• 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.

February 25, 2021
By Erin Somers

At Grand Central, Wes Miller has been promoted to executive editor, and Seema Mahanian to senior editor, Rachael Kelly and Carmel Shaka each become assistant editor, and Kirsiah McNamara becomes assistant editor and digital & paperback coordinator. Albert Tang becomes vice president, creative director. Andy Dodds has been promoted to publicity director and Kamrun Nesa to senior publicist.  Joseph Benincase becomes assistant director, marketing and Morgan Swift associate marketing manager. At Forever, Estelle Hallick has been promoted to associate director, marketing & publicity, and Sam Brody to assistant editor.

Robert Messenger will join Simon & Schuster as senior editor, starting March 1, where he will “acquire books with an emphasis on conservative points of view that deepen and provide context for our political and cultural debates.” He was most recently executive editor of the Weekly Standard.

At Public Affairs, Anupama Roy-Chaudhury has been promoted to assistant editor, and Miguel Cervantes to marketing manager.

Peter Steinberg has joined Fletcher & Company as literary agent. He was most recently at YRG Partners and Foundry. (All three Foundry agents who initially joined YRG Partners in September have now moved to other agencies.)

Publications
Astra Publishing House is launching an international literary magazine called Astra Quarterly “by the end of 2021” with the website planned for this fall. Nadja Spiegelman will lead the magazine as editor in chief; she was previously online editor of the Paris Review. Spiegelman said, “There is an incredible wealth of new literature being written around the world, but to cut through the noise, it must be championed and promoted. I am delighted to join the Astra team in its deep desire to uphold voices across borders. The new generation of readers—from New York to Lagos, Paris to Shanghai, Mexico City to Berlin—has more in common with one another than ever before.”

Forthcoming
Paul McCartney‘s THE LYRICS, “a self-portrait in 154 songs,” edited and introduced by Paul Muldoon, will be published by Liveright on November 2.

Awards
The Columbia Graduate School of Journalism and the Nieman Foundation have named the shortlists for the 2021 J. Anthony Lukas Prizes. Winners will be announced on March 24.

The Authors Guild Foundation has partnered with the new Carol Shields Prize for Fiction to help administer the prize’s charitable efforts in the US — which will include grants and mentorships, in service f their goal to “acknowledge, celebrate, and support a broad-range of women writers, including those who are marginalized or under-represented.”

Distribution
World Book will use Baker & Taylor Publisher Services for warehousing and fulfillment as of March 1.

Comic book and graphic novel publisher Artists Writers & Artisans Studios will be distributed by Simon & Schuster starting March 1.

Filed Under: Awards, Free, New Releases/Forthcoming, 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

  • Reid Hoffman Posts a Free eBook About His Experiences with ChaptGPT-4 March 16, 2023 Free PDF
  • Siri Hustvedt Reveals that Paul Auster Is Receiving Cancer Treatment at Sloan Kettering March 14, 2023 Instagram post
  • John Jakes Dies at 90 March 14, 2023 NYT
  • Barnes & Noble Children's Awards Shortlists March 13, 2023 BN
  • Greenlight to Close Flatbush Store Due to Low Sales: "We Have to Focus on What's Working" March 13, 2023 Owner video
  • Nobel Winner Kenzaburo Oe Dies at 88 March 13, 2023 Reuters
  • Celebrities Did Not Give Permission to Have Their Old Letters Exploited in New Trump Book March 10, 2023 Newsweek
  • Copperfield's Petaluma Booksellers Unionize March 10, 2023 Union Twitter
  • Barnes & Noble In Corte Madera, CA to Close March 12 After 17 Years As Lease Is Not Renewed March 7, 2023 Local site/Instagram
  • Laurie Halse Anderson Wins the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award March 7, 2023 The Bookseller
© 2023 Publishers Lunch. All Rights Reserved.