The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton

But being away from books has only made me realize how much I love working on manuscripts,' said Davis in a statement. “I have enjoyed working with Condé Nast leadership and my team to rebuild the Bon App é tit brand.

'The world of book publishing is better for having Dawn back, and we are thrilled to have her rejoining Simon & Schuster.” “I’ve had the pleasure of knowing Dawn and working with her for decades and have long admired her commitment to her authors and to multicultural publishing, her entrepreneurial spirit and wide-ranging interests, and her collaborative nature,' Karp said in a statement.

Jones, Steve Harvey’s Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man, and Chris Gardner's The Pursuit of Happyness. Prior to her first joining S&S in 2013, Davis was publisher of Amistad, an imprint of HarperCollins, where she edited such books as The Known World by Edward P. In her time at S&S, she acquired and/or edited such books as Jessamine Chan’s The School for Good Mothers, Dawnie Walton’s The Final Revival of Opal & Nev, Ilyon Woo’s Master Slave Husband Wife, and the forthcoming How to Say Babylon by Saifya Sinclair. However, her move marks a return to S&S, which she initially joined in 2013 and where she founded the 37 Ink imprint. With the help of her stylist Virgil, who sees her unusual looks as a canvas for otherworldly drama, and Jimmy, her drummer and lover, who teaches her how to hear and adapt their music, she becomes a bolder, more authoritative presence.Davis moves to S&S from Condé Nast, where since 2020 she has been editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit and Epicurious. She’s never been taught to read music and doesn’t know much about the world she’s entering, but she knows she wanted out of her old life, and that’s all the motivation she needs. Opal is skinny and dark-skinned and, because of alopecia, spent her childhood being taunted by kids who called her baldie. Opal arrives in New York facing the skepticism of the label executive who had hoped Nev would choose her buxom and more conventionally attractive sister, Pearl, as his vocal partner. How wonderful it is to watch Walton build that complexity, starting with Opal’s fraught music industry debut.

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Walton