Tom Miller has joined Liza Dawson Associates as senior agent. He spent the last three years at Carol Mann Agency. Maggie Haas has joined Chronicle Books as website and ecommerce coordinator. Previously she helped manage the SFMOMA online store. Tyrus Books founder and former publisher Ben LeRoy will serve as executive director of the Independent Publishers Caucus (IPC) on a part-time basis. IPC aims to “foster a true and mutually beneficial sense of community among independent publishers, between publishers and booksellers, and with readers.” They note that steering committee (comprising Ibrahim Ahmad at Akashic, Terrie Akers at Other Press, Jon […]
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Lynn Kovach has been promoted to vice president, director of national accounts, Random House Adult, newly overseeing sales for the division and PRH Audio to Books-A-Million and Barnes & Noble. Stephen Hull will join the University of New Mexico Press as director on September 17, also serving as a professor of practice in publishing for UNM’s College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences. Previously he spent nine years at Dartmouth College as editor and publisher at the University Press of New England. Zoe Nelson will join Janklow & Nesbit UK in September as rights director, after eight years at Rogers, Coleridge and […]
Briefs: Skyhorse Distribution Moves to S&S
Simon & Schuster will distribute Skyhorse in the US and most markets around the world starting January 1, 2019. Previously, it was distributed by Two Rivers Distribution/Ingram Publishers Services. Skyhorse will continue to be distributed in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son and in South Africa by Peter Hyde & Associates. Skyhorse president and publisher Tony Lyons said in the announcement: “With our increasingly commercial list, we think this new association with Simon & Schuster is a perfect fit for Skyhorse. Their commitment to and expertise in delivering first-rate distribution services will provide a critical framework for further growth.” He also […]
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Lauren Lauzon has been promoted to marketing associate at William Morrow. At Coffee House Press, Nica Carrillo has been promoted to marketing and sales manager. Mandy Medley has been promoted to publicity director. In Italy, Francesco Anzelmo has been promoted to publishing director of the Mondadori flagship imprint. Awards John Irving has won the 2018 Ambassador Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award, honoring “writers whose works use the power of literature to foster peace, social justice, and global understanding.” The award will be presented at Dayton Literary Peace Prize gala on October 28. Imprints Joel Fotinos‘s new line will be called […]
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Vanessa Vazquez has been promoted to executive director of client sales services at Hachette Book Group. Sanford J. Greenburger Associates has been appointed children’s and YA scout for V&R Editoras in Latin America and Brazil. Emanuela Anechoum joins Europa Editions/Edizioni EO in the new position of international rights manager, based Rome. She was rights manager at Blake Friedman. Sold Australian trade magazine Books+Publishing has been sold by ProQuest’s Thorpe-Bowker to general manager Gary Pengelly, who will operate through the new company Books and Publishing Pty Ltd. He said: “The opportunity to be custodian of an iconic Australian publishing industry brand was irresistible and I must […]
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Awards After the postponement of the 2018 Nobel prize for literature in May, 100 Swedish writers, actors, journalists and other cultural figures have formed an organization called the New Academy, which will award its own prize this fall. A statement on their website says, “We have founded The New Academy to remind people that literature and culture at large should promote democracy, transparency, empathy and respect, without privilege, bias arrogance or sexism.” The academy has asked Sweden’s librarians to nominate authors from anywhere in the world, with the stipulation that they have written at least two books, one of which was published […]