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September 8, 2014By Sarah Weinman

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September 8, 2014By Sarah Weinman

Ruth Homberg has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as senior marketing manager. Previously she was digital marketing manager at Egmont UK. In addition, Hayley Gonnason has been named senior publicist, starting September 22. She is currently a publicist at S&S Children’s. Both will work in HMH’s New York office.

At HarperCollins, Austin Tripp has been named national account manager, Amazon, succeeding Diane Jackson, who will retire on October 1 after 24 years with the company. In addition, Christy Johnson joins as national account manager, Amazon. Previously she was sales/marketing/inventory manager at the New Press.

Forbes has released their annual list of guesses at what the top-earning authors made. (Case in point regarding those guesses, their explanatory copy credits John Green with selling “well over 1 million copies” of the The Fault In Our Stars in the US. Indeed, since Pearson made it clear Stars sold over 4 million units in the first six months of 2014, along with 1.45 million units of Green’s backlist, in the US alone.)

James Patterson $90 million
Dan Brown $28 million
Nora Roberts $23 million
Danielle Steel $22 million
Janet Evanovich $20 million
Jeff Kinney $17 million
Veronica Roth $17 million
John Grisham $17 million
Stephen King $17 million
Suzanne Collins $16 million
JK Rowling $14 million
George R.R. Martin $12 million
David Baldacci $11 million
Rick Riordan $10 million
El James $10 million
Gillian Flynn $9 million
John Green $9 million

Filed Under: Authors, Free, Personnel

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