Category Archives: Announcements

Announcements

My Path to Penguin Random House: Doubleday’s Thomas Gebremedhin

Thomas Gebremedhin, VP & Executive Editor, Doubleday.

Everyone has unique career stories to tell. In our Igloo series, My Path to Penguin Random House, 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 Thomas Gebremedhin, Vice President & Executive Editor, Doubleday. His career path as a writer, journalist, and book editor, ultimately for PRH imprint Doubleday, has been a fascinating journey. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Olga Tokarczuk’s THE BOOKS OF JACOB Shortlisted for 2022 International Booker Prize

Photo © Lukasz Giza

The six-title shortlist for the 2022 International Booker Prize includes THE BOOKS OF JACOB, written by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Jennifer Croft, and published by Riverhead in the U.S. and Canada. The winner of this year’s award will be announced on May 26. The £50,000 prize is split between author and translator. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Vote for All Ways Black, a 2022 Webby Award Nominee

The Consumer Marketing team is thrilled to announce that “Introducing All Ways Black,” the video that launched the paradigm-shifting platform last May, is a Webby Award nominee for Video – Diversity & Inclusion. The Webby is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet and presents two honors in every category – The Webby Award and The Webby People’s Voice Awards. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Celebrate Earth With Brightly Storytime LIVE on Saturday, April 9

Consumer Marketing is delighted to invite you and the budding readers in your life to the latest installment of the Brightly Storytime LIVE series: Our Wild & Wonderful Earth! Join us on Saturday, April 9, at 1:00 pm (ET), for one hour of author read-alouds — plus a special interactive segment — focused on teaching everyone how to love and care for our shared world. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Join GIRLS WHO GREEN THE WORLD Author Diana Kapp for Fashion Revolution Clothing Swap

Diana Kapp, author of GIRLS WHO GREEN THE WORLD: Thirty-Four Rebel Women Out to Save Our Planet (Delacorte Press), will be hosting a clothing swap at Glascow Caledonian New York College on Saturday, April 9, in partnership with Fashion Revolution, a not-for-profit global movement working for bringing sustainability to the fashion industry. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Friday Reads: Libraries and Librarians!

Do you love your library? Did you know it’s National Library Week? National Library Week, an initiative of the American Library Association, runs from April 3 through 9. This year’s theme is “Connect with Your Library.” Running with that theme, we invite you to not only connect with your library, but also with the following favorite books that feature libraries and librarians:

Click here for more resources and to read a message from Molly Shannon, Honorary Co-Chair of ALA’s National Library Week Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Tiya Miles Co-Winner 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Nonfiction

Tiya Miles, Photo © Kimberly P. Mitchell/USA TODAY

ALL THAT SHE CARRIED by Tiya Miles, one of the most honored nonfiction titles published last year, has received another major recognition. Subtitled The Journey of Ashley’s Sack, a Black Family Keepsake, the Random House publication has been voted the Nonfiction co -winner of the 2022 Anisfield-Wolf Awards,, sponsored by the Cleveland Foundation. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Actor/Producer Omar Epps to Publish Afro-Futurist YA Series With RHCB

Omar Epps, photo credit Collin Stark

Actor and producer Omar Epps (This Is Us, House, Juice, Shooter) will publish his debut novel, NUBIA: THE AWAKENING, with Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, it was announced by Beverly Horowitz, Senior VP & Publisher. The book will be the first in a young adult series coauthored with Clarence Haynes about three teens, the children of refugees from a fallen African utopia, who develop powers they must use to navigate a climate-ravaged New York City. Horowitz and Krista Marino, VP & Senior Executive Editor, acquired world rights for the series from Todd Shuster and Erica Bauman at Aevitas Creative Management. Marino will edit the series. NUBIA: THE AWAKENING is scheduled to release on November 8, 2022. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

Three New DRAGON TATTOO Thrillers, a New Trilogy by Karin Smirnoff, Coming From Knopf

Karin Smirnof (c) Johan Gunséus.jpg

Alfred A. Knopf will publish the next three DRAGON TATTOO thrillers as a new trilogy written by Swedish bestselling author Karin Smirnoff. The announcement was made by Knopf EVP and Publisher, Reagan Arthur. Executive Editor Diana Miller acquired US rights from Quercus Books and Magdalena Hedlund at the Hedlund Agency, Stockholm, who is acting on behalf of the Stieg Larsson estate. For the first time, the series, which has sold more than 100 million copies worldwide, will be written and translated by a woman. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement

Announcements

LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, Our Spring Title Wave Pick, Now GMA Book Club April Selection

Bonnie Garmus’ LESSONS IN CHEMISTRY, our Spring ’22 Title Wave Pick, has now been named Good Morning America’s April GMA Book Club Selection, it was announced by ABC-TV’s Deborah Roberts. This represents the latest acknowledgement of the ever-growing popularity of this book, which was published by Doubleday on Tuesday, April 5, and is our Igloo Book Buzz title for this week. Continue reading →

topics

Press releases

announcement