Ken Michaels has been named ceo of Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures, taking up the post after the merger of MacmillanScience and Education and Springer Science closes. Michaels wil report to John Sargent in the new position, which includes the US-based higher education publishing that Macmillan retains outright after the merger. (He is currently global chief operating office of MSE.) Ruta Rimas has been promoted to senior editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books. Siena Koncsol has joined Harlequin Teen as publicity manager. Previously she was a publicist at S&S Children’s. Domenica Alioto is being promoted to senior editor for Crown. Jennifer Johnson-Blalock […]
Archives for April 2015
Penguin Random House Launches Unified Consumer Site
Penguin and Random House have come together on the web, launching a newly-designed site at PenguinRandomHouse.com that presents to consumers the combined catalog from across the company. Showing books to readers is the new site’s primary job: “With thousands of new books to choose from every year, it can be overwhelming trying to find a new read. We’ve made it easier than ever to surface books you’ll love through clean design, sophisticated genre pages, and suggestions based on bestsellers, your category preferences and more.” CEO Markus Dohle writes to employees this morning, “PenguinRandomHouse.com is an extension of our service to authors and […]
People
Joe Monti has been promoted to editorial director at Saga Press. Michael Yeon has joined Open Road as svp, marketing, reporting to Rachel Chou. Previously he was vp, marketing at Grooveshark. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Jessica Gilo has been promoted to culinary marketing manager.
Doerr, Kolbert Among Pulitzer Winners
After missing out on the National Book Award, Anthony Doerr was among those book authors winning Pulitzer Prizes on Monday, marking the second year in a row (after Donna Tartt’s THE GOLDFINCH) the Pulitzer went with a commercially successful title as the winner. Doerr told USA Today (from Paris, where he is currently on tour) he “can barely absorb any of it,” speculating that his novel resonates in our “time of overabundance” because “we are compelled by stories that remind us of our blessings, that remind us that not that long ago whole countries were struggling to feed their populations.” Doerr […]
RHCB Doubles Print Run For WHAT PET SHOULD I GET?
Random House Children’s Books has doubled the announced first printing for Dr. Seuss‘s forthcoming posthumous title WHAT PET SHOULD I GET? to 1 million copies to “keep up with demand.” The publisher also released an illustration from the book, scheduled for release on July 28. Distribution Columbia University Press Sales Consortium will provide sales representation for the University of California Press in the US as of July 1, 2015. Ampersand Inc. will represent UC Press in Canada.
LAT Book Prize Winners Include Hustvedt, Luiselli, Rankine, & Hobbs
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced the winners in ten categories on Saturday night. They include: Fiction Siri Hustvedt, The Blazing World (Simon & Schuster) The Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Valeria Luiselli, Faces in the Crowd (Coffee House Press) Current Interest Jeff Hobbs, The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace (Scribner) Poetry Claudia Rankine, Citizen (Graywolf) Other winners include Adam Tooze (History); Elizabeth Kolbert (Science & Technology); Tom Bouman (Mystery/Thriller); Candice Fleming (Young Adult); Andrew Roberts (Biography); and Jaime Hernandez (Graphic Novel). As previously announced, T.C. Boyle won the Robert Kirsch Award and Levar Burton was […]