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Taylor & Francis has hired Annie Callanan to take over as ceo, succeeding Roger Horton. Most recently ceo of healthcare company Quantros, Callanan had been ceo at Bowker and chief operating officer at ProQuest. Shigenori Hamaguchi has joined HarperCollins Japan in the new position of publishing director, reporting to Frank Foley. Most recently, he was editor-in-chief for Elle Decor Japan. Kristi Smith has been promoted to director of marketing for Thomas Nelson’s W Publishing Group. Carol Burrell has joined Workman Children’s as senior editor. Most recently, she was a freelancer, with prior experience as the editorial director for Graphic Universe, the […]

Benjamin Steinberg will join Dey Street Books in the newly created role of associate publisher. Previously, he was director of partnerships and imprint consumer marketing for Knopf Doubleday. Gayley Avery has joined Bonnier Publishing USA as director of marketing and publicity for Little Bee Books and Weldon Owen. Previously, she was marketing director for Scholastic. The NYT looks at “qualms and questions” over the release of Curtis Dawkins‘ debut collection The Graybar Hotel from Scribner this week. An MFA grad of Western Michigan University, Dawkins is serving a life sentence without parole for murder. (His low-six-figure advance goes into an education fund for his children.) Director […]

In the UK, former president and coo of Parragon Paul Gregory will become chief executive of Bonnier UK’s Igloo Books Group, on September 11, reporting to Perminder Mann. Abby Ranger, formerly senior editor for HarperCollins Children’s has left to launch editorial freelance business Abby Ranger Editorial. Picks The Costco Pennie’s Pick for July is Kiss Carlo by Adriana Trigiani. Bookselling Miami’s Bookstore in the Grove, which was headed for closure earlier in June, remains open as owner Felice Dubin is “in discussions with a potential new owner to take over the store.” Most inventory is on sale. Penguin Random House’s Signature Views posted a five-minute “mini-doc” shot as […]

At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, editorial director, lifestyle Deb Brody has been promoted to vp, editor-in-chief. (She joined the company a little under a year ago.) In her new role she “will expand her oversight and editorial work across the lifestyle and general interest teams,” adding oversight for Alex Littlefield and a to-be-hired senior editor. Publisher Bruce Nichols notes that the lifestyle group has broadened its program and “there has been increasing overlap with general interest nonfiction,” so “the two groups will work together more closely.” Helen Atsma remains in charge of the fiction program as editorial director, fiction, and senior team members Rick […]