Susan Dobinick has joined Boyds Mills Press as senior editor. She was previously with Bloomsbury Children’s. Diane Mangan has joined Andrews McMeel as children’s marketing director, based in Chicago and reporting to vice president, publishing sales Lynne McAdoo. Most recently she led the team at Follett that curated school book fairs. Emily Nemens is stepping…
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Matt Hooban has been promoted to communications director at Hachette Book Group. At Hachette Books, Hachette Go, and Legacy Lit, Terri Sirma has been promoted to senior designer and Quinn Fariel has been promoted to senior marketing manager. Alison Dalafave becomes assistant editor, Hachette Go, and Carrie Napolitano associate editor, Hachette Books. At Abrams Children’s, Emily…
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Sally Howe and Sarah Goldberg have been promoted to editor at Scribner. Rebekah Jett has been promoted to assistant editor, while continuing her role as associate publishing manager. Mensah Demary has been promoted to editor-in-chief for Soft Skull. Ada Zhang will join Running Press as an associate editor on March 8. Zhang was previously at Sterling Children’s….
New Books Publishing March 2
This week brings new fiction from Kazuo Ishiguro, Sister Souljah, and Danielle Steel, as well as four titles that were featured in our Buzz Books: Gregory Brown’s The Lowering Days, Viet Thanh Nguyen’s The Committed, Sarah Penner’s The Lost Apothecary, and Safia Elhillo’s Home Is Not a Country (YA). Meanwhile, Isabel Allende and Anne Lamott anchor the week’s…
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David Graham has joined Quarto Group UK as ceo. He was previously managing director of Pavillion Books. Zana Hanks becomes Pavillion’s acting managing director, with Quarto selling and distributing Pavillion (via Hachette Books) starting March 29. Graham told The Bookseller, “I am very excited to be joining the Quarto Group UK at this pivotal time…
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Bill Hamilton will join Celadon Books as executive editor, starting April 5, where he will acquire “nonfiction with a focus on politics and history.” He was most recently Washington editor at The New York Times. Nathalie Le Du has been promoted to publisher of Odd Dot, reporting to Jen Besser, president of Macmillan Children’s Publishing. Newly reporting to Le…