June 2011
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Your next favorite book →
It’s high summer and you’re about to hit the road - or maybe curl up at home next to an air conditioner. Let us recommend the perfect book to keep you company. Check out http://hmhbooks.tumblr.com/tagged/recs all week to find something for you!
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Meet Us Monday: Teresa Kravtin
It’s a new week and that means another chance to meet a member of the HMH team! We’re heading down south to get to know Sales Representative Teresa Kravtin.
What do you do here at HMH?
Well, I’m not exactly HERE at HMH. I am a commission sales representative with Southern Territory Associates and I cover a portion of the south for HMH. My territory includes parts of Georgia,...
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Meet Us Monday: Bruce Nichols
Every week we like to share a glimpse into life at HMH with our staff survey. Today Bruce Nichols, V.P., Publisher, Adult and Reference, shares his perspective.
What do you do here at HMH?
I am the Publisher for the Adult and Reference group in the Trade Division.
What is your favorite HMH book of all time?
Ooh, tough question, and it’s like asking a parent to name a favorite child. But if...
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Coverage of the DC launch party for our new... →
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“Reitman's book delivers all it promises, and it... →
Tony Ortega, the Editor-in-Chief at the Village Voice on our new nonfiction INSIDE SCIENTOLOGY
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Fernando French: Drumroll, please →
This is so exciting!!!
fernandofrench:
Drumroll, please
The votes are in! The novel we will be reading and discussing for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr is…
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer.
It won by a landslide, garnering almost half of the total votes. Here are the next steps:
Pick up a copy of the novel. It should be available at your local bookstore or...
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Fernando French: The Short List →
Yahoo!
fernandofrench:
The arduous task of whittling 131 titles down to five is finally complete. Here are the nominees for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr: The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
Voting will end on Monday, June...
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Forbes: The 10 Most Powerful Women Authors →
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Our Favorites…
Toni Morrison: Nobel and Pulitzer-Prize winning author. Novelist, editor and professor Toni Morrison is best-known for such works as The Bluest Eye, Song of Solomon, and Beloved (which was adapted into a film). Morrison’s Nobel and Pulitzer prize-winning work shakes readers to their cores by taking an unflinching and often haunting look at the black experience in...
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Huffington Post considers WE THE ANIMALS new and... →
…and so do we!
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Fernando French: The Short List →
Winter’s Tale AND Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close? However can we choose?
fernandofrench:
The Short List
The arduous task of whittling 131 titles down to five is finally complete. Here are the nominees for the first-ever One Book, One Tumblr:
The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing
The Death of a Beekeeper by Lars Gustafsson
Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin
White Teeth by Zadie...
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The Quest for Anna Klein Sweepstakes
Thomas H. Cook’s latest mystery THE QUEST FOR ANNA KLEIN comes out June 21, 2011 - enter now for your chance to win a copy! Five winners will be chosen in a random drawing.
To enter, “like” the HMH Mysteries Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/hmhmysteries
Then fill out our entry form here:
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To suggest that RAGE effectively glamorizes self-injury is both insulting and...
– Jackie Morse Kessler, author of HUNGER and RAGE, responding to the Wall Street Journal article “Darkness Too Visible” on her blog
http://jackiemorsekessler.com/blog/2011/06/05/making-the-darkness-visible/
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Nearly half of all adults younger than 40 have at... →
In the HMH Marketing department, I can tell you that 1 in 4 young adults are tattooed - although more accurately, it’s 25% tattoed, 50% non-tattoed, and 25% constantly debating whether to go for it or not (yours truly).
newsweek:
nprfreshair:
Quick survey of staff here: no one appears to have a tattoo. Do you?
Dammit. We’re a bad cliche.
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How To Write a Bestseller: Umberto Eco's Secrets →
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Bruce Machart's THE WAKE OF FORGIVENESS wins... →
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Eamon Dolan, a prominent editor at the Penguin Press who lost one of his titles...
– “Eamon Dolan to Leave Penguin Press“ By JULIE BOSMAN
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