Longtime Barnes & Noble employee Brenda Marsh has left her position as vp, author relations, Publishing Trends reports. She can be reached at brendasmarsh@gmail.com. Founder of Hanser Berlin Elisabeth Ruge will leave the company at the end of 2013 for what she characterized as "personal reasons." Ruge, who founded the imprint at…
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Brendan Cahill has returned to traditional publishing, joining Random House, Inc. as vp, corporate projects. The company says he "will be working with departments across the company on a variety of internal and externally-directed endeavors, beginning with digital-partnership development opportunities." He was ceo at NatureShare/Green Mountain Digital and publisher at…
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At Bloomsbury, Rachel Mannheimer has been promoted to editor, and Melanie Sankel has gone from associate director of sales for Fairchild Books to director, adoption sales at Bloomsbury Academic. After Skyhorse and Start Publishing's intended joint acquisition of Night Shade Books' assets ignited public controversy over the original terms of sale…
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At Workman Publishing, Vaughn Andrews will join the company as creative director for the Workman imprint on April 22. Most recently a freelance designer, he worked for 26 years at Harcourt, including serving as executive art director and creative director. Raquel Jaramillo, who has been acting creative director for two…
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Laney Katz Becker has joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin as an agent. Previously she was at Markson Thoma. At Ten Speed Press, Kelly Snowden has been promoted to marketing and publicity manager. UK-based And Other Stories is established a New York presence, run by Sarah Russo of Sara Russo Public Relations…
Skyhorse to Move Distribution from Norton to Perseus
Skyhorse Publishing is moving domestic sales and distribution to Perseus Distribution. Perseus will take over distributing their ebooks on August 1, and will work on the print books as of January 1, 2014. Skyhorse has been distributed by Norton since the beginning of 2008, after first using Sterling when they started…
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Andrew Duncan will join Grand Central on March 25 as associate director, online marketing, reporting to Emi Battaglia. Duncan was most recently senior marketing manager at Viking. Megan Perritt joins Crown as senior publicist. She was previously a publicist at F&W Media. In addition, Rebecca Marsh has been named publicist,…
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Sony Pictures longtime New York-based director of development Mark James is leaving the company to start his own book-to-film scouting company, James Literary Consulting, a book-to-film scouting company. Deadline.com says his two initial clients will be Sony subsidiary Columbia Pictures and the Michaels-Goldwyn production company (a partnership between Lorne Michaels…
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Jeffrey Yamaguchi has joined Abrams in the newly created position of director of digital marketing. Previously he was director of digital marketing for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. In addition, there have been several recent promotions in the marketing department. Veronica Wasserman has been promoted to associate director, marketing operations,…
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