At Touchstone, Kelsey Manning has been promoted to assistant director of marketing and Isabel DaSilva is now marketing coordinator. Sarah Murphy Mannheimer joins lecture agency The Tuesday Agency as a senior agent, in charge of overseeing corporate accounts, recruiting authors, and managing events. She was previously at the Leigh Bureau. At Hachette Book Group USA, Matt Hooban has been promoted to associate director of communications and Becky Llewellyn to communications associate. IDW Publishing chief creative officer and editor-in-chief Chris Ryall told staff he was leaving the company. Scott Gast joined the University of Chicago Press this week as editor for the life sciences. He […]
Archives for March 2018
People, Etc.
At Bloomsbury Children’s, Erica Barmash has been promoted to senior director of marketing; Sarah Shumway moves up to executive editor; Claire Stetzer is now assistant editor; and Anna Bernard was promoted to associate publicist. Mishell Velez has been promoted to senior coordinator at Hachette Audio; Elece Green is now associate producer; and Tommy Harron moves up to producer. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Brooke Borneman has joined as senior marketing manager; she was previously senior marketing manager at Tarcher Perigee. Samantha Trovillion has joined as publicity associate. Johanna Dickson has joined Skyhorse as a senior publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Holt. Associate publisher and executive editor for Zondervan […]
Awards: Windham-Campbell Prizes, PEN/Faulkner Finalists, And More
The Windham-Campbell Prizes announced this year’s winners, who will each receive $165,000 at a ceremony held at Yale University on September 12. The full list features: Fiction: John Keene (US) and Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (Uganda/UK) Nonfiction: Sarah Bakewell (UK) and Olivia Laing (UK) Poetry: Lorna Goodison (Canada/Jamaica) and Cathy Park Hong (US) Drama: Suzan-Lori Parks (US) and Lucas Hnath (US) The finalists for the PEN/Faulkner Award were announced, with the winner to be named on April 4: Sing, Unburied, Sing, by Jesmyn Ward In The Distance, by Hernan Diaz The Dark Dark, by Samantha Hunt The Tower of the Antilles, by Achy Obejas Improvement, by Joan Silber The Lambda […]
Wiley Gains with Publishing Steady
Wiley reported results for their fiscal third quarter, ending January 31, with sales of $456 million (up $20 million, though down 1 percent measured in constant currency), and operating income of $67.4 million (up $16.2 million). For the second quarter in a row, publishing sales were stronger than the recent downward trend: STM and professional publishing sales of $80.8 million were up from $76.9 million a year ago, and education publishing sales of $48.4 million were down slightly, versus $50.3 million a year ago. CEO Brian Napack said in the release: “We continue to see good momentum in the business, […]
People: Karp to Oversee Adult Publishing At Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster Publishing Group president and publisher Jonathan Karp has been promoted to the new position of president and publisher of Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing, reporting to ceo Carolyn Reidy. Karp will have responsibility for all the company’s adult trade publishing, which includes Atria Books, Gallery Books, Scribner, Simon & Schuster, Touchstone and their associated sub-imprints, and he will continue as publisher of the Simon & Schuster trade imprint. (Adams Media continues to report to evp, chief marketing officer Liz Perl, however.) Reidy says in the announcement: “Jon is well suited and more than ready to take on this greater […]
People, Etc.
Jill Schwartzman, vp and executive editor at Dutton, will take on the additional role of editorial director of Plume. Whitney Hu has joined National Book Foundation as director of public programs. She was formerly communications director at the office of New York City Council member Brad Lander. Three former employees of Midas Public Relations — Daniel Freeman and Zekra Rahman (who were associate directors) and Liz Mallett (who was a senior account manager) have formed Colour PR, focusing on publishing related work, as well as entertainment and leisure. Last week, Midas announced that Jason Bartholomew was leaving his position as […]