At Berkley, Jen Monroe has been promoted to associate editor. Lily Choi and Grace House have both been promoted to assistant editor. Cassie Gonzales has joined Farrar, Straus Children’s and Roaring Brook Press as associate designer. Previously, she was assistant designer at Little, Brown Children’s. Proposals Creator of the “Sh—y Media Men” list Moira Donegan has a book proposal “following in…
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Brandi Larsen will leave DK, where she was most recently vp, publishing, on June 22 to relocate to Cleveland, Ohio, where she will focus her time on coaching and her personal passion for writing. She may be reached at brandilarsen@gmail.com. At Random House Children’s, Dani Valladares has joined as editor for the Rodale Kids imprint. She was previously associate…
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Dan Vidra has joined HarperCollins as associate director on the international sales team, managing US division sales in the open market. He replaces Alison Smith, who took over closed market sales. Vidra had a long career in international book sales, and worked for txtr and its various successor companies for the past six years. Julia Kardon has…
Reimagination Brought About 35 New Bookstores to Book Expo, and More News from the ABA
The reimagined Book Expo, mission focused on “what the booksellers have said they need to do business at the show” and armed with regional scholarships for each bookselling region has yielded…35 more ABA member stores represented at the show, ABA ceo Oren Teicher said. (Book Expo officials had said, “Our goal is to bring more…
Riggio Opens Book Expo, “Reimagined” As A Show About Physical Booksellers
I imagine that if you spend much time at Book Expo over the next three days, you’re going to get pretty tired of hearing the word “reimagined” as that theme is repeated everywhere possible. Today’s reimagined mini-show floor, billed as focused on business to business exhibits, pretty much feels like Ingram Day (and remainders). Ingram’s…
ABA Membership Rolls Grow Again
In advance of Book Expo, the American Booksellers Association told the AP that the organization added 78 members in the last year, growing to 1,835 members overall. Members store locations totaled 2,470, an increase of 149 from a year ago. That follows a quieter year, in which core membership had declined by 18 and member…