Shelley Husband has joined the Association of American Publishers as senior vice president, government affairs and special projects. Most recently she was staff director and general counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary from 2013 to 2019. At Hachette Livre, Nathalie Houël has been promoted to group chief financial officer. Arnaud Robert becomes group secretary general, responsible for all legal matters, compliance, insurance and institutional relations. Juliane Chevallier moves up to internal audit and internal control director. All three will report to deputy ceo Fabrice Bakhouche. Kevin Lopez becomes group chief controller, reporting to Houël. Marian Brown has been promoted […]
Archives for April 2021
People, Etc.
At McClelland & Stewart, Anita Chong has been promoted to the new role of executive editor. Joe Lee has been promoted to associate editor. Emma Holmes has joined Chronicle Books as head of brand, Ridley’s Games. She was previously at Wild + Wolf. Distribution Peachtree Publishing will move their sales and distribution to Penguin Random House Publisher Services a year from now, starting May 1, 2022. PRH already distributes Holiday House and Pixel+Ink, which like Peachtree are owned by Trustbridge. Peachtree current handles their own sales and distribution. Finance Primarily on the strength of the expected proceeds from the $349 […]
People, Etc.
Kathryn Deaton has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Macmillan Children’s. Miranda Paul has been promoted to agent at Erin Murphy Literary Agency. At Westwood Creative Artists, Bridgette Kam is moving from the rights department to become a literary associate, working with Jackie Kaiser and Hilary McMahon. Caroline Vassallo has been promoted to international rights associate and film/tv associate. Briar Jones has joined the company as office manager. Awards PEN America announced its 2021 award winners in a ceremony on Thursday evening. Ross Gay’s Be Holding won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Asako Serizawa‘s Inheritors was awarded the PEN […]
Bologna Book Fair Cancels Live Event
As everyone keeps saying, until people go back to the office they are certainly not attending book fairs and conferences. The Bologna Children’s Book Fair acknowledged reality on Thursday by officially canceling the physical events scheduled for June 14 through June 17. Unlike London Book Fair organizers, the Bologna fair stayed true to their pledge to give participants at least two months notice. In November, they had rescheduled the gathering from April to June — shortly before the rescheduled London Book Fair. BCBF Director Elena Pasoli says in the announcement, “It is with a very heavy heart that we cancel […]
Bookselling: Laid Off Powell’s Employees Need to Reapply for Work, and More
Powell’s Books is staffing up again — but union employees who were laid off last year will need to reapply and cannot just step back into their old jobs. The store and the ILWU Local 5 traded statements blaming each other for not handling the negotiations properly, but the impact on the former employees is the same regardless. Powell’s says it currently employs approximately 170 workers under its union contract, down from about 400 a year ago. The Tattered Cover plans a 1,400-square-foot children’s bookstore, set to open “early this summer,” at Stanley Marketplace in Aurura, CO. The ABA has […]
Same Home, New Flexibility
As you may have noticed, we recently rolled out a gentle evolution of the PublishersMarketplace.com home page. The primary purpose is to make the home page “responsive,” so that it works on screens and devices of all sizes. (Adjust the browser window size on your computer, or check it out on your cellphone to see what we mean.) All the content elements are the same. The big changes are the updated, simplified menu scheme that now sits at the top of a regular browser window (and within the “hamburger” on your cellphone) — and the login box, which moved from […]