Samantha Edelson has been promoted to marketing manager for Macmillan Audio. Mobifusion has hired Michelle Lewy as director of publisher accounts, based in New York. Most recently, she was director of digital media services at Baker and Taylor. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Siena Koncsol has been promoted to publicist. Longtime Reed Exhibitions executive with oversight for BEA, svp Courtney Muller has resigned from her position. BEA show director Steve Rosato notes that Reed had realigned show responsibilities in August and put BEA under the supervision of Greg Topalian, a former BEA show director. Rosato now reports to Topalian. He writes: “On […]
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Webb Younce has joined Thomas Nelson imprint Nelson Books as associate publisher/executive editor, filling the role previously held by Bryan Norman. He and is wife are relocating to Nashville. Most recently he was at Free Press, until it was disbanded as a separate Simon & Schuster unit in 2012. At Fodor’s Travel, Arabella Bowen has been promoted to the newly created position of vp, editor in chief. Skyhorse will launch a new library-focused imprint, Carrel Books, in fall 2014, with an initial list of 20-30 titles annually in categories such as medicine/health, history, biography/memoir, and business/careers. The imprint will be overseen […]
People: New ICM Partners Include Dahl and Joel, and More
ICM Partners has expanded their partnership to encompass 11 more agents. They join the 27 partners who took control of the firm in 2012 after completing a buyout of previous controlling owner Rizvi Traverse Management. Two book publishing agents — Kris Dahl and Jennifer Joel — are among the new partners. (Sloan Harris, Esther Newberg and Amanda Urban were all part of the initial group of partners from last year.) The partners noted in a group statement: “The culture of professionalism, collegiality and teamwork that we enjoy at the agency will continue to grow with the addition of our new […]
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Karrie Witkin will join Abrams on October 21 in the newly created role of editorial director, Gift and Paper Products. Previously she was senior editor and publishing manager for Potter Style. In addition, Maya Bradford has been promoted to publicist, adult trade. At Atria, Sarah Cantin has been promoted to editor. Sulay Hernandez has left Other Press. She can be reached at SulayHernandez.Ed@gmail.com. Random House Children’s Books announced that RJ Palacio‘s WONDER has crossed the 1 million copy sales mark in North America. PGW has added seven more clients to its distribution list, including the Los Angeles Review of Books, Patagonia […]
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Melina Gerosa Bellows has been promoted to publisher of National Geographic Books, adding responsibility for sales, marketing and distribution to her current role as National Geographic’s chief creative officer for Books, Kids and Family. Ken Rhodes has been promoted to managing director, NBN International. Will Lach is joining the American Museum of Natural History as director, licensing and publishing. Previously he was manager of product development, Department of Printed Product, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Ross Harris has been promoted to literary agent. At Harper Children’s, Melissa Miller has been promoted to editor […]
S&S and Yilin Press Partner for Broader Availability of Mandarin-Language Titles
Simon & Schuster has entered into a new distribution and publishing agreement with Yilin Press in China that will expand the availability of electronic editions of works in Mandarin for readers worldwide, while also making works by notable Chinese authors available to English-language audiences. The digital distribution project will launch in November with 300 titles, including Mandarin translations of Yann Martel’s THE LIFE OF PI, THE CORRECTIONS by Jonathan Franzen, UNDERWORLD by Don DeLillo and THE GOLDEN NOTEBOOK by Doris Lessing. In addition, the S&S trade imprint has acquired world English rights to a number of fiction and nonfiction titles […]