Whitney Frick will take over as editorial director of The Dial Press on December 4, reporting to Susan Kamil. She has been executive editor at Flatiron Books. Becca Putman joins the Crown Publishing Group as marketing manager for Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway Books. Most recently she worked in Grove Atlantic’s marketing department. Steve Fischer will retire as executive director of the New England Independent Booksellers Association when a successor is found. He has been in the position since 2006. President of the board Laura Cummings says, “While we all wholeheartedly wish Steve well in his upcoming retirement, […]
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Publisher of Tarcher Perigee since 1996 Joel Fotinos has decided to leave the company. (He also founded the Putnam Praise publishing program in 2006.) Penguin Publishing Group president Madeline McIntosh writes to staff: “From his early days at Tarcher and throughout his career here, he has always been focused on publishing books that strive to make the world a better place, and as much as we will miss him, I know you will join me in supporting his decision to take that mission beyond our walls.” Avery publisher Megan Newman will become publisher for Avery and Tarcher Perigee, though the imprints will […]
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Daniel Nayeri, Nathalie Le Du, and Colleen AF Venable are leaving Workman Children’s to start a new imprint at Macmillan Children’s. They will serve as publisher, editorial director, and creative director, respectively. Nayeri says, “Our new imprint will be a collaboration of makers in the communal pursuit of creating art objects for great and terrible children.” (That line, which sounds cute but doesn’t actually mean anything, is a direct repeat of what he said when he joined Workman in 2013 — though at the time, he said it in both English and French.) He will report to Macmillan Children’s president […]
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Black Dog & Leventhal founder and publisher J.P. Leventhal will leave the company on December 31. The imprint becomes part of Running Press, reporting to vp and publisher Kristin Kiser, effective immediately. Hachette Book Group ceo Michael Pietsch says, “J.P. Leventhal has been a force in publishing, an original, and a splendid collaborator. His genius for bringing visual content into books in new ways has brought joy to millions of readers. It has been a pleasure having him and his team become part of HBG, and we look forward to his DNA living on in the imprint he created.” At […]
People: Napack to Lead Wiley
Former president of Macmillan Brian Napack will join Wiley as president and ceo, starting December 4. He has been senior advisor for private equity firm Providence Equity Partners since 2012, and serves on the boards of companies including Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ingram, Blackboard, and Recorded Books. He will “will transition off certain of these boards. “ Interim ceo since Mark Allin resigned in May for family reasons Matthew Kissner will remain as chairman of Wiley’s board. He says: “After a thorough and thoughtful search, the Board of Directors unanimously agreed on Brian as the type of proven leader that can drive our continuous […]
November Indie Next List
The ABA named Megan Hunter’s The End We Start From their No. 1 pick for November. Also on the list is Francesca Hornak’s Seven Days of Us and Gabrielle Union’s We’re Going to Need More Wine, both featured in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter collection available now for download. The rest of the list: Wonder Valley, by Ivy Pochoda Artemis, by Andy Weir It Devours!, by Joseph Fink & Jeffrey Cranor Heather, the Totality, by Matthew Weiner Strange Weather, by Joe Hill American Wolf, by Nate Blakeslee It’s All Relative, by A.J. Jacobs Mr. Dickens and His Carol, by Samantha Silva Hiddensee, by Gregory […]