Ruth Alltimes will become managing director of Hachette UK’s consolidated children’s book lines on August 8, reporting to group ceo Hilary Murray Hill, leaving her position as fiction publishing director at Harper UK Children’s. Additionally, Anne McNeil has been promoted to senior publisher for Hodder Children’s, Enid Blyton Entertainment and Quercus Children’s, also reporting to Hill. Sarah Lambert moves up to editorial director for fiction for both Hodder Children’s and Quercus Children’s. Deputy managing director of the group Clare Somerville will become commercial director, continuing to lead rights, marketing and publicity teams. She will “focus on sales across all channels, and will lead the commercial activity for Enid Blyton Entertainment.” […]
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At Blue Rider Press/Plume, Brian Ulicky is being promoted to director of publicity as of June 1, co-leading the publicity team with associate publisher Aileen Boyle — to whom he continues to report. Milena Brown will move up to senior publicist, reporting to Ulicky. Kayleigh George joins the group on May 25 as associate marketing director, reporting to Boyle. She has been senior marketing manager at Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway. Kate Keating has joined Random House Children’s Books as director of digital marketing. Previously she was director of social media at L’Oreal USA. Dark Horse vp, book trade sales Michael Martens […]
Author Sues to Challenge eBooks As Sale Rather Than License, But He Sues the Wrong Publisher
Publishers’ early insistence on treating consumer ebook transactions as sales for royalty purposes, even though the files are provided to paying individuals under limited license rather than sold, is being challenged in an author lawsuit filed in New York Supreme Court on May 19, seeking class action status. But the author and his attorneys appear to have brought suit against the wrong company, so the current filing will likely be rejected for lack of standing. The brief six-page lawsuit, first noticed by CopyLaw, was filed by Sheldon Blau, author of How to Get Out of the Hospital Alive against Simon & […]
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At the Penguin Publishing Group, Casey Blue James has been promoted to manager, business development. Scott Haney has joined Chronicle Books as human resources manager, while Alexandra Brown has been hired as marketing & publicity manager, lifestyle. Awards The CMLP presented the second annual revitalized Firecracker Awards on Thursday. Winners included The Things We Don’t Do by Andrés Neuman (Open Letter) for fiction, and The World is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse by Joni Tevis (Milkweed Editions) for nonfiction. Interviews Lithub’s “Gatekeepers” column features a Q&A with Riverhead editorial director Rebecca Saletan. What makes a Riverhead — and Saletan […]
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Brenda Marsh will become managing director of Abrams & Chronicle Books, the UK-based sales and marketing joint venture of Abrams and Chronicle Books, on June 27. Marsh has been vp, director of business development at Abrams since 2014, after almost 15 years in executive positions at Barnes & Noble. She fills the position vacated by Doug Pocock in March. Abrams ceo Michael Jacobs says in the announcement, “Brenda is a proven leader, an inspirational boss, and a superb mentor as well as a seasoned professional who is admired throughout the publishing industry.” Also in the UK, president of SAGE International Stephen Barr has been […]
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Beverly Rykerd has been promoted to vp, director of publicity at Waterbrook Multnomah. In addition Lisa Beech is returning to the company as assistant director of publicity. Most recently she was a publicist at David C. Cook for the last four and a half years, and originally worked at Waterbrook/Multnomah between 2006 and 2008. Zondervan has promoted Jesse Hillman to vp, marketing for the church, academic, reference, and reflective publishing team. Elissa Schappell, Vanity Fair’s “Hot Type” columnist for more than twenty years, is bidding the magazine “a fond farewell” to focus more time on her own writing. In the […]