Helen Atsma will join Ecco as vp, editorial director on December 2, reporting to Daniel Halpern and filling the position vacated recently by Megan Lynch. She has been editorial director, fiction at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kelly O’Connor Lonesome is joining Tom Doherty Associates as senior editor for Nightfire. She was previously at Orbit, though for the last two years she has been a Bay Area bookseller and at the University of California. Ashley Gilliam has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Scribner. Amy Habayeb has been promoted to associate director, subsidiary rights at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Emily Osborn has […]
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Heather Kelly has joined Abrams Children’s as senior designer. Previously she was senior designer at Sterling Children’s. At HG Literary, Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts was promoted to vp, foreign rights, and Rhea Lyons was named director, film/TV rights. Controversial Nobel prize laureate Peter Handke‘s originating publisher Suhrkamp prepared a lengthy document, “intended mainly for the benefit of foreign publishers of Handke’s work who had found themselves, like Suhrkamp, in an uncomfortable position as a result of Handke’s record of downplaying Serb atrocities against Muslims in the Bosnia war.” But “Suhrkamp’s rambling defense has not received positive reviews from” the German and Austrian […]
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Tammy Cabot has been promoted to vp & director, specialty retail sales at Penguin Random House, to lead a newly unified cross-company specialty retail effort, serving non-book retailers of all sizes and interests. Tiffany Liao has been promoted to senior editor at Holt Children’s. Carrie Hannigan and Josh Getzler have renamed their agency Hannigan Getzler Literary, following the departure in September of co-founding partner Jesseca Salky. At least 10 people were laid off at Bustle, including senior books editor Cristina Arreola. Washington Post book critic and associate editor Carlos Lozada was elected to the Pulitzer Prize board (as was New Yorker editor […]
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Damon Reiss moves over to become vp and publisher for W Publishing, reporting to Don Jacobson. He has been senior director for Harper Christian’s custom and backlist program as well as Christian bookstore key accounts and distributor channels. Bookseller PK Sindwani joined the American Booksellers Association this week as chief financial officer. He was the owner of Towne Book Center & Cafe in Collegeville, PA for 29 years. Nica Carrillo is leaving her position as marketing and sales manager of Coffee House Press on November 15. She will join Epsilon Agency as a client account executive. Marit Swanson, succeeds her […]
People: Anne Messitte to Leave Vintage/Anchor, and More
Anne Messitte, executive vice president, Knopf Doubleday and publisher, Vintage/Anchor, will leave the company in December, with no indication of what is next for her, “forced out amid a company restructuring” as the AP puts it. Knopf says the change is about bringing “alignment between our group hardcover and paperback publishing programs, as well as more group efficiencies,” after Vintage/Anchor had “essentially been operating as an autonomous arm of our publishing group.” Messitte has led Vintage/Anchor for 20 years, and launched Vintage Español in 1994, among other ventures — notably including her acquisition of the Fifty Shades trilogy. Chairman and […]
People, Etc.: Folio Acquires Emma Sweeney Agency, and More
Folio Literary Management has acquired and will continue the business of Emma Sweeney Agency, effective January 2, 2019. Sweeney says in the announcement, “I’ve enjoyed a very rewarding 37 years in book publishing and am grateful for the life it’s given me, as well as the wonderful friendships. The decision to move on has been made easier knowing my clients will have the full support of Folio, an agency I have long admired, and where I’m sure ESA clients will feel at home.” Margaret Sutherland Brown will continue on with Folio working with Sweeney’s clients. Sweeney was an agent at Harold […]