Kim Gray has joined Sourcebooks as director of sales – mass and special markets. She most recently was vp/director of sales for Reader’s Digest/Trusted Media Brands. At Little, Brown, Elora Weil was promoted to associate publicist (she has been supporting the Spark and Voracious teams), and Erinn McGrath moved up to director of publicity and marketing, James Patterson. At Little, Brown Children’s, Marisa Russell joins the company as executive director, publicity on June 24. She was publicity director at Penguin Children’s. Siena Koncsol has been promoted to associate director, publicity. Little Brown UK has been clearer than Dutton in the […]
Awards
People, Etc.
At Simon & Schuster, Doug Stambaugh has been promoted to vp, director, strategic operations and business development, reporting to Dennis Elau. He will lead, integrate and coordinate efforts domestically as well as globally in support of business initiatives, future growth and day-to-day operations. Newly reporting to Stambaugh are Joe Bulger (vp, business development) and Frank Nunez (vp, business operations). Patrice Caldwell has joined Howard Morhaim Literary Agency as an agent. She is the founder of People of Color in Publishing and was an associate editor at Disney-Hyperion. At Macmillan, Malati Chavali is being promoted to the new role of vp, […]
Taddeo’s Three Women Tops July Indie Next List
Lisa Taddeo’s Three Women, the debut book from Avid Reader Press, is the No. Indie Next pick for July. The rest of the list, including three titles excerpted in Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer, marked with an asterisk, is as follows: *Stay and Fight, by Madeline ffitch The Most Fun We Ever Had, by Claire Lombardo Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss by Margaret Renkl Evvie Drake Starts Over, by Linda Holmes The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, by Abbi Waxman The Travelers, by Regina Porter The Need, by Helen Phillips The Lightest Object in the Universe, by […]
People, Etc.
Lisa Erickson has joined Harper Perennial and Harper paperbacks as marketing director. She was previously at Crown. Jon Michael Darga has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent. He was previously an assistant editor at Crown. Madeline Jones has been promoted to associate editor at Holt. Sophie Christopher, 28, senior publicity manager at Transworld in the UK and co-founder of The FLIP, died from a suspected aneurysm on Monday. Transworld managing director Larry Finlay told the Bookseller that her colleagues were “in a state of shock.” He noted, “It’s always devastating when any colleague dies – losing someone so young, so full of life and […]
People, Etc.: Wein to Avid Reader, and More
Lauren Wein will join Avid Reader Press as editorial director on June 24, where she will acquire both fiction and nonfiction, and will oversee a fiction program for the new imprint. She has been executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Erin M. Berger will join Scholastic Trade as senior vice president of marketing, starting June 17. Most recently she was vp, creative marketing director at Penguin Children’s. Sue Berger Ramin will join Brandeis University Press in the newly created position of director, starting July 1. She was previously associate publisher at David R. Godine. Stephanie Winter has been promoted to […]
June Picks
Sarah Heywood’s THE CACTUS is the Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick for June. N.K. Jemisin’s THE FIFTH SEASON was selected by the PBS NewsHour-New York Times club, Now Read This. Separately, the NYT names 12 books for June. Amazon‘s Spotlight Pick for June is Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls and their Featured Debut is Formation by Ryan Leigh Dostie. Also on the list are Tan France’s Naturally Tan and Ocean Vuong’s On Earth Were Briefly Gorgeous, both excerpted and available for download in our Buzz Books 2019 Spring/Summer sampler. The rest of their June picks: Ask Again, Yes, by Mary Beth […]