Mark Smith is stepping down as ceo of Bonnier Zaffre at the end of July and has sold his equity stake. Smith has been with the company since 2014. While Bonnier looks for a successor, executive director of adult publishing Kate Parkin, executive director of children’s publishing Jane Harris, and executive director of sales and marketing James…
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Taneli Ruda has joined Wiley as evp, chief strategy officer, where he will help to define and accelerate the next phase of the company’s growth. Ruda most recently served as head of corporate strategy at Thomson Reuters, with responsibility for defining the company’s portfolio and growth strategies, and driving company-wide M&A. “Taneli is an exceptional…
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After six years of building the Quercus US list, publisher Nathaniel Marunas will leave at the end of June. He says, “The process of building Quercus from scratch has been hugely rewarding, but also utterly consuming. Having poured myself into launching the business and helping it grow, it is time to take a brief sabbatical,…
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At Wendy Sherman Associates, Kelli Martin has joined as an agent representing romance, women’s commercial fiction and book club fiction. She was previously a founding editor of Montlake Romance at Amazon Publishing and an executive editor at Lake Union. Nicki Richesin has joined as an agent representing upmarket and literary fiction, young adult fiction, and memoir. She previously…
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Dan Vidra has joined HarperCollins as associate director on the international sales team, managing US division sales in the open market. He replaces Alison Smith, who took over closed market sales. Vidra had a long career in international book sales, and worked for txtr and its various successor companies for the past six years. Julia Kardon has…
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Further to our news brief about Sarah Crichton leaving FSG at the end of the year to pursue other opportunities, when we queried the publisher about it last week they said there was no announcement. Now they have issued a statement, in which FSG publisher and president Jonathan Galassi says, “With her unique blend of enthusiasm, discernment and publishing…