Radnidge takes on literary at Hachette, Richell Prize winner and more
In industry moves, Vanessa Radnidge is taking on literary at Hachette, with Fiona Hazard to head a newly created lifestyle list, while former Hachette managing editor Brigid Mullane has joined Ultimo Press as commissioning editor.
Aisling Smith has won the 2020 Richell Prize for Emerging Writers for her fiction manuscript ‘Petrichor’. In other awards news, Leading Edge has opened the Indie Book Awards to all Australian independents and Viva La Novella has announced a new regional focus.
Overseas, Bookshop.org made £65,000 on the first day of its UK launch. Also in the UK, audiobook sales are surging, while London Book Fair has been moved to June 2021 and this year’s FutureBook conference is running as a virtual event.
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