Archives for May 2014

At St. Martin’s, John Murphy will take the new role of vp, publishing strategy. “He will be involved in author relations, list developments, and in seeking new publishing opportunities and concepts as well as identifying trends in publishing and the media at large.” Most recently divisional vp, director of publicity, Murphy has been at St. Martin’s for over 25 years. Former Penguin Group advising director of corporate communications (and longtime S&S director of publicity before that) Tracey Guest will take over as vp, director of publicity for all of the St. Martin’s Press imprint on June 2. She will report to […]

Karen Dziekonski has joined Penguin Random House Audio as an executive producer (she was executive producer at Harper Audio) and Laurie Hardjowirogo has joined the unit as a designer. At Scholastic Trade, Ellen Duda has joined the company as designer. She was most recently at Sterling. In promotions, Julie Amitie is now executive director of marketing; Beth Noble is associate marketing manager; Emelia Zamani moves up to editorial manager for Chicken House and David Fickling Books; Rachel Hicks is managing editor, trade hardcover/paperback; and Nina Goffi is now senior designer. The Target Book Club pick for June is Graeme Simsion‘s The Rosie Project (first […]

The Crown Publishing Group announced it has made additional changes to its organizational structure that, according to president and publisher Maja Mavjee, will “create an even sharper direction and momentum for each of our publishing areas as we enhance creative collaboration across the Crown Publishing Group while maintaining the diverse category focus that has been a cornerstone of our recent success.” Molly Stern, who as svp, publisher of Crown, Hogarth, and Broadway Books oversees the division’s fiction publishing program, will add narrative-based general interest nonfiction to her portfolio, taking on responsibility for the Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press imprints. […]