News: Macmillan

Palgrave Macmillan announces a new imprint: Palgrave Pivot. 

Learn more about the exciting initiative here.

Esi Edugyan, author of the upcoming Picador Paperback Original Half-Blood Blues, wins the illustrious literary prize and $50,000. More…

We are thrilled to announce two FSG poets have been named finalists for this year's National Book Award: Carl Phillips for Double Shadow and Yusef Komunyakaa for The Chameleon Couch. Phillps has been named a finalist three times before; Komunyakaa won the Pulitzer Prize in 1994. You can read the full list of finalists here. More…

Tor.com is pleased to announce “Independent Bookseller Picks”, celebrating the best independent bookstores and their recommended reading list of great genre fiction. More…

In an effort to educate and encourage math and science education Tor/Forge Books, an imprint of Tom Doherty Associates, LLC, and NASA have embarked on a collaboration to publish a series of science based, commercial fiction books, referred to as “NASA inspired Works of Fiction” around concepts pertinent to the current and future work of NASA. More…

The Daily Reader is a new blog and social media initiative run by Macmillan. More…

NEW YORK, June 9, 2011 –Mark K. Shriver will pen a book about his late father Robert Sargent “Sarge” Shriver Jr., to be published next spring by Henry Holt and Company, it was announced today by Stephen Rubin, Holt’s president and publisher.

At this year’s Audio Publishers Assocation event honoring the best in the audiobook industry, Macmillan Audio took home awards for In a Heartbeat and Nanny McPhee Returns. More…

Farrar, Straus and Giroux and the Harvard Alumni Association are thrilled to announce the re-launch of “Justice with Michael Sandel.” Sandel’s book Justice: What’s the Right Thing to Do?, was a New York Times best-seller on both the hardcover and paperback lists. Now, Justice and its companion website have become global phenomena.

The new site offers free access to the first Harvard course made available online and on public television.  Watch the entire 12-part series as it appeared on PBS, the BBC, and around the world.  Join Sandel and his students in the Harvard classroom as they ponder the right thing to do—in politics and in our everyday lives. More…

The audiobook edition of Rob Lowe's memoir Stories I Only Tell My Friends will be narrated by the actor himself. More…

Congratulations to Seamus Heaney, who has won the Irish Times Poetry Award for Human Chain (2010). Heaney also won the award in 2006 for District and Circle, his previous collection. You can read the full article here, and read selections from Human Chain on Scribd.

The Audio Publishers Association has announced nominations for the 2011 Audies competition, recognizing the best in the audiobook world, and six Macmillan Audio titles were selected. More…