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My Path to PRH: Jamie Lapeyrolerie on Acquiring Heartfelt Voices & Starting Your Own Literary Holiday

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 Jamie Lapeyrolerie, Editor, WaterBrook and Multnomah, as she tells us her story in her own words.

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Dutton’s THE SWIFTS Takes Home the Barnes & Noble Children’s Book Award!

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THE SWIFTS: A Dictionary of Scoundrels by debut author Beth Lincoln (Dutton Books for Young Readers) is the Young Reader Winner and the Overall Winner of the Barnes & Noble Children’s Book Awards! The Barnes & Noble raves, “Shenanigan, Phenomena and Arch-Aunt Schadenfreude won over booksellers nationwide and deserve a spot on the shelf of every young reader.”

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WaterBrook’s FIND YOUR PEOPLE Wins the 2023 Christian Book of the Year Award®

When Jennie Allen‘s FIND YOUR PEOPLE (WaterBrook) released in 2022, it became an instant New York Times bestseller and appeared on bestseller lists for USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly and Evangelical Christian Publishers Association.

Now, it’s been awarded the highly-coveted 2023 Christian Book of the Year Award®! Presented annually since 1978, the Christian Book Award® program honors the “best of the year” in Christian literature. This year, the awards took place in Nashville, Tennessee on May 9 and winners were selected from 72 finalists.

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Doubleday Canada to Publish Comedy Legend Rick Mercer’s Memoir This Fall

Doubleday Canada is pleased to announce that it will be publishing a new memoir from Canadian comedy legend Rick Mercer this fall. THE ROAD YEARS, a follow-up to the blockbuster bestselling TALKING TO CANADIANS, will be in stores this November and picks up where TALKING TO CANADIANS left off: the greenlighting of what would become Rick Mercer Report. Plans for the show, of course, included political satire and Rick’s patented rants. But Rick and his partner were also determined to do something that comedy tends to avoid as too challenging: they would emphasize the positive. Rick would travel from coast to coast to coast in search of everything that’s best about Canada, especially its people. He found a lot to celebrate. Continue reading →

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Cartoonist Sammy Harkham on Authentic World-Building & Going Beyond Stereotypes

Today, we bring you Sammy Harkham, award-winning cartoonist and editor, and author of BLOOD OF THE VIRGIN (Pantheon), a graphic novel fourteen years in the making. Set primarily in Los Angeles in 1971, BLOOD OF THE VIRGIN is the story of twenty‑seven‑year‑old Seymour, an Iraqi Jewish immigrant film editor who works for an exploitation film production company. Harkham brings us into the underbelly of Los Angeles in an epic story of artistic ambition, heartbreak and what it means to be human.

Shelved asked Harkham about tips for authentic world-building and graphic novels that challenge our ideas of what the medium is. Read on to learn more!

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Laura Keefe & Nicholas Latimer Discuss “The Debut Author and Modern Marketing” with New York Book Forum

In this panel with New York Book Forum, Laura Keefe, Senior Director of Marketing, Knopf Doubleday and Nicholas Latimer, VP and Senior Director of Publicity, Knopf Doubleday talk pitch letters, review outlets, Booktok and the decades-old question: can you can judge a book by its cover? Hint: Sort of. This panel takes on the complex world of modern book marketing and how to navigate it with first-time authors, as well as the creative strategies opening up new channels for reaching readers.

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Roy Finamore, Clarkson Potter Editor and Award-Winning Author, Passes Away at 70

Roy Finamore, photo courtesy of his sister, Marie Finamore.

Roy Finamore, a James Beard award-winning author and notable editor of cookbooks and lifestyle books, died on May 6 after a brief illness. He was 70.

He was born and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. After attending SUC Brockport and majoring in theater, he left to start a small theater company in Vermont with friends, later moving to New York City. Gradually the freelance editorial work he undertook to support his acting career made way for full-time publishing when he was hired as an editor of lifestyle and design books by Stewart, Tabori & Chang in 1983, where his authors included Tim Street-Porter, Chris Madden, and Abbie Zabar. He joined Clarkson Potter in 1989 as a senior editor and went on to publish award-winning and bestselling cookbooks by Martha Stewart, Ina Garten, Diana Kennedy, Jean Anderson, Anne Willan, Lee Bailey, Carole Walter, Tom Colicchio, Bobby Flay, and Gale Gand.

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RSVP for a New York Book Forum Event Featuring Knopf’s Victoria Wilson in Conversation with Jane Friedman

On Wednesday, May 24 from 6 PM to 8 PM ET, join New York Book Forum in-person for a major cultural evening — A Story of Evolution: On Writing, Editing, Publishing, and Breaking the Glass of Expectations featuring Jane Friedman and Victoria Wilson. JANE FRIEDMAN transformed a major company, and started a new venture that revolutionized digital publishing. Vicky Wilson, VP & Executive Editor at Alfred A. Knopf is an acclaimed editor and publisher, and has written a major cultural biography, with the concluding volume now in progress.

We’ll hear these leading voices in American publishing discuss their experience, expertise, adventures, and vision of what lies ahead in books, business, and life. Light refreshments will be served. Limited space is available! RSVP is required.

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Penguin Random House Partners with Save the Children for Multi-Year Global Book Donation Effort

In the face of educational disruptions following the pandemic and the mounting book banning crisis, Penguin Random House has announced an unprecedented book donation to long-standing partner Save the Children to help spread the joy of reading to kids everywhere. The historic donation is the largest global book donation in Save the Children’s history and will provide more than one million books to children across the globe over three years. Continue reading →

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