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May 8, 2020By Erin Somers

People, Etc.

May 8, 2020By Erin Somers

Karen Murgolo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial director, lifestyle on May 26. She was most recently an agent at Aevitas Creative Management, after serving as editorial director of Grand Central Life & Style since its inception. Murgolo will oversee the HMH lifestyle and culinary editorial team. At Macmillan Children’s, Hayley Jozwiak has been promoted to senior managing editor; Ilana Worrell to senior production editor; Cassie Gonzalez to designer; and Debbie Cobb to senior coordinator. Marian Wood, former vice president and publisher of Marian Wood Books and Sue Grafton’s longtime editor, died last weekend. She began her career at […]

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May 7, 2020By Erin Somers

People, Etc.

May 7, 2020By Erin Somers

Alexis Nixon has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Berkley. KF Literary Scouting has been appointed adult scout for Hoffman und Campe in Germany, and will also continue scouting children’s and YA titles for Harper Germany. Relief The extended #SaveIndieBookstores campaign raised a total of $1.24 million. Events Book Expo said it will hold an extensive line-up of panels online May 26-29, including its Adult Buzz Panel and its Adult and Children’s Book Breakfasts (which have been moved to dinner time), and a number of BookCon virtual consumer events will follow over the weekend. More information will be announced soon. Meanwhile, we […]

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May 6, 2020By Michael Cader

Books-A-Million Says It Reopened “The Majority” of Their Stores

May 6, 2020By Michael Cader

With the biggest concentration of its stores in the South, Books-A-Million announced Wednesday that it “has opened the majority of its stores to customers following local guidelines for safe and secure shopping.” Ceo Terrance G. Finley says in the announcement: “We are extremely appreciative of the support we have received from our customers during these difficult times.” He added, “Now that we are able to welcome our customers back to the stores in time for Mother’s Day, our booksellers stand ready to share the rich assortment of new books and products that we have been curating over the past weeks.” […]

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April 30, 2020By Erin Somers

People, Etc.

April 30, 2020By Erin Somers

Sally Kim has been promoted to senior vice president, publisher, Putnam. Christine Ball becomes senior vice president, publisher, Berkley and Dutton. Ashley McClay and Alexis Welby at Putnam will now report to Kim. At Simon & Schuster, Greg Andonian has been promoted to director, customer financial services reporting to Deepak Daswani, vice president and controller. Karyn Basso has been promoted to director, order management and customer service, reporting to Chris Wagner, vice president, operations and distribution services. Joy Harjo was appointed to a second term as poet laureate, announced by the Library of Congress. In the UK, Jocasta Hamilton will […]

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April 29, 2020By Erin Somers

People, Etc.

April 29, 2020By Erin Somers

Colleen Suljic has joined Princeton University Press in the newly created role of chief digital marketing strategist. She was most recently western region senior manager at McGraw-Hill. Sarah Knight has been promoted to UK adult sales director at Bloomsbury Publishing. Sally Wilks joins as UK children’s sales director. She was previously with HarperCollins Children’s. At Bastei Luebbe in Germany, Joachim Herbst will join the company earlier than previously announced as CFO, in early August, and he will become spokesman of the management board at the annual meeting on September 15, when ceo Carel Halff will relinquish his executive responsibilities. Supply Chain […]

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April 28, 2020By Michael Cader

Endeavor Looks to Raise More Capital, Judge Pares Screenwriters’ Suit, and More

April 28, 2020By Michael Cader

As Endeavor starts informing roughly a third of its staff about who is fired, furloughed and/or set for working half-time, the company is also looking to raise another $250 million in financing to help it through the pandemic, the NY Post reports. In the meantime, Moody’s joined S&P Global Ratings in downgrading Endeavor’s considerable debt load to “negative” since their “liquidity position is projected to deteriorate until the impact of the coronavirus subsides.” In other agency news, California US District Court Judge Andre Birotte Jr. dismissed some of the Writers Guild antitrust claims against the big Hollywood agencies in the […]

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