• Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Login
  • Register

Publishers Lunch

The Publishing Industry's Daily Essential Read

  • Publishers Marketplace
  • Site Guide
  • Help

People, Etc.

September 9, 2020
By Erin Somers

At Penguin Random House UK, Cornerstone managing director Susan Sandon and Vintage UK managing director Richard Cable (who are married) will both leave the company at the end of the year.

Penguin General publisher Venetia Butterfield will take over at Cornerstone and managing director of the audiences and audio division Hannah Telfer will lead Vintage UK, starting next January.

Brand and communications director Rebecca Sinclair will lead the audiences division, and group sales director Rob Waddington will add responsibility as managing director of audio.

Madhulika Sikka will join Crown on October 12 as vice president and executive editor, acquiring nonfiction across all categories and reporting to Crown and Currency editor-in-chief Gillian Blake. Sikka is a journalist who has held roles at NPR, ABC News, The Washington Post, PBS, and Mic.

Darlene Chan has joined the Linda Chester Literary Agency as agent. She previously ran the book pr firm Darlene Chan PR.

Stefanie Rossitto joins The Tobias Literary Agency as literary agent and foreign rights manager, where she will rep historical fiction, romance, and handle foreign translation rights. Most recently she was a freelance reader for Maria B. Campbell Associates.

Veronica Park has been promoted to agent at Fuse Literary.

Nicole Tourtelot has joined The Gernert Company as senior agent, working out of their Los Angeles office. Most recently she was an agent at DeFiore and Company.

Corporate
WH Smith announced the appointment of Nicky Dulieu as a non-executive director. She replaces Suzanne Baxter, who will retire following the Annual General meeting in January 2021.

Filed Under: Free, Personnel

sidebar

Primary Free Sidebar

Login


Forgot password
Quick Pass users click here to log in
Get Full Access
The publishing industry's essential daily read

Each Publishers Lunch Deluxe subscription includes full access to our searchable multi-year archive of industry news, a nightly email reporting 10 to 50 deal transactions, and our database of industry contacts, scripts, and posting privileges.

Learn More

RSS Automat

  • Solid State Books Workers Announce Plans to Unionize March 28, 2023 Union website
  • Following Sale, America's Test Kitchen Lays Off 23 Employees, Including All of ATK Kids Staff March 28, 2023 Union instagram post
  • Acquire and Fire: Hachette UK In Consultations to Eliminate About Half the Staff of Welbeck March 28, 2023 Bookseller
  • Jefferson, de Kretser Win Folio Prizes March 27, 2023 Prize announcement
  • Harper UK Edits Agatha Christie Novels to Remove "Offensive" Language March 27, 2023 The Guardian
  • NYU Launches Five-Day "Advanced Publishing Institute" Program for January 2024 March 25, 2023 NYU site
  • Hachette UK to Publish "Spare Us!" Parody on April 6 March 23, 2023 Publisher site
  • Netflix to Stream Series Based on Ramit Sethi's Book, "How to Get Rich" March 23, 2023 THR
  • James Patterson Signs First-Look Development Deal with Skydance Television March 22, 2023 Deadline
  • "I find it kind of stunning that the [Internet] Archive would put its entire free service at risk over such an obviously wrong stand" March 21, 2023 Dan Kennedy / Media Nation
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.