ICM has promoted nine of its agents to partner, including literary agent Alexandra Machinist, who joined the agency in 2014. Adriana Rizzo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as vp, marketing on April 6. Previously she was senior director, marketing at ESPN. In addition, Maire Gorman will take on the new role of svp, sales, while Laurie Brown moves up to svp, associate trade group publisher and business development. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Knox Huston has been promoted to executive editor. Awards The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize was awarded to Susan Southard for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking) while the […]
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At Penguin Random House’s consumer marketing development group, Mina Park has been promoted to director, consumer insights. In addition, senior director, digital development Katherine McCahill joins the group, where she will be responsible for overseeing the Penguin Random House apps portfolio. Sally Riley will step down as director of translation rights at Aitken Alexander at the end of April, though she will continue on a part time basis until a successor is in place “in order to ensure a smooth handover,” according to the agency announcement. Michelle Cashman has joined Grand Central’s Forever imprint as publicist. Previously she was associate […]
Briefs: Wimpy Kid 11, Booker International Candidates, and More
Book 11 in the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series will go on sale on November 1 in the US and “at least 20 international territories.” Last year was the first coordinated global release for Jeff Kinney’s series, and Israel and Korea have joined as new partners for the simultaneous laydown of book 11. Abrams says, “More on-sale publishing partners are expected to be announced soon.” The Booker International Prize announced its longlist, the first since the award changed to honor current releases and split the prize among authors and translators. The 13-book longlist includes The Story of the Lost Child […]
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At Ecco, Ben Tomek has been promoted to associate marketing director and Bridget Read moves up to assistant editor. At Chronicle Books, Madeline Carruthers has been promoted to contracts and permissions associate and Yesenia Herrera moves up to contracts manager. Caryn Berg has joined Berghahn Books as archaeology editor. Previously she was an editor at Left Coast Press. Katie Salisbury is now working as a freelance editor and is available for developmental editing and consultation on nonfiction projects. Previously, she edited books for HarperCollins and Amazon Publishing; most recently, she was a product manager at Bookspan, working on the relaunch […]
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Edward Benitez has joined HarperCollins’ Spanish language publishing program as senior acquisitions editor for Harper Espan͂ol, Grupo Nelson and Editorial Vida, reporting to Larry Downs and working out of the company’s offices in Nashville. Most recently, Benitez served as the director for US Spanish language sales for Penguin Random House. Richard Callison has been appointed director, international online & digital sales, Penguin Random House international sales and marketing. He previously was an associate publisher at Random House. Jade Yeung has joined little bee books as production coordinator. Previously she was a production associate at Norton. Courtney Miller-Callihan has opened her own […]
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At the Frances Goldin Agency, Matt McGowan has been promoted to senior agent and rights director. At HarperCollins Children’s Books, Caroline Sun has been promoted to director of publicity, Rosanne Romanello moves up to associate director of publicity, and Stephanie Hoover has been promoted to publicist. Mike Conway has joined Chronicle Books as IT director. Previously he was director, CRM and analytics at Bare Escentuals. In addition, Freesia Blizard has joined as associate production developer. Previously she was senior production coordinator at C&T Publishing. In the UK, former Hot Key Books managing director and Oneworld children’s publisher Sarah Odedina will […]