Nicole Dewey will join Little, Brown as executive director of publicity, starting November 15 and reporting to vp, marketing director Heather Fain. She has been executive director of publicity at Henry Holt. Director of the University of Texas Press since 1992 Joanna Hitchcock announced that she will retire at the end of February. She said, “I’ve been at the helm for almost a third of the Press’s 60-year existence and it is time for new leadership.” Erzsi Deà k is now scouting for both children’s imprints of La Martinière Groupe in France: Le Seuil Jeunesse and La Martinière Jeunesse. She works […]
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People, Distribution, Awards, A Party, Etc.
At F+W Media, Kate Rados has been promoted to group marketing director, and both Rados and Kathleen Blackwelder are joining the company’s executive committee. Merriam-Webster has hired Caryl Schivley as vp, chief financial officer/chief administrative officer. She was previously vp, finance for Atlas Copco Construction Tools. The new Danish Hans Christian Andersen literature prize, worth almost $100,000, has gone to JK Rowling. Given to “a writer whose work can be compared to that of Andersen,” it should not be confused with the established Hans Christian Andersen medal, which is often pitched as the Nobel for children’s books.Guardian The AAP’s Young […]
People, Awards, etc.
Ryan Doherty has moved over from Ballantine to Random House Trade Paperbacks as an editor, reporting to Jane von Mehren. And Erika Greber has joined the Random House Publishing Group as assistant marketing manager for Random House, Spiegel & Grau, Dial Press, and The Modern Library. She was a marketing associate at Random House Audio. At Simon & Schuster, Kate Ankofski has been promoted to associate editor. Elsewhere in the company, Meredith Wahl-Jones moves over to the Free Press as a publicist, after working as an associate publicist at Scribner. Samhain Publishing has hired Heather Osborn as editorial director, reporting […]
People, Awards, Etc.
ICM has hired Nick Harris from Mosaic (which he joined last November) as co-head of their book-to-film department, alongside the newly-promoted Josie Freedman, who has been at ICM since 2001. Harris was a partner at Rabineau Wachter Sanford Harris, and prior to that worked at AP Watt. Borders has named Scott Henry as their new evp, chief financial officer, effective today, filling the post vacated by Mark Bierley in August. Henry, 45, has been president of business and financial consulting services firm S.D. Henry Strategic Services, after five years as cfo of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Barnes & Noble has […]
NBA Nominees: The Reviews So Far
We checked our Reviews database at PM to see what kind of full-length reviews the National Book Award fiction and nominees have received so far. Patti Smith leads the pack with 14 reviews, and Peter Carey is the only who is close, though Nicole Krauss will surely garner more reviews soon. Just click to see all the reviews of a given title: FictionPeter Carey’s Parrot & Olivier In America (12)Nicole Krauss’s Great House (5, so far) Plus the Publishers Lunch First Look ReviewLionel Shriver’s So Much for That (13)Karen Tei Yamashita’s I Hotel (3) NonfictionBarbara Demick’s Nothing to Envy: Ordinary […]
People, Etc.: Janklow Hires NYT’s Julie Just, Phaidon’s New CEO, and More
Children’s book editor of the New York Times Book Review Julie Just will join Janklow & Nesbit as an agent in November. Mort Janklow says in the announcement, “It has been our intention for some time to expand the range of agency services we offer to include in a major way children’s and young adult literature.” Lynn Nesbit calls Just “the ideal person to spearhead this new effort.” Phaidon Press, which recently hired Amanda Ridout as managing director, has now appointed David Davies as chief executive officer, starting November 29 and based in London. He is currently managing director at […]