Deanna Brown Joins Byliner as President
The two-year-old company has published more than 30 bestsellers, including the first e-short to reach No. 1 on the New York Times E-book Best Seller List, Elizabeth Kaye’sLifeboat No. 8. Last month, Byliner authors were honored with two of journalism’s most prestigious prizes: New York Times reporter John Branch was awarded the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for Snow Fall, which was released simultaneously in expanded form as the first in a series of New York Times / Byliner Originals. And Brian Mockenhaupt won the Michael Kelly Award for his Byliner Original The Living and the Dead, the tragic, deeply moving story of three close friends in a remote Marine encampment in Afghanistan. The Living and the Dead was also named a finalist for the 2013 National Magazine Award in Feature Writing, and novelist Jennifer Haigh’s Byliner Original The Boy Vanishes was chosen as a finalist for the National Magazine Award in Fiction.