At Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, Tanusri Prasanna has joined as an associate, specializing in children’s books. She will work with Carrie Hannigan on children’s and YA projects and with Josh Getzler on special projects and contracts. (With a PhD in jurisprudence from Oxford, she has worked in the office of the general counsel, and interned at Foundry Literary + Media and Knopf Children’s.) Danielle Burby has been promoted to junior agent and foreign rights manager. She represents YA, women-driven crime fiction, and women’s fiction. At Clarkson Potter, Amanda Englander was promoted to editor. Caroline Osborn has joined Little, Brown Children’s […]
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Ken Michaels has been named ceo of Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures, taking up the post after the merger of MacmillanScience and Education and Springer Science closes. Michaels wil report to John Sargent in the new position, which includes the US-based higher education publishing that Macmillan retains outright after the merger. (He is currently global chief operating office of MSE.) Ruta Rimas has been promoted to senior editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books. Siena Koncsol has joined Harlequin Teen as publicity manager. Previously she was a publicist at S&S Children’s. Domenica Alioto is being promoted to senior editor for Crown. Jennifer Johnson-Blalock […]
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Wiley ceo Stephen Smith will retire on June 1 as a result of previously disclosed medical reasons (Smith was diagnosed with urological cancer.) Mark Allin, currently coo, will succeed Smith as ceo, earning a base annual salary of $750,000. Chairman Peter Wiley said in the announcement: “[Allin] has been instrumental in restructuring and reorganizing the business,” as well as “reallocating resources to high-growth areas.” Elias Altman has joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as a literary agent, where he will focus on literary fiction, memoirs, and a broad range of narrative and expository nonfiction including works of history, science, travel, and cultural […]
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Mary Faria will join Perseus on April 20 in the newly created role of vp, mass merch sales, reporting to Sabrina McCarthy. Previously she was director of sales at becker!&mayer. Rick Monteith, Peter D’Erasmo, Christina Douglas, and Cherish Barrett will now report to Faria. At Random House Children’s Publishing, Stephanie O’Cain has been promoted to senior marketing manager; Sarah Wharton moves up to assistant marketing manager, and Alissa Nigro has been promoted to marketing coordinator. In addition, Hannah Black joins as assistant marketing manager from Diversion Books, where she was marketing coordinator. Sarah Bush has been promoted to audio rights […]
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Gigi Campo has been promoted to associate editor at Avery. Liz Stein has joined Mira Books as editor. Previously she was an associate editor at Putnam. Dina Davis is now at Harlequin as assistant editor/editorial assistant working on Harlequin Historical and Love Inspired Suspense. Mark Gottlieb has been promoted to full-time agent at Trident Media Group. At the “newly aligned” Blue Rider Press/Plume group, Christina Hu has been hired as associate marketing director (she had been senior marketing manager at Atavist Books), and Wesley Salazar has been promoted to marketing associate. Liz Ridout has joined Booktrack as chief marketing officer. Previously she was vp, marketing at Kobo. In addition, […]
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Leila Campoli has joined Stonesong as an agent representing nonfiction in the areas of business, economics, finance, science, pop culture, current affairs, and politics. She was most recently an editor at Palgrave Macmillan. Courtney Carbone is being promoted to associate editor at the Random House Children’s/Golden Books imprint. Alli Brydon is joining The Bright Group on April 6 as managing agent in their expanding US office. She has been a senior editor at Sterling Children’s, where she worked for over 9 years. She will oversee US agents James Burns and Anne Moore-Armstrong and help build their roster of US children’s book authors and illustrators. Faith […]