• 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.

October 16, 2020
By Erin Somers

Paige Allen has joined Ingram Spark as director. She was most recently coo of the Horton Group, a web design and digital marketing agency in Nashville.

Heather Drucker has been promoted to senior director of publicity for Harper Perennial and the Harper Paperbacks group. She will continue to work on Harper and Harper Business titles, as well.

At Simon & Schuster, Amanda Mulholland, Paige Lytle, and Caroline Pallotta have each been promoted to managing editor. Annie Craig becomes associate managing editor.

Katie Corcoran Lytle has been promoted to associate director of development at Adams Media.

Kalen R. Landow has joined Microcosm Publishing as sales director. She was previously an account manager at National Book Network.

Sophie Stabile was appointed group chief financial officer of Lagardere, as “part of the ongoing strengthening of its management structure.” She replaces Gérard Adsuar, and will also sit on the management board.

Publisher and writer Tom Maschler, 87, died Thursday in France. He was chairman of Jonathan Cape until it was sold to Random House UK in 1988. Currently Cape publishing director Michal Shavit said: “Tom Maschler was the King of British Publishing. A genius, a maverick, he published some of the greatest writers of the last century. His influence and his brilliance will be felt in British culture for decades if not centuries to come.”

Forthcoming
The University of California Press has announced — and moved up publication to March 2021 of — a book from the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg that was already in production when she died in September. Justice, Justice Thou Shalt Pursue: A Life’s Work Fighting for a More Perfect Union, was written in collaboration with Berkeley law professor and former Ginsburg clerk Amanda Tyler.

Distribution
Kingston Imperial will be sold and distributed worldwide by Penguin Random House Publisher Services starting May 2021.

Election Day
The Experiment is offering employees 2 hours of paid time off to vote and more if warranted by long lines or other circumstances. Employees who elect to volunteer as poll workers will receive a paid day off.

Filed Under: Distribution, 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

  • Jordan Peterson Suspended on Twitter for "Hateful Conduct" In Comment About Elliot Page July 1, 2022 NY Post
  • Rushdie Will Move From Random House to Knopf for Next Novel, in 2023 June 30, 2022 Bookseller
  • Macmillan Cyber Attack Gets National Coverage; Retailers Don't Mind, But It Still Hurts Authors and the Company June 30, 2022 WSJ
  • Wattpad Is Buying Exclusivity to Some of their Most Popular Authors and Stories with Stipends of Up to $25,000 June 30, 2022 Press Release
  • Supreme Court Declines to Review or Revise Landmark NYT v. Sullivan Libel Standard, Despite Clarence Thomas's Objection June 27, 2022 CNN
  • So Far, Books by Trump Aides Are Mostly...Losers June 23, 2022 Politico
  • Macmillan Nigeria Publisher Charged With Book Fraud June 21, 2022 The Herald
  • All The Exiting Agents Seem to Think ICM's Sale to CAA Will Get Approved Shortly by DOJ June 17, 2022 Deadline
  • Spotify Closes Findaway Acquisition: "Their technology will help propel Spotify into the rapidly growing audiobooks industry" June 17, 2022 Press Release
  • Australian Author John Hughes "Unintentionally" Plagiarized The Great Gatsby And Other Famous Works In His New Novel June 15, 2022 The Guardian
© 2022 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.