People, Etc. - Publishers Lunch

Jamie Lockard will take over as vice president and publisher at Harper Leadership on May 17, succeeding Jeff James, who is leaving “to explore startup business opportunities and finish his Ph.D. in organizational leadership.” Lockard has been vice president of marketing at Nelson Books.

Maya Millett will join Dial Press as senior editor, reporting to Whitney Frick, vp editorial director. She previously founded MDash Productions, an independent book editing, collaborative writing, and audio storytelling consultancy. Michael Hoak has joined Random House as senior marketing manager, reporting to Barbara Fillon, vp director of marketing. He previously lead the online marketing department at Yale University Press.

At Penguin Random House, Jennifer Childs is promoted to vp, director, of a newly unified and renamed Library Marketing and Digital Library Sales Group as of May 3. Within the new group, Brian Nelsen and Hugo Bresson are both promoted to senior sales manager, reporting Childs. Erica Melnichok becomes Knopf Doubleday Group senior library marketing manager; and Liz Camfiord (library marketing manager, Penguin Group) and Sharnell Johnson (marketing manager) both join the library marketing team. Sharon Parker will retire April 30 as director, library sales, completing a 30-year career. Skip Dye writes, “Sharon’s long-standing relationships with librarians have been a key contribution to PRH’s success.”

Julia Walchuk has been promoted to publishing sales manager at VIZ Media.

At VitalSource, Nancy Stosik has been promoted to head of the Enterprise team; Shanna Daniel to director, customer success for the Publisher Customer Success team; and Kendall Koliopoulos to manager, customer success for the Partner Team.

Paul Harrington has joined Well-Trained Mind Press as sales director.

Awards
Louise Erdrich‘s The Night Watchman won the $35,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize.

Evie Wyld‘s novel The Bass Rock won Australia’s Stella Prize.

Forthcoming
Ai Weiwei‘s memoir 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows, with a cover of his own design, and translated by Allan H. Barr, will be published by Crown on November 2. They acquired the book in 2015, originally hoping for a 2017 publication.