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March 25, 2011
By Sarah Weinman

Derry Wilkins has joined Sourcebooks as publicity manager, children’s & YA. Previously she managed children’s publicity for Sterling.

Nancy Fish has joined Cleis Press/Viva Editions as marketing and publicity manager. Previously she was a marketing manager for the Harvard Bookstore and assistant executive director of NEIBA.

The Romance Writers of America announced their RITA Award finalists, with the winners to be named on July in New York at their annual convention. Full list

Douglas & MacIntyre Publishers will relocate its Toronto office on March 28 to 130 Spadina Avenue, Suite 405, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5V 2L4. Phone numbers and email addresses remain the same.

Bestselling and critically acclaimed children’s fantasy and science fiction writer Diana Wynne Jones, 76, died Friday night from complications of lung cancer.
Guardian obit

Joe Bageant, journalist and author of Deer Hunting with Jesus and Rainbow Pie, died March 26 after a four-month struggle with cancer. He was 64
Obit

F+W Media announced that on Wednesday, March 30, the company will donate 50% of the company’s eCommerce store profits to the Red Cross/Japan Fund for a 24-hour period. Release 

Ingram Content Group will open a new Lightning Source POD book manufacturing operation in Melbourne, Australia, this June.

We were led astray last week by an imprecise account of Seven Stories‘ distribution change. They will switch to Random House Publisher Services as of June 1;

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