At Harper Children’s, Lindsey Karl has been promoted to the new role of assistant manager, conferences and conventions. Former director of publicity at Overlook and Quirk Books, Jack Lamplough, 59, died August 20. Most recently he had established his own agency representing authors, artists, and musicians. A private memorial service will be held at a later date.
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At St. Martin’s, Lisa Senz has been promoted to vp, associate publisher, reporting to Jennifer Enderlin. Jackie Cantor will join Gallery Books as senior editor on August 29. Most recently she was executive editor at Berkley. Jessica Schmidt will join Running Press as director of marketing and publicity on September 14, working out of the Philadelphia offices. Previously she was director of sales and subsidiary rights at The Story Plant. Cara Raguz joins BlueBottleBiz as marketing coordinator. Previously she worked in the field marketing department at Nimble Storage. Awards Marilynne Robinson has won the Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award […]
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At Putnam, Ashley Hewlett has been promoted to publicity manager, while Elena Hershey moves up to senior publicist. Melissa Ceraso has been named editor in mathematics and the natural sciences, and Jason Simon has been hired as senior web developer for Choice, the reviews publication from the Association of College and Research Libraries. At Glitterati Incorporated, Conor Romack has been promoted to sales & projects manager. In the UK, Simon Thorogood will move to Canongate from Headline as editorial director at the end of August, and Hannah Knowles will join the publisher as senior commissioning editor in November (she is currently at Octopus). Weston Woods Studios founder Morton […]
Forman’s Leave Me Tops September Library Reads List
Gayle Forman’s novel for adults, Leave Me, is the no. 1 pick for the September Library Reads List. You can start reading an excerpt of another novel on the list, Commonwealth by Ann Patchett, right now at Buzz Books 2016: Fall/Winter. The rest of the list features: Jenny Colgan, The Bookshop on the Corner Dinah Jefferies, The Tea Planter’s Wife Sharon Bolton, Daisy in Chains Thomas Mullen, Darktown Genevieve Cogman, The Masked City Alan Bradley, Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew’d Patrick Phillips, Blood at the Root: A Racial Cleansing in America Kate Saunders, The Secrets of Wishtide
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Simon & Schuster Children’s announced a number of promotions and recent hires across various imprints. Sarah McCabe has been promoted to assistant editor, Simon Pulse. Nina Simoneaux has joined Aladdin as junior designer. Previously she was a design assistant at Random House Children’s, working on the Knopf, Crown, Delacorte, and Wendy Lamb imprints. Regina Flath has joined Random House Children’s as senior designer. Previously she was a senior designer at Simon & Schuster Children’s. In addition, Jaclyn Whalen has joined as designer. Previously she was a design associate at Vintage/Anchor. Annie Stone has joined BookBub as an account manager, where […]
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At Penguin Books, Victoria Savanh has been promoted to assistant editor. At BlueBottleBiz, Mike Conner has been promoted to chief evangelist, where he will spearhead the company’s member adoption while overseeing his pre-existing sales team. At Westwood Creative Artists, Stephanie Thompson has joined as office manager and literary assistant to Michael Levine. In addition, Jake Babad has left the agency to attend law school. Crystal McCoy has joined little bee books as senior publicist. She was senior account executive at B/HI. Opening sales Nielsen Bookscan announced that UK print sales for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in its first […]