At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Devin MacDonald has joined as marketing manager. She was most recently brand manager for Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, and Dog Man at Scholastic. Audrey Gibbons has been promoted to publicity manager; Jill Hacking moves up to marketing operations and events associate; Amy Hendricks becomes marketing associate; Samantha Benson has been promoted to associate publicist; and Emily Hutton becomes associate director of sales. Kjersti Egerdahl has been promoted to senior editor at Amazon Original Stories. Patrick Crotty joins Random House Graphic as designer. He was previously publisher and co-founder of Peow. Morgan Vogt has joined Sourcebooks as marketing associate. Tina Wilson has been promoted […]
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Riverhead senior publicity manager Elizabeth Hohenadel, 34, passed away on Monday, “from a medical condition that arose suddenly a few months ago.” She worked at Riverhead since 2007, starting there as a publicity assistant. Penguin Publishing Group president Allison Dobson writes, “She was beloved for her gregarious enthusiasm, her keen but kind sense of humor, and a commitment to her authors that did not diminish after publication…. She excelled in bringing smart commercial fiction to a wide readership, with her relentless messaging, her personal appeals, and that well known humor.” She is survived by her husband Brian and her son Owen. Sierra […]
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Dana Spector has joined CAA as agent in the books department, based in Los Angeles. She was previously in the media rights department at Paradigm. Berrett-Koehler founder Steve Piersanti, who serves as both president/CEO and an editor, announced that he will relinquish his executive positions in mid-2019. He will continue as a full-time acquiring editor, though, “which is the role I have always believed I was best at performing and which has given me the greatest satisfaction.” Caroline A. Hayes has joined Norton as metadata operations manager. Awards The National Book Awards announced its 5 Under 35 honorees, including Nana Kwame […]
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Eamon Dolan will join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp says, “Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful in the […]
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Courtney Code has been promoted to associate editor at Abrams. Departing Orion group publisher Jon Wood will join Rogers, Coleridge and White as an agent in January. At Simon & Schuster, Allison Stegeland has been promoted to the newly created role of sales associate in the international sales channel. Henna Cho has been promoted to sales coordinator in the e-audio sales group. In Germany, Hans-Peter Ubleis, who had been publisher at Droemer Knaur for nearly 20 years, will return to Holtzbrinck in an advisory role. In the newly created position, he will focus on getting German authors published by Droemer Knaur, Kiepenheuer & […]
Folio Acquires Harold Ober Associates
Folio Literary Management announced that it has acquired, and will continue the business of, Harold Ober Associates, “representing some of the most iconic writers of the 20th century.” Ober president Phyllis Westberg comments, “The time has come to move forward. We believe this merger is a perfect pairing of the traditional and the new. We could not be more pleased for Folio to bring its added value to our already much valued and timeless titles.” (Westberg and Craig Tenney are retiring. All other Ober personnel will be joining Folio.) Founded in 1929, Harold Ober Associates’ clients have included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Agatha […]