BTW News Briefs

NBCC Honors Winners for 2012 Publishing Year

Last Thursday, the National Book Critics Circle presented its awards for the 2012 publishing year in six categories. The winners are:

• Fiction: Ben Fountain for Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (Ecco)
• Nonfiction: Andrew Solomon for Far From the Tree: Parents, Children, and the Search for Identity (Scribner)
• Biography: Robert Caro for The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Knopf)
• Autobiography:  Leanne Shapton for Swimming Studies (Blue Rider Press)
• Criticism: Marina Warner for Stranger Magic: Charmed States and the Arabian Nights (Belknap Press: Harvard University Press)
• Poetry: D.A. Powell for Useless Landscape, or A Guide for Boys (Graywolf Press)

Also at the ceremony, the Nona Balakian Citation for Excellence in Reviewing was presented to William Deresiewicz and the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award went to Sandra Gilbert and Susan Gubar.

Archipelago Distribution Moves to Random House

Beginning June 1, Archipelago Books, a not-for-profit press promoting cross-cultural exchange, will be distributed to the trade worldwide by Random House Publisher Services (RHPS) through an arrangement with Hanover Publisher Services LLC (HPS). Hanover, which launched in 2010, has also brokered arrangements with RHPS for Steerforth Press, For Beginners Books, Campfire Graphic Novels, and New Europe Books.

HPS clients maintain their editorial independence but rely on HPS staff to manage their sales, marketing, and operational relationship for the book trade with RHPS.

Archipelago Books is currently distributed by Consortium Book Sales & Distribution.

Ingram Adds Harlequin to MyiLibrary® E-Book Platform

Ingram Content Group announced this week that it will add more than 12,000 Harlequin titles to its MyiLibrary e-book platform. The titles will be both frontlist and backlist, nonfiction and fiction titles, and will be from multiple Harlequin imprints.

Using the MyiLibrary platform, library patrons can read content online, or download to a PC, laptop, or digital device.

25th Annual Lambda Literary Award Finalists Announced

The finalists for the Lambda Literary Awards were announced this week by the Lambda Literary Foundation (LLF) in Los Angeles. The awards celebrate achievement in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) writing for books published in 2012. Winners will be announced in 22 categories during a ceremony on June 3, 2013, at The Great Hall at Cooper Union, 7 East Seventh Street, New York City 10003. Tickets are on sale now.

For 2013, 687 books were submitted for consideration from 332 publishers. The list of finalists is available on LLF website.

25th Annual Triangle Awards to Be Presented April 25

The 25th annual Triangle Awards, honoring lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in 2012, will be presented on April 25, 2013, at the Tishman Auditorium of the New School (66 West 12th Street in New York City) at 7:00 p.m. The ceremony is free and open to the public, with a reception to follow. For the list of finalists, visit the Publishing Triangle website.

Also to be honored at the April 25 ceremony are John D’Emilio, the 2013 recipient of the Bill Whitehead Award for Lifetime Achievement, and NEA Director of Literature Ira Silverberg, who will be presented with the Publishing Triangle’s Leadership Award.