Nancy Mercado will join Dial as associate publisher and editorial director starting April 9, reporting to Lauri Hornik. She was previously editorial director at Scholastic. Brian Perrin has been promoted to vice president, marketing for Harper Business and Harper Wave. Jaime Green will serve as romance columnist for the New York Times Book Review, writing a quarterly column, which will debut in their June Summer Reading issue. Tina Jordan, the editor overseeing the column, says in the announcement, “This is an enormous and rich genre brimming with novels that celebrate women, love, sex and — last but definitely not least […]
Archives for March 2018
Now Tracking: Audio Dealmakers
We’ve made another adjustment to our big catalog of Dealmakers — tracking about 4,400 agents; 2,000 agencies; 11,000 editors; and 9,000 imprints over time on individual web pages of their transactions. We are now cataloging audio rights buyers — both individual editors and their companies — in Dealmakers lists and individual pages. The new feature includes data from the past 12 months, and covers audio rights buyers only, not sellers.
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Tina Pohlman has joined Union Literary as agent. Previously, she was evp and publisher at Open Road. Chris Clemans has joined Janklow & Nesbit as an agent. Previously he was an agent at The Clegg Agency. Hilary Teeman has been promoted to executive editor, Crown and Hogarth. Sarah Janet has been promoted to executive director, marketing analytics at Open Road. Anne Twomey will join Celadon Books as creative director on April 2. She has been vp, creative director at Grand Central. Six American writers were nominated for the Sunday Times Short Story Award in the UK.
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At Crown Publishing Group, Diana Baroni has been promoted to vice president, associate publisher, editorial director, Harmony and Rodale Books, reporting to Aaron Wehner. Crown has also hired a number of former Rodale employees, following its January acquisition of Rodale Books: Gail Gonzales has been appointed vice president, director, publishing strategy, Harmony, Rodale Books, and Clarkson Potter; Dervla Kelly has joined as senior editor, Rodale Books and Ten Speed Press; Brianne Sperber has been named senior marketing manager, Harmony and Rodale Books; and Holly Smith has joined as senior digital marketer. European publisher World Editions, dedicated to publishing English-language translations of literary fiction from around the world, […]
Silber and FitzGerald Lead NBCC Winners
On Thursday night, the National Book Critics Circle presented their 2017 book awards to: Fiction Improvement, by Joan Silber (Counterpoint) General Nonfiction The Evangelicals, by Frances FitzGerald (Simon & Schuster) Autobiography Nine Continents, by Xiaolu Guo (Grove) Biography Prairie Fires, by Caroline Fraser (Metropolitan Books) Criticism You Play The Girl, by Carina Chocano (Mariner) Poetry Whereas, by Layli Long Soldier (Graywolf)
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Tracy Behar‘s new nonfiction imprint will be named Little, Brown Spark. She says in the announcement that the name was chosen “to reflect our mission to publish books that spark ideas, feelings, and change.” As previously announced, launching in fall 2018, the line is focused on health, lifestyle, psychology, and science. Alongside senior editor Marisa Vigilante, Behar is joined by associate editor Ian Straus, and associate director of marketing Jessica Chun. Steven Wallace has joined the University of Georgia Press as director of marketing and sales. Previously he was business development manager at New Leaf Distributing. Awards Shortlists were announced for the UK’s Carnegie and […]