Sandy McCormick Hill has left her position as ebook rights, contract manager, at Harper Collins. She can be reached at smchill@gmail.com. Simone Garzella Literary Scouting has been appointed US literary scout for the Lira Publishing Group in Hungary. Correcting from Friday, Liesa Abrams‘ new title is associate editorial director of Aladdin and Pulse. Linda Leavell‘s HOLDING UP UPSIDE DOWN: The Life and Work of Marianne Moore won the Biographers International Organization’s Plutarch Award for the best biography. The closing in April 2015 of the California Princeton Fulfillment Services in Ewing, NJ that we reported on Friday — part of the […]
Perseus to Launch Client Services Division for Academic Publishers
Perseus is launching a new client services division, Perseus Academic, dedicated to university presses and other scholarly publishers, under the direction of Sabrina McCarthy. The service, set to begin in May 2015, has already signed on Princeton University Press and University of California Press as new clients, joining such current Perseus Distribution clients as Columbia University Press, among others, which will move into this new division. Perseus Academic will also offer a menu of other service options including the Constellation digital services platform (which comprises print on demand, short print runs, ebook distribution, and various marketing tools). Princeton and the University […]
People: Aragi Honored, and More
The Center for Fiction will present their 2014 Maxwell E. Perkins Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Field of Fiction to literary agent Nicole Aragi at their December 9 benefit and awards dinner. Elizabeth Scarboro‘s My Foreign Cities has won the third annual Chautauqua Prize. Liesa Abrams has been promoted to associate editorial director, Aladdin and Simon Pulse. At Putnam, Liz Stein has been promoted to associate editor. Jayme Boucher has been promoted to agent director at the Penguin Speakers Bureau, reporting to Tiffany Tomlin. Both managers Elaine Trevorrow and Erin Simpson will report to Boucher. The Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin […]
Authors: John Green’s Fame Intensifies; Foer “Cultivates Thought” at Chipotle; and More
The Wall Street Journal profiles John Green at length a few weeks in advance of the release date for the highly-anticipated film version of THE FAULT OF OUR STARS, which the paper reports has sold more than 9 million copies in print. In trying to “pinpoint when Green went from being famous on the Internet to being just plain famous” the paper says “he avoids making physical contact with strangers and feels unsettled by the massive crowds he has been drawing during a nationwide tour” which included a recent screening for fans at a mall in Miami where “some 5,000 […]
People: Lynch to Ecco, Penguin Random’s Marketing/Operations Team, Sophie Hicks’ Agency
Megan Lynch will join Ecco as editorial director on May 28, reporting to Daniel Halpern, who says “I can’t imagine anyone more suited to taking over the fiction reins at Ecco.” Ryan Willard will report to Lynch, and Hillary Redmon will continue to report to Halpern. Lynch is currently senior editor at Riverhead, where she spent the previous 11 years. Penguin Random House has created a companywide Consumer Marketing Development and Operations group. SVP, director Amanda Close — who has led the predecessor, Random House’s digital marketing and channel development team — will lead the new group, reporting to US president and coo Madeline McIntosh. […]
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At St. Martin’s, John Murphy will take the new role of vp, publishing strategy. “He will be involved in author relations, list developments, and in seeking new publishing opportunities and concepts as well as identifying trends in publishing and the media at large.” Most recently divisional vp, director of publicity, Murphy has been at St. Martin’s for over 25 years. Former Penguin Group advising director of corporate communications (and longtime S&S director of publicity before that) Tracey Guest will take over as vp, director of publicity for all of the St. Martin’s Press imprint on June 2. She will report to […]