Jeanne-Marie Hudson joins Berkley/NAL this week as vp, director of marketing. She was previously senior director, marketing communications & audience development at St. Martin’s Press. At Putnam, Anna Romig has been promoted to assistant marketing manager. Bethany Bryan has joined Papercutz as associate editor. Previously she was social media manager for the Ezra Jack Keats Foundation. At Scott Manning & Associates, Abigail Welhouse has been promoted to publicist. Awards Nominations for the Hugo Awards were announced over the weekend, with the winners to be named at Worldcon later this year. This year’s roster comes with no small amount of controversy, […]
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May Chen has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow/Avon. Scholastic announced new appointments across several imprints. At Scholastic Trade, Caitlin Friedman has been named vp, marketing, moving over from Scholastic Media, where she was vp, marketing & brand management. Colleen Prendergrast has also joined Scholastic as associate manager, licensed publishing. She was most recently rights coordinator at HarperCollins. At Klutz, Kristin Carder has been named designer, joining from Braid Creative, where she developed brands for small businesses. Vicky Eva has also joined Klutz as senior sourcing specialist. Previously she was a senior vendor account manager at One Kings Lane. […]
European Commission Approves Macmillan Science/Springer Merger
The European Commission has approved the cashless merger between Holtzbrinck’s Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science+Business Media, which was first announced back in January. After reviewing the joint venture proposal, the EC found that the two companies “overlap mainly in the market for the provision of academic publishing and, marginally, in the markets for scientific online databases and workflow tools, marketing and communication as well as publishing related services.” The Commission “concluded that the proposed acquisition would not raise competition concerns given the parties’ moderate combined market positions resulting from the proposed transaction and the presence of a number of strong players […]
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Alex Merrill has joined Skyhorse in the newly created role of chief operating officer, reporting to Tony Lyons. Merrill was most recently group publisher at Morris Media Network. “Alex Merrill is the right person at the right time for Skyhorse Publishing,” said Lyons in the announcement. “I am confident that his strong management background combined with his entrepreneurial skills will help Skyhorse soar to the next level.” Stephanie Abou has joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin, where she will continue working with literary and upmarket novelists as well as select authors of narrative nonfiction and pop culture works. She had been at Foundry. […]
Indies Choice Nominees
Last week the American Booksellers Association announced finalists for the 2015 Indies Choice Book Awards, with voting on the winners to close at midnight on April 14 and the winners announced two days later. Adult Fiction All the Light We Cannot See, by Anthony Doerr (Scribner) The Bone Clocks, by David Mitchell (Random House) The Magician’s Land, by Lev Grossman (Viking) The Museum of Extraordinary Things, by Alice Hoffman (Scribner) Natchez Burning, by Greg Iles (William Morrow) Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel (Knopf) Adult Nonfiction Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End, by Atul Gawande (Metropolitan […]
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Leila Campoli has joined Stonesong as an agent representing nonfiction in the areas of business, economics, finance, science, pop culture, current affairs, and politics. She was most recently an editor at Palgrave Macmillan. Courtney Carbone is being promoted to associate editor at the Random House Children’s/Golden Books imprint. Alli Brydon is joining The Bright Group on April 6 as managing agent in their expanding US office. She has been a senior editor at Sterling Children’s, where she worked for over 9 years. She will oversee US agents James Burns and Anne Moore-Armstrong and help build their roster of US children’s book authors and illustrators. Faith […]