Pronoy Sarkar has been promoted to editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Allison Sundstrom has been promoted to associate art director, children’s at Sourcebooks. Nicole Lyons has been promoted to manager of operations at Wayside Publishing. Events The ALA has announced that its 2021 Midwinter Meeting, scheduled for January 22-26 in Indianapolis, will take place…
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Publisher of Harper Business Hollis Heimbouch has been promoted to senior vice president. Beth Bugler has been promoted to creative director at The Experiment. At Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull, Lena Moses-Schmitt and Sarah Jean Grimm have each been promoted to senior publicity manager. Westwood Creative Artists has formed a management committee “to ensure the continued success and…
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Jessica Regel has left Foundry Literary + Media to start her own agency, Helm Literary. Sasha White has been promoted to assistant agent at Tobias Literary Agency, seeking adult fiction, YA, political/historical non-fiction, memoirs, and world literature in translation. At the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, Kate Weiss has been promoted to programs manager. They will fill her previous…
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Desiree Wilson has joined the Bent Agency as an agent. Wilson was a freelance literary consultant and previously worked as an editor at Oni Press. At Aevitas Creative Management, Karen Brailsford joins as consulting agent and Georgia Frances King as agent. Brailsford has been a writer and editor at People, among other publications. King was most recently ideas editor…
(Lots of) New Books Publishing August 4
Between rescheduled spring titles and early releases ahead of the presidential election, August is the new September this year. Jeff Kinney’s rescheduled Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure and Stephenie Meyer’s long-awaited Midnight Sun both land today. And so does Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (her first book since the 2010 Pulitzer-winning The…
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Mensah Demary has been promoted to executive editor at the Catapult Book Group. Tori Sharp has been promoted to associate literary agent at the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency. Eugenia Pakalik is joining McNally Jackson Books as general manager at the Prince Street store. Most recently she was director of trade sales at Chronicle Books….