At Open Road, Mary McAveney is being promoted to chief marketing officer and Daniel Shemesh has been promoted to chief financial officer. Katie O’Callaghan and Stephanie Cooper have both been promoted to director of marketing, working on titles across all of the Harper imprints (Harper hardcover, Harper Design, Amistad, and Broadside Books). At WaterBrook and Multnomah, Julia Wallace has been promoted to executive managing editor; Karen Sherry has been promoted to associate director of interiors; and Helen Macdonald has joined as production editor. Monica Odom has returned to Liza Dawson Associates as agent, bringing her clients with her from Bradford Literary Agency. Author most notably of the […]
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Mark Warren will join Random House as vice president and executive editor starting October 16. He was previously an editor at Esquire for two decades, and co-authored former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s memoir, The Good Fight. Editor-in-chief Andy Ward says: “Mark has the skills and intuition of a great editor, as well as the firsthand experience of an author–perspective and empathy that have earned the respect of the authors with whom he has worked.” Brian Geffen has joined Holt Children’s as editor. Most recently he was associate editor at Philomel. Cordelia Calvert has been promoted to senior publicist for Liveright. Scholastic Trade […]
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At Transatlantic Agency, Samantha Haywood, has bought controlling interest in the agency from co-founder David Bennett and is now president of the firm. Bennett will serve as chairman emeritus, and co-founder Lynn Bennett stays on as treasurer. Also at Transatlantic, Rob Firing has joined as speakers’ agent and literary agent, working tocreate a speakers’ division. He was senior director of publicity, communications, and speakers’ bureau at Harper Canada. Marilyn Biderman, previously of Marilyn Biderman Literary Management, joins as senior literary agent, bringing her clients with her. Bennett says of the changes, “Lynn and I are thrilled to be passing the torch to Samantha […]
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Wendi Gu has joined Janklow & Nesbit as an associate agent, working with Brooks Sherman in the children’s books division. She was most recently an agent at Greenburger Associates and will continue to represent fiction for young adult and middle-grade readers, picture books, and select adult fiction and nonfiction. Julie Tibbott, who was previously a senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, has joined Jill Corcoran Literary Agency as an agent. Jim Dassise, West Coast college field sales manager for Penguin Random House, will leave the company after 17 years on September 15. He can be reached at jdassise19@gmail.com and is based […]
Machado Tops October Indie Next List
The ABA named Carmen Maria Machado’s debut story collection Her Body and Other Parties the No. 1 Indie Next Pick for October. The list features a number of titles excerpted in our Buzz Books 2017 Fall/Winter Collection (noted with asterisks). Plus, two picks, Logical Family by Armistead Maupin and The Prague Sonata by Bradford Morrow, are available as audio excerpts in our October Buzz Books Monthly (NetGalley and iBooks versions only). The rest of the list: The Last Ballad, by Wiley Cash Manhattan Beach, by Jennifer Egan The Rules of Magic, by Alice Hoffman The Twelve-Mile Straight, by Eleanor Henderson* The Glass […]
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Harper announced the creation of Harper Collins Hungary. Harlequin Hungary and junior joint venture partner Vinton, which have operated for 25 years, will rebrand under the Harper Collins name, continuing to publish romance and expanding the trade line with titles from HarperCollins and Harlequin, as well as local authors. Beatrix Vasko, editor-in-chief of HarperCollins Hungary, says: “HarperCollins, with its 200-year history, provides a solid framework for us to grow our publishing program and expand into new genres.” Amazon is searching for a location for a second US headquarters that they’re calling HQ2, a “full equal to our Seattle headquarters.” Bloomberg reports that the company is […]