Megan Lynch will join Flatiron Books as senior vice president, publisher, starting November 4. She has been vice president and editorial director of Ecco for the past three years. Lynch fills the role recently vacated by Amy Einhorn when she moved over to become president and publisher of Holt. Bob Miller, president of Flatiron, said…
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New Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk will appear at tomorrow’s Frankfurt Book Fair opening press conference to “talk about the political responsibility of authors.” At Simon & Schuster: Karen Fink has been promoted to field account manager, Lauren Castner moves up to manager, special markets, and Taylor Kwok is now coordinator, special markets. Chris White has…
Bookseller Allison Hill to Become New ABA Chief Executive
American Booksellers Association president Jamie Fiocco announced Friday that Allison K. Hill will take over as ceo of the organization on March 1. She has been president and CEO of Vroman’s Bookstore, in Pasadena, CA. She will succeed Oren Teicher, who is retiring after 10 years of the leading the ABA. The association’s senior program…
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Alisse Goldsmith-Wissman has joined Independent Publishers Group as publicity manager. She was previously at InterVarsity Press. Janet Potter has been promoted to events and marketing manager at Independent Publishers Group. At Macmillan Children’s, Melissa Zar has been promoted to associate director, marketing; Johanna Kirby to senior marketing manager; and Jordin Streeter to marketing coordinator. Tim…
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Lara Jones has been promoted to associate editor at Emily Bestler Books. Megan Rudloff has been promoted to associate publicist at Atria. Conor Mintzer joins Holt as associate editor. He was most recently at Flatiron Books. Sylvie Carr has founded The Carr Agency. She was previously an agent at Fletcher & Company. Idea Architects has…
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Rakia Clark has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior editor. She was most recently senior editor at Beacon Press. Mabel Hsu has been promoted to editor at Katherine Tegen Books. Stephanie Cooper has joined Dutton and Plume as marketing director. She was previously marketing director at Harper Collins. Maria Whelan has joined Princeton University Press…