Maggie Richards has been promoted to deputy publisher at Henry Holt, in addition to her current responsibilities as vp sales and marketing.
Simon & Schuster UK senior commissioning editor Francesca Main will move to Picador on September 26 as editorial director, acquiring and publishing commercial literary fiction.
RPG game designer Jonathan Tweet [stet] was hired in June by Amazon and is said to be developing a “social game”–indicated on his LinkedIn page, which indicates he is “doing social games with a crack team,” and confirmed by Tweet to IndustryGamers. Amazon purchased a downloadable gaming company Reflexive Entertainment in 2008, but “developing and publishing a social game is a much different proposition than creating a typical downloadable PC game.” The move is yet another indication of something that would make sense if your company was planning on launching its own media tablets.
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Also game-related, in an author vein, Andy McNab (who is both an author and co-owner of the UK’s GoSpoken) is listed as the co-author of a November book from Grand Central that will tie into the holiday release of the XBox game Battlefied 3.
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Agent Helen Heller announces that Kelley Armstrong will be end her series Women of the Otherworld with ’13,’ the thirteenth and final installment, for publication in 2012.
F+W Media has acquired The Writers Store, a third-party reseller of writing and filmmaking tools, for an undisclosed sum.
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