Parenting Press is being acquired by Chicago Review Press (which already distributes the press through its IPG unit) effective January 1, and will continue as an imprint of its new parent company. Chicago Review Press publisher Cynthia Sherry will oversee the list from the 37-year-old practical parenting and children’s book publisher. Parenting Press president and founder Elizabeth Crary plans to retire from publishing but will continue her work as a parent educator and author, and none of the company’s staff will stay on after the acquisition. “The acquisition of Parenting Press by Chicago Review Press is a dream come true for a […]
Agency News
People: New President for Chronicle, and More
Chronicle Books vp of sales & marketing Tyrrell Mahoney is being promoted to president of the publisher as of January 1, as Jack Jensen takes the “more comprehensive role” of president of McEvoy Group, Chronicle’s owner. Jensen will oversee all of McEvoy’s companies — Chronicle Books, along with Galison/Mudpuppy, Princeton Architectural Press, and ISeeMe. Mahoney joined Chronicle in 1996 and will report to Jensen. McEvoy Group ceo Nion McEvoy says in the announcement: “It has been an honor and a privilege to work with Jack personally for over thirty years. His contributions to Chronicle Books as well as to the business of […]
People, Etc.
Danielle Smith has left Red Fox Literary after three years to launch her own literary agency, Lupine Grove Creative, with most of her clients set to follow her to the new agency. Playwright Kia Corthron has won the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize for her debut novel The Castle Cross the Magnet Carter (Seven Stories Press). Green Apple Books music buyer and DJ Johnny Igaz, 34, who had been missing in the Oakland warehouse fire, was confirmed by the Coroner on Tuesday as among the identified victims. Forthcoming Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian will write a memoir of his […]
People, Bookselling, Etc.
Adriana Stimola has joined the Stimola Literary Studio as agent, representing cookbooks, lifestyle, and health and wellness books. She was formerly content manager at Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture. Chris Francis has joined Sourcebooks as assistant editor. Elizabeth Scarpelli has been hired as director of the new University of Cincinnati Press, which aims to be “an innovative 21st century academic press.” She was director of publisher services at Baker & Taylor and Bookmasters, prior to which she was assistant press director and sales and marketing director for Rutgers University Press. At Ingram Publisher Services, Bonnie Dailey joins the company based […]
People
After sharing office space and some employees for the past two years, agencies Kuhn Projects and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth are formally merging to form Aevitas Creative Management. They write in an announcement: “Our every hope is that Aevitas will carry forward the best practices and traditions of both agencies. We’re especially excited to create more growth opportunities for younger colleagues eager to spread their wings and be part of an organization that we’re confident will thrive for years to come. We remain a boutique enterprise, but a stronger and more capable one, with an ever more impressive list of clients, agents, […]
People: Stanley Forms New Firm, and More
Janklow & Nesbit partner, managing director and head of foreign rights Cullen Stanley has left to form her own firm, Cullen Stanley International Agency. Stanley has worked at J&N since 1991. The agency said in a brief statement it “is very pleased to announce that it is spinning off its foreign rights department in support of” Stanley’s company. She will handle all UK/Commonwealth and translation rights for Janklow & Nesbit. In other people news, Beth Vesel has left the Irene Goodman Literary Agency to reopen her own agency (which she ran until joining Goodman as svp in early 2014). Kathleen Schmidt […]