• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People

March 30, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Kate Travers will join Workman as director, digital business development starting April 11th, reporting to Andrea Fleck-Nisbet. In this role she will oversee our web properties and services, develop and maintain Workman’s online communities, and help to plan Workman’s overall digital media strategy. She was most recently at F+W Media, where she was responsible for executing digital strategy across 23 e-commerce and 18 community websites.

Brianne Halverson will join the It Books and Harper Design marketing department as associate director of marketing beginning April 9. She was most recently director of publicity for William Morrow.

Elizabeth Hanslik Psaltis has been promoted to marketing director for Perigee Books/HPBooks/PHP. She retains her role as advertising and promotion director for Berkley, NAL, Riverhead Trade Paperbacks and The Penguin Press.

Gabrielle Gantz will join Picador as senior publicist on April 9. She was most recently a publicist at Viking/Penguin.

Michael Connelly was made a Knight of Arts and Letters (Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres) by France’s Ministry of Culture and Communications.

Author Harry Crews, 76, who taught for many years at the University of Florida, Gainseville, died from complications of neuropathy on Wednesday. The NYT says his “novels out-Gothic Southern Gothic by conjuring a world of hard-drinking, punch-throwing, snake-oil-selling characters whose physical, mental, social and sexual deviations render them somehow entirely normal and eminently sympathetic.”

The International Prize for Arabic Fiction went to Lebanese author Rabee Jaber for THE DRUZE OF BELGRADE.

Filed Under: Awards, Free, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • NYU Launches Five-Day "Advanced Publishing Institute" Program for January 2024 March 25, 2023 NYU site
  • Hachette UK to Publish "Spare Us!" Parody on April 6 March 23, 2023 Publisher site
  • Netflix to Stream Series Based on Ramit Sethi's Book, "How to Get Rich" March 23, 2023 THR
  • James Patterson Signs First-Look Development Deal with Skydance Television March 22, 2023 Deadline
  • "I find it kind of stunning that the [Internet] Archive would put its entire free service at risk over such an obviously wrong stand" March 21, 2023 Dan Kennedy / Media Nation
  • Douglas Stuart's Young Mungo Is Being Adapated Into a TV Series by A24 March 21, 2023 Deadline
  • Reid Hoffman Posts a Free eBook About His Experiences with ChaptGPT-4 March 16, 2023 Free PDF
  • Siri Hustvedt Reveals that Paul Auster Is Receiving Cancer Treatment at Sloan Kettering March 14, 2023 Instagram post
  • John Jakes Dies at 90 March 14, 2023 NYT
  • Barnes & Noble Children's Awards Shortlists March 13, 2023 BN
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.