Roberto Torres is joining Harper Mexico as general manager. Torres was most recently with Macmillan Education, where he served for seven years as regional marketing director and sales director for Mexico. Honors Joy Harjo has been named the 23rd US Poet Laureate, succeeding Tracy K. Smith in the fall. Harjo will be the first Native American to hold the position. Acquisitions Rowman & Littlefield acquired Prometheus Books, the Amherst, NY publisher of popular science, critical thinking, philosophy, history books, and more. Trade titles published under the Prometheus Books imprint will become part of Globe Pequot, while titles published under the […]
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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 […]
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Goodreads co-founder and editor in chief Elizabeth Khuri Chandler has “decided to move on to my next chapter” after 12 years with the company. Larisa Helena joined Callisto Media as foreign rights manager. (She was a subsidiary rights manager at Pippin Properties.) In honor of Bob Bernstein‘s remarkable life and legacy, the Bernstein family has arranged for a celebration of life event on Tuesday, June 25t from 6:00-8:30 PM, at the Lighthouse at Chelsea Piers. They ask that you please RSVP to BernsteinRSVPJune25@gmail.com if you are able to attend. Distribution Two Rivers will handle sales and distribution as of August […]
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Colleen Boyle has been promoted to publicity manager at Penguin Press. Morgan Rath has been promoted to publicist at Macmillan Children’s. Steven Tran has been promoted to sales manager at Soho Press. Books Inc. director of operations Andy Perham will take over as president and ceo when Michael Tucker retires later this year, and operations manager George Seamer will move up to director of operations. Publicist and book marketer Claire McKinney has founded Plum Bay Publishing, providing assisted self-publishing and some traditional publishing. Hachette Book Group announced a number of promotions in its sales department. In wholesale, Julie Hernandez is promoted […]
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Longtime Knopf editor-at-large Gary Fisketjon “was dismissed for a breach of company policy,” a spokesperson confirmed to PL. Fisketjon was initially suspended, and then dismissed following an investigation. The publisher is in the process of informing his authors and their agents. Knopf staff say they were notified earlier this week. BuzzFeed published the results of an “extensive, yearlong” investigation of author and speaker Tony Robbins that “reveals how Robbins has berated abuse victims and subjected his followers to unorthodox and potentially dangerous techniques. And former female fans and staffers have accused him of inappropriate sexual advances.” The story includes accounts […]
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Welbeck Publishing Group is starting a commercial fiction imprint, Portland Press, launching in 2020 and focusing on crime, thrillers, romance and women’s fiction. Jon Elek will be lead the line as group publisher, fiction after 10 years as an agent, most recently at United Agents. Ali Hammond has joined the publisher relations team at BookBub, as the account manager for audiobook publishers on their new audio platform, Chirp. Forthcoming A Spanish-language edition of Michael Wolff‘s just announced new book — published as Asedio: Trump en el punto de mira — will be ready on June 4 as an ebook, and […]