Longtime editor Tom Miller will join Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as a literary agent on September 15. He will represent primarily nonfiction projects in the areas of diet and wellness, psychology and self-help, business, popular culture, spirituality, cooking, and narrative nonfiction. Most recently, he was an executive editor at McGraw-Hill. Annie Nybo has been promoted to assistant editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books. In the UK, Bonnier Publishing has hired Justine Smith as publisher of Templar, starting October 20. She was previously a publisher at DK. Also in the UK, the shortlist was announced for Swansea University’s Dylan Thomas Prize to an author 39 or […]
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People: Layoffs At USA Today Claim Longtime Book Reporter/Reviewer
Layoffs at USA Today on Wednesday eliminated approximately 25 editorial jobs, including that of longtime Books section reporter and reviewer Bob Minzesheimer. He can be reached at bookbobminz@yahoo.com. He has written about books and authors since 1997. In other news, Natasha Alexis and Lana Popovic have joined Chalberg & Sussman as agents. Both were previously at Zachary Shuster Harmsworth, where Alexis supported business affairs and Popovic managed international rights. Former vp, publisher of Oxford University Press’s trade division Ellen Chodosh has been named publisher of NYU Press, effective September 15. She succeeds Steve Maikowski, who retired in May after 13 […]
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Former ceo of Atlantic Books Toby Mundy has established his own literary agency, Toby Mundy Associates. He will use Ed Victor Ltd.’s service operation Bedford Square Literary Management for “turn-key back-office service.” TMA is the first client for the new service. Amazon cfo since 2002 Thomas Szkutak will retire from the company in June 2015. Brian Olsavsky, vp of finance for the company’s global consumer business, will take over. Olga Massov has joined Phaidon in New York as project editor, food, reporting to Emily Takoudes. Melanie DeNardo has joined Little, Brown Children’s as publicity director. Previously she was deputy director of publicity at Henry Holt. In addition, […]
People, Etc.: Clegg Leaves WME; Editorial Layoffs at Atria; and More
Bill Clegg is leaving William Morris Endeavor after 8 years to set up his own literary agency. Clegg had not yet responded to our request for comment, so further details of his new venture are not clear, but WME svp Jennifer Rudolph Walsh told us: “For the 8 wonderful and productive years we worked together, it was the perfect match. Of course, we also understand and support Bill’s desire to start his own business and spread his entrepreneurial wings. We are cheering him on as he embarks on this new chapter of his life. There is no doubt he will […]
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Lia Ronnen has been promoted to publisher at Artisan, effective September 2. She succeeds Ann Bramson, who will now acquire books across Workman’s imprints with the new title of executive director, special projects at Workman. Of Ronnen’s appointment, Bramson said in the announcement: “Lia is an amalgam of everything one could want in a publisher: editorial vision, graphic sensibility, and sales and marketing savvy. I have an extraordinary successor in place and can now explore some unorthodox concepts and formats that I have been eager to develop for a long time.” Tricia Boczkowski has been named vp, editorial director of […]
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Robin Straus and Andrew Nurnberg have jointly acquired the Wallace Literary Agency, four months after the death of Lois Wallace, who founded the agency in 1988. Jeff Hoffman, who worked for the agency for the past 18 years, will stay on staff. Nurnberg handled foreign rights for her clients for over thirty years, while Straus was a vice-president of an earlier incarnation of Wallace’s agency in the 1980s. The two agents said in an announcement: “We were great admirers of Lois’s literary taste and business acumen and we are committed to representing the distinguished list of the Wallace Literary Agency […]