Jonathan Merkh joins Howard Books as publisher today, reporting to Mark Gompertz. Merkh spent a brief stint at the William Morris Agency after serving as an executive at Guideposts and publisher of the Nelson Books division at Thomas Nelson. Merkh will oversee all editorial and marketing and the senior management team, including John Howard (who had held the publisher title), will report to him. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Alexandra Cooper has been promoted to senior editor. Sarah Weinman discovers that bestselling author of DOG ON IT “Spencer Quinn” is actually Cape Cod novelist Peter Abrahams. Publishing contract specialist and […]