Debbie Engel, vp of subsidiary rights at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, will retire as of August 16. Candace Finn has been promoted to director of subsidiary rights. Rosanna Forte will move from Viking UK to Sphere as an editor on August 27, and Callum Kenny will join Sphere from Bloomsbury UK on September 10, with both working on fiction and reporting to fiction publisher Lucy Malagoni, Author N.K. Jemisin will serve as this year’s spokesperson for the ABA’s Indies First campaign (which takes place on American Express Small Business Saturday). Distribution Lonely Planet will move sales, customer service and distribution in the […]
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At Beacon Press, editorial director Gayatri Patnaik will take on the additional role of associate director starting September 1. Amy Caldwell moves up to associate editorial director. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has hired Mike Evans for the new position of chief revenue officer, starting September 16. Most recently chief financial officer at McGraw Hill Education, Evans will “provide holistic leadership across the essential functions of sales, marketing, customer success, technical support and enterprise project management.” Additionally, chief engineering officer Peter George becomes chief technology officer, and chief marketing officer Amy Dunkin was made evp and general manager of Professional Services. Lindsey […]
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Wendi Gu has returned to Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as agent; she spent the last two years at Janklow & Nesbit as associate agent. Sarah Phair has joined SJGA as agent after 6 years at Trident Media Group, and Edward Maxwell has been promoted to agent. Jenny Stephens has been promoted to agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. Olivia Russo will join Penguin Children’s as senior director, publicity on September 3. She was formerly publicity director, Harper Children’s. Rebecca Brewer is no longer at Ace/Berkley, and can be reached at rebeccacbr@gmail.com and Brewereditorialservices.com. Phoebe Morgan will rejoin Harper UK as editorial […]
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At Flatiron, Bryn Clark has been promoted to editor and Sarah Murphy to executive editor. Agnes Ahlander Turner has been promoted to executive vice president at Maria B. Campbell Associates, and Beniamino Ambrosi and Johanna Gustavsson both been named vice president. In the UK, Noel Murphy will join Granta Books and Granta Magazine as commercial director starting September 23. He was previously sales and marketing director at Yale University Press. Imprints Orion will launch Dash, a digital fiction imprint, this fall, run by commissioning editor Victoria Oundjian. Bookselling April Newton (£8.37 an hour), Kimi Wright (£8.71 an hour), Stefan Pace […]
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Sarah Guan has joined Erewhon as editor. She previously worked at Ace, DAW, and Orbit. Martin Cahill joins as marketing and publicity manager. He was previously a literary agent freelancer, publicity and marketing specialist, and fiction writer. Madison Perdue left Amberjack Publishing on August 6. She was serving as acting marketing director, after joining the company in February as executive assistant. Publishing director Justin Mitson said they will hire a successor soon. In the meantime, Mitson told PL that their “publication timeline could be impacted by this change” and they did “hold our production, so we can re-set our efforts.” […]
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Scholastic Trade has hired Hannah Babcock as rights and co-edition manager (she was at Abrams), and Carolyn Seyster has joined Klutz as senior product/toy designer (she was at Viacom/Nickelodeon). In promotions in the trade division: Lauren Donovan is now senior director of publicity; Elisabeth Ferrari moves up to senior publicist; Taylan Salvati becomes publicist; and Jordana Kulak was promoted to publicity coordinator. Carmen Alvarez and Shara Zaval were both promoted to senior marketing manage. At Catapult, Gabrielle Bellot has joined as head instructor of the writing program. Stella Cabot Wilson has been promoted to writing programs coordinator. Leah Pennywark will joined […]