story behind her lifelong passion for fashion, including how she developed her own, distinctly Dolly style, which has defied convention and endeared her to fans around the world.

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There’s a Book for That: Women’s Historical Fiction

As we continue to honor Women’s History Month in March, it’s clear that novels about historical women are exceedingly popular. Thus, we’ve curated some new and noteworthy books for fans of the genre, or any reader who may like a dose of imagination with their history. The following fiction is sure to entertain and educate while you immerse yourselves in the fascinating lives of historical heroines!

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