At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Susan Canavan has been promoted to executive editor in the trade & reference division. Canavan has been at Houghton for 9 years. Former agent at Dupree/Miller and editor at Simon Spotlight Entertainment Michael Broussard has joined iSB New Media as executive vice president. Based in LA, the company calls itself a “multi-media talent platform” that integrates speaking (the parent company’s properties include the International Speakers Bureau), books, licensed products, programming, distribution, and web-centered marketing. Translated, that includes “literary representation of several major personalities.”
