Laura Ford will move over to the Ballantine editorial team as Editor, reporting to publisher Libby McGuire. She has been at Random House since 2001, when she began there as an editorial assistant. Ford will continue to edit the books she has acquired for Random House and they will remain on that list. Former Houghton Mifflin publisher Janet Silver is joining Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an agent and literary director, in their Boston office. In the UK, Peter Robinson is formally merging his eponymous literary agency with Rogers, Coleridge & White (which has been handling foreign rights and other functions […]
