Brenda Bowen will join The Book Group as senior agent, with a mission to grow the agency’s children’s business, particularly middle-grade fiction and picture books, starting July 1. She has been at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates since 2009. At Portfolio/Sentinel, Tara Gilbride was promoted to vp, director of marketing and publicity, following the departure of longtime deputy publisher and marketing director Will Weisser. Margot Stamas moves up to director of publicity; Alyssa Adler is now publicist; and Madeline Montgomery was promoted to marketing coordinator. Anna Montague has been promoted to associate editor on the creative development team at Harper Collins. Scott Hatfill […]
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Hachette Book Group, IPG Add Distribution Programs for Indies; Pottermore Moves to New Warner JV, and More
The steady stream continues of publishers offering programs to encourage independent booksellers to order directly, following Baker & Taylor‘s announcement on May 1 that they will withdraw from trade wholesaling. The latest announcements are from Hachette Book Group and Independent Publishers Group. Under the HBG plan, any independent bookstore who does not already have an HBG account can participate, with August 30 as the deadline for the first order. Benefits include: expedited account set-up; no minimum quantity on the bookstore’s initial order; expedited credit approval; additional discounts; and more. HBG evp group sales director Alison Lazarus said in the release, […]
People, Etc.
Emily Krump has been promoted to executive editor at the William Morrow Group. Annie Chagnot has been promoted to senior editor at The Dial Press. Mitchell Waters joins Brandt & Hochman as a senior agent beginning May 13. He was previously at Curtis Brown. Kat Kerr has joined Donald Maass Literary Agency as agent. She was previously at Corvisiero Literary Agency. After a brief stretch at David Godwin Associates, former John Murray publishing director Eleanor Birne has moved to PEW Literary as associate agent. Hal Hlavinka has rejoined Community Bookstore in Brooklyn as event director, off-site programming. He was most recently […]
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At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Tatyana Rosalia has been promoted to senior production associate for Margaret K. McElderry Books and Atheneum; and Morgan York to associate production editor for S&S Children’s and Paula Wiseman Books. Kate Prosswimmer has joined Margaret K. McElderry Books as editor. She was previously associate editor at Sourcebooks. Courtney Payne has been promoted to associate director of trade sales at Chronicle Books. Ian Delaney has been promoted to associate sales manager. Cengage has promoted Rebecca McNamara to the new position of chief integration officer, reporting directly to CEO Michael Hansen, leading all integration initiatives for the company’s […]
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Pippa Wright joins Orion Spring this summer as publishing director, reporting to publisher Amanda Harris. She was previously rights director at Cornerstone. Becky Odell has been promoted to publicist at Dutton. Liz Gately is now scouting for Horizon in China. Reviews The San Francisco Chronicle‘s new contributing books editor Patrick Thomas explains how books are selected for review: “Simply put: Trust in the collective wisdom of the books community. Every week this will include personal correspondence with Bay Area booksellers, writers from here and around the world, and global publishing house executives, as well as consulting prepublication reviews that librarians […]
Reese’s Book Club Explores A Subscription Box
Content platform Hello Sunshine, home of Reese Witherspoon’s wildly successful book club, is considering a subscription box offering. Tech Crunch was the first to notice that a survey sent to Hello Sunshine’s email list April 16 included several box-focused questions. The 43-question survey, appropriately incentivized with a contest to win a book box, asks readers what subscriptions they already receive; what matters most in a subscription, with 12 options that include personalization, saving money, and “a box full of surprises”; and how they prefer to pay for subscriptions. It also asks how social impact affects readers’ buying decisions, one of […]