At St. Martin’s, Joe Goldschein has been promoted to senior director, marketing & sales operations; Kim Ludlam to director, creative services; Martin Quinn to associate director, marketing; Marissa Sangiacomo to senior marketing manager; Erik Platt to senior manager, digital advertising operations; Danielle Prielipp to senior marketing manager; Joe Brosnan to senior marketing manager; DJ DeSmyter to marketing manager; and Dylan Helstien to assistant manager, advertising operations. Paddy Laidley, executive vice president and head of Raincoast Books, will retire on May 31. Current vice president of sales Peter MacDougall will succeed her. Laidley joined Raincoast in 1994 as sales manager and […]
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Ben Ball will join Simon & Schuster Australia in the newly created role of publishing director, Scribner. He will report to managing director Dan Ruffino, leading the recently launched Australian arm of the imprint. He was previously with Penguin Group Australia for 12 years, most recently as publishing director, literary. Keith Riegert will rejoin Ulysses Press, as evp and publisher on April 1. He worked in marketing analytics at Hachette Book Group for the past two years. Bryce Willett is stepping down as evp, but will continue to serve as a consultant for the press. Casie Vogel has been promoted to […]
Audio: Book Bub Launches Audio Deals for Direct Sale, and More
BookBub has launched a service called Chirp that highlights digital audiobook deals and sells those audiobooks directly, working as a supported retailer through distributor Findaway. The program is still in beta, and only has been rolled out to a “small percentage” of BookBub members, but they “anticipate a broader rollout over the coming year and expect the platform to evolve as we make improvements based on early user feedback.” The currently featured deals, offering about 75 audiobooks across seven categories, come from Penguin Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Blackstone, and a few independent authors. The company says they are […]
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Tessa Woodward has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow/Avon. At Little, Brown: Alexandra Hoopes has been promoted to assistant editor; Lucy Kim is now art director and Tim Harrington is senior art director; Katharine Myers moves up to director of publicity, Lena Khidritskaya Little becomes associate director of publicity and Alyssa Persons is publicist; and Ashley Marudas is promoted to senior marketing manager. Kathryn Taussig will be promoted to publishing director at Bookouture as of April 23, reporting to Jenny Geras, responsible for recruiting and leading their recently-announced team that will focus on commercial fiction for the US market. […]
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Mauro DiPreta will join the William Morrow group on March 4 as svp, executive editor, reporting to Liate Stehlik. He previously worked at HarperCollins for 16 years until 2011, and mostly recently was founder, vp and publisher of Hachette Books. Katya Shannon is stepping down this spring as vice president, special markets, Penguin Random House. She has been with the company since joining Putnam in 1980 as a field sales rep. Amanda Close will oversee special markets starting in May, in addition to her current role leading strategic market development. Hillary Brady has joined DK as digital marketing manager. She was […]
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to Launch Audiobooks Line
The largest trade publishing division without its own audiobooks line, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will launch HMH Audio in fall 2019. They plan to publish approximately 75 audiobooks a year including many of HMH’s frontlist adult and children’s titles, as well as select backlist. (Though up until now, agents have some times placed books with HMH while selling audio rights separately to Audible.) Tommy Harron is executive producer leading the new line, reporting to HMH svp and publisher Bruce Nichols. Harron has been at Hachette Audio as an engineer and producer for the past decade and “will initially hire a small team […]