Michael Cairns is joining Publishing Technology as chief operating officer of their online solutions division, replacing Louise Russell. His responsibilities include their pub2web hosting platform and the ingentaconnect portal. Most recently Cairns has been a consultant and served as chief revenue office for SharedBook, focused on their Academic Pub platform. Greenhouse Literary Agency has hired Polly Nolan head up the UK side of their business representing children’s and YA authors. Currently associate publishing director, fiction, at Macmillan UK Children’s, she will start her new job on June 3. Amber Morley has joined Chronicle Books as marketing coordinator for their children’s division. […]
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Julia Kenny is joining Dunow Carlson & Lerner as an agent, rejoining her recent colleague Eleanor Jackson. Kenny was at Markson Thoma–from which Geri Thoma, Jackson, Laney Katz Becker and Kenny have all departed since early March. At Abbeville Press, Joan Strasbaugh has been named senior editor. Previously she was publisher of Jones Books in Madison, WI. In addition, Diana Griffin has been promoted to marketing and publicity manager. At Harlequin Shannon Criss has been promoted to associate editor for the Kimani imprint. In the UK, Mari Evans will leave Michael Joseph to go to Headline in July as publishing director, fiction. […]
ICM Joins Other Agencies In Helping Clients, Like David Mamet, Publish Directly
A modest and long-expected press release–ICM Partners will offer Perseus’s Argo Navis self-publishing program to their authors, and announces 3 books in that release that will be available through the initiative–takes an expansive turn in today’s NYT that will likely confuse the average reader. (Argo Navis tells us that ICM is actually starting with about 10 titles in the program.) As we reported 18 months ago, ICM has long been in negotiations about using Argo Navis as at least one option for their clients. The Times tells readers ICM “is one of the biggest and most powerful agencies to offer […]
People: Futter Named Publisher of Twelve as Goldstein Leaves to “Pursue Other Interests”
Cary Goldstein is leaving Twelve after seven years, the last two as the imprint’s publisher, to “pursue other interests.” Grand Central president and publisher Jamie Raab said in the announcement that Goldstein has contributed an enormous amount to the imprint’s many successes.” He will remain at Twelve through May 1 as part of the transition that will see Grand Central vp, editor-in-chief Deb Futter will add to her existing duties responsibility for the Twelve imprint as publisher. Futter has been at Grand Central since 2007. “I can’t think of a sharper or more experienced editorial voice to shape this dynamic […]
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Laney Katz Becker has joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin as an agent. Previously she was at Markson Thoma. At Ten Speed Press, Kelly Snowden has been promoted to marketing and publicity manager. UK-based And Other Stories is established a New York presence, run by Sarah Russo of Sara Russo Public Relations as North American director of publicity. Beginning with the fall/winter 2013 list, their titles will be distributed here by Consortium. In the UK, Samantha Smith will join Scholastic on May 20 as publisher, fiction. She is currently editorial director at Little, Brown UK. In addition, Rachel Partridge will join the company […]
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Christian Trimmer will join Simon & Schuster Children’s as senior editor on April 15. Previously he was senior editor at Disney-Hyperion. Wah-Ming Chang has joined Melville House as managing editor. Previously she was a production manager at FSG. In addition, Alex Shephard has been named director of digital marketing, as well as managing editor of the publisher’s MobyLives blog. Shephard is editor-in-chief of online literary magazine Full Stop. At Random House, Jennifer Javier has been promoted to regional sales manager, International Sales, covering Indonesia and the Philippines. Javier will be based in Manila. At Hachette Book Group, Ali Coughlin has been […]