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Publishers Marketplace Super Search rights postings job board report a deal site guide help Wednesday, April 10, 2019 Deal News Yesterday we posted 68 new deals at Publishers Marketplace (and 13 more so far today), among them: Former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley's book about her life and leadership, talking candidly about her tenure as U.N. Ambassador and the consequential actions, decisions, confrontations, and behind-the-scenes negotiations that shaped national and world events; David Giffels's BARNSTORMING OHIO: TO UNDERSTAND AMERICA, a journey across Ohio in the year leading to the 2020 election, to reveal how the political and social transformation of this bellwether state reflects the transformation of the United States; Deadline and Forbes writers Dade Hayes and Dawn Chmielewski's BINGE TIMES: INSIDE THE HIGH-STAKES SCRAMBLE (BY DISNEY, APPLE, AMAZON AND EVERYONE ELSE) TO CATCH NETFLIX, a year in the life of the transformation and creative destruction of television; David Hopen's THE ORCHARD, pitched as an Orthodox Jewish take on THE SECRET HISTORY, about a teenager who moves from an ultra-religious Brooklyn upbringing to a glitzy Florida yeshiva school. 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At McGraw-Hill, Donya Dickerson has been promoted to associate publisher of the business group, and Amy Li has been promoted to associate editor of the business group. Kate Meltzer has joined Roaring Brook Press as editor. She was formerly an editor at Penguin Children's. Kirk Benshoff has joined First Second Books as art director. Previously, he was art director at Scholastic. Mary Altman has been promoted to senior editor, Sourcebooks Casablanca. Mary Duke has joined Chronicle Books as a marketing manager for children's. Previously, she was marketing associate at Harper One. Pat Conte has joined Bear Manor Media as foreign rights agent. Conte was formerly publisher for Kaplan Early Learning Company. In the UK, Jake Lingwood's new imprint for Octopus will be called Monoray. Though you won't find it in the dictionary, "For me, Monoray sums up the simplicity and clarity of message that you get from all the best publishing. Books that know exactly what they are. There is a clear, straight-ahead direction about Monoray which we love – and hopefully, like the books, it’s distinctive and fresh too. Plus, I definitely think it sounds cool."It launches in July with John Carney's Operation Jihadi Bride: The Deadly Mission to Save Young Women from ISIS. Speaking of new words and coinages, do you remember the position formerly known as "book buyer"? The Amazon Books retail store is looking for something they call a "nonfiction curator" to select the books carried in their stores, and help merchandise them. Theater R.J. Palacio's novel Wonder, already adapted into a successful film, will become a Broadway play. Tony award-winning Hamilton producer Jill Furman will serve as lead producer. Distribution Hachette UK formally opened their new book distribution facility, the Hely Hutchinson Centre (named for Tim Hely Hutchinson, who retired as CEO of Hachette UK in 2017). The new center "represents a substantial investment program by Hachette's parent company, Hachette Livre, including the replacement of Hachette's Vista warehouse management and sales order processing systems, with modern, market-leading software solutions from suppliers including SAP and JDA." Octopus moved in to the facility last August and all Hachette UK and distributed publishers will distributed from the new site by the end of the second quarter of 2019. Hachette UK David Shelley notes in part, "The Hely Hutchinson Centre is a sign of Hachette's present and future commitment to great service and of our ambition to become an even bigger player in print distribution than we already are.... Our ambition is to deliver one in every two books sold in the UK." Awards: Booker International Shortlist, and More The Booker International announced its shortlist, with last year's winner Olga Tokarczuk nominated again. Many of the titles are not published in the US yet, though Riverhead publishes two of the nominated authors. The full list: Celestial Bodies, by Jokha Alharthi (Sandstone Press) The Years, by Annie Ernaux (Seven Stories/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Pine Islands, by Marion Poschmann (Serpent's Tail) Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Olga Tokarczuk (forthcoming from Riverhead/Fitzcarraldo Editions) The Shape Of The Ruins, by Juan Gabriel Vásquez (Riverhead/MacLehose Press) The Remainder, by Alia Trabucco Zerán (forthcoming from Coffee House Press/And Other Stories) Barnes & Noble's April 2019 National Book Club Selection is Martha Hall Kelly's Lost Roses. 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Among the latest: Marketing Manager  [Full Time] HarperCollins (San Francisco, CA) Production Editor, Non-Fiction  [Full Time] Penguin Random House LLC (New York, NY) Senior Managing Editor  [Full Time] Macmillan Children's Publishing Group (New York, NY) Production Associate  [Full Time] Hachette Book Group (New York, NY) Production Editor-Boulder, CO  [Full Time] Hachette Book Group (Boulder, CO) Publishersmarketplace.com/jobs Employers: Register here to post Get the widget   Super Search Find deals, contacts, Lunch posts, Automat headlines, member profiles, and more at Publishers Marketplace:   Reader Services To advertise in Publishers Lunch and on PublishersMarketplace.com, e-mail us for info at ads@publishersmarketplace.com. 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