At Putnam, Katie McKee has been promoted to senior publicity manager, while Elena Hershey moves up to associate publicist. At Chronicle Books, Will Schrom has been promoted to national accounts manager, Barnes & Noble and Calendar Club. At Crown Publishing Group, Hanna Glidden has been promoted to associate managing editor. Katie McHugh has left her post as editor, brand development at Time Home Entertainment to become a freelance nonfiction editor. She can be reached at mchugh.katie@gmail.com. Christina Rodriguez has left Hudson Street Press, where she was associate editor, to pursue an opportunity outside of the publishing industry. She can be […]
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Lisa Yoskowitz will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as executive editor on July 21. Previously she was senior editor at Disney-Hyperion. At Chronicle Books, Kelli Chipponeri has been promoted to editorial director, children’s. Noah Ballard has joined Curtis Brown as a literary agent. He had previously been with Emma Sweeney Agency. He will continue to represent literary fiction, thrillers and narrative non-fiction. 800-CEO-READ announced a number of changes following the retirement of founder and president Jack Covert. Sally Haldorson has been promoted to general manager and will oversee day-to-day operations of the company. Aaron Schleicher takes over as […]
Approximately 25 Let Go at Globe Pequot & Lyons Press
Two months after Rowman & Littlefield acquired Globe Pequot Press from Morris Communications, the Guilford, CT-based publisher has let go approximately 25 staffers, including a number of people from editorial and sales. Four Lyons Press editors and a manager were let go, as were the managers of Globe Pequot Press and Falcon Guides. In their places, Amy Lyons has been promoted to editorial director at Globe Pequot Press and Katie Benoit has been promoted to editorial director of Falcon. Keith Wallman has been promoted to editorial director at Lyons Press and will hire “new editors to assist him in rebuilding the Lyons program in its traditional areas of […]
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Charles Watkinson joined the University of Michigan Library on July 1 as associate university librarian for publishing and director of the University of Michigan Press. Most recently he was head of scholarly publishing services and director of Purdue University Press. At Macmillan, Ruth Esehak-Gillespie has been promoted to international sales and marketing manager. At Harper UK, Natalie Jerome has been promoted to nonfiction publisher. Ann Lawson has been hired as head of Publishing Technology’s ingentaconnect division. She was at EBSCO Information Services, most recently as senior director. At Harlequin, Erika Imranyi has been promoted to executive editor, Mira. Co-founder of The […]
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Following the February announcement that Penguin Random House would close two Penguin warehouse/operations centers by 2015 and consolidate all US fulfillment operations into the Westminster, MD and Crawfordsville, IN facilities, there is a now a report on an expansion of that warehouse in Indiana. PRH is adding 350,00 square feet (growing by about 50 percent) and plans to add “up to 313 new jobs by 2016.” The first of the hiring will begin this August. Walter Dean Myers, 76, author of numerous children’s novels that chronicled struggles of urban youths, died July 1 at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan […]
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Hachette Australia ceo and chairman of Hachette New Zealand Matt Richell, 40, was killed in a surfing accident in Sydney earlier Wednesday, the Sydney Morning Herald reported. In a statement Hachette UK ceo Tim Hely Hutchinson said: “With great sorrow, and in shock, we have to announce the death of our beloved friend and colleague. Our thoughts and most heartfelt condolences are with Matt’s wife Hannah, his family, his colleagues and many friends in publishing and more widely.” Crown announced a number of recent promotions in the editorial department. Kevin Doughten has been promoted to senior editor for both the […]