Tara Gavin has joined Kensington as executive editor. She spent the past 30 years at Harlequin, most recently as senior executive editor. Ron Longe recently started his own boutique PR firm, Ron Longe Public Relations, specializing in food, lifestyle, and illustrated books. He can now be reached at ron@ronlonge.com. He was with Media Masters Publicity for six years. At P.S. Literary Agency, Amanda Schiffmann has been promoted to the newly created role of digital and social Media coordinator. Market Partners International celebrated their 25th anniversary at an event Monday night — and toasted one of the founding partners, Connie Sayre, who […]
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Benjamin Lee will join Putnam and Dutton as vp, associate publisher of paperbacks, as both imprints will launch their own in-house paperback lines beginning January 2016. Lee was previously vp, associate publisher at Atria. At St. Martin’s, Monique Patterson has been promoted to editorial director of romance while also continuing as executive editor. She will continue to acquire women’s fiction, literary fiction and commercial nonfiction for all parts of St. Martin’s list (hardcover, trade, mass market and ebook) and will continue to strengthen SMP’s African American fiction and nonfiction program as well. Former White House Press Secretary and political analyst for CNN Jay Carney will […]
People: Golomb to Join Writers House, Belden to Scribner, and More
At a party Thursday night to celebrate her agency’s 25th anniversary, Susan Golomb announced that she had decided it was time to join forces with a larger company, so she and her staff at the Susan Golomb Agency and clients (including Jonathan Franzen, on hand at the party, along with Rachel Kushner, William T. Vollmann, Tom Rachman and others) will become part of Writers House. The leaders of Writers House Amy Berkower and Simon Lipskar were on hand at the event to welcome Golomb and their partnership with her. “After celebrating 25 years of having my own agency, I wanted to spend the next […]
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Abrams announced a number of recent promotions as well as a new hire. At Abrams Children’s and Amulet, Traci Todd joined recently as executive editor (she was senior editor, children’s publishing at VIZ Media). Jennifer Graham has been promoted to senior managing editor, while Erica Finkel moves up to associate editor. On the adult trade side, Eric Klopfer has been promoted to senior editor; Erin Hotchkiss has been promoted to marketing director; Paul Colarusso moves up to senior marketing manager; and Jordan Sapiro has been promoted to associate publicist. Finally, Matthew Dinda has been promoted to trade sales representative, while Erica LaSala moves up to […]
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Allison Hunter has joined the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency as an agent. Previously she was an agent at Inkwell Management, and at SKLA will continue to actively acquire literary and commercial fiction, memoir, narrative nonfiction, cultural studies and pop culture. Jordan Hamessley will join Adaptive Books as editorial director on February 9 overseeing all imprints. Previously she was an editor at Egmont USA. Karin Schulze‘s position as associate director, foreign rights at the Crown Publishing Group has been eliminated. After February 6, she can be reached at karin.schulze@gmail.com. Ami Greko has left her position as book marketing strategist at Goodreads […]
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Derek Stordahl is promoted to evp, Bloomsbury USA with responsibility for Bloomsbury’s performance across their academic and trade businesses; he was previously head of sales. Cristina Gilbert is promoted to vp, sales and marketing for Bloomsbury’s US adult and children’s divisions. Alex Glass has formally announced his new literary agency, Glass Literary Management, formed late last year after he left Trident Media Group, where he worked for 13 years. He will continue to concentrate on nonfiction (including prescriptive, narrative, memoir, sports, pop culture, and celebrity); adult literary and general fiction; and children’s fiction. Heather Flaherty joins the Bent Agency as an agent […]