Brenda Bowen will join The Book Group as senior agent, with a mission to grow the agency’s children’s business, particularly middle-grade fiction and picture books, starting July 1. She has been at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates since 2009. At Portfolio/Sentinel, Tara Gilbride was promoted to vp, director of marketing and publicity, following the departure of longtime deputy publisher and marketing director Will Weisser. Margot Stamas moves up to director of publicity; Alyssa Adler is now publicist; and Madeline Montgomery was promoted to marketing coordinator. Anna Montague has been promoted to associate editor on the creative development team at Harper Collins. Scott Hatfill […]
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The Latest Big Buzz Books Fall/Winter Sampler, Just in Time for Book Expo
With Book Expo just two weeks away, today we launch Buzz Books 2019: Fall/Winter and the companion Buzz Books 2019 Young Adult: Fall/Winter. As usual, the samplers are the best way to prepare for the convention and the publishing season ahead, with more than 50 substantial pre-publication excerpts from major authors, as well as breakout and discovery books from across the publishing landscape. Twenty of our featured authors will appear at Book Expo, including three of the show’s featured Editor’s Buzz selections. And as our eight-year history of Buzz Books samplers has shown, you will be seeing many of these titles on the […]
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Nicole Bond will join Atria Books on May 28 as vp, director of subsidiary rights, reporting to Libby McGuire. She was director, subsidiary rights working on the Grand Central, Hachette Nashville, and Hachette Books divisions. At Doubleday, Lauren Weber has been named associate director of marketing and Michael Goldsmith has been named associate director of publicity. Joy Fowlkes has joined Timbuktu Labs, publisher and packager of the Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, as managing editor. She was formerly head of content at MentorBox. Craig Teicher will join The Paris Review as digital director on May 28. He has been director of […]
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Emily Krump has been promoted to executive editor at the William Morrow Group. Annie Chagnot has been promoted to senior editor at The Dial Press. Mitchell Waters joins Brandt & Hochman as a senior agent beginning May 13. He was previously at Curtis Brown. Kat Kerr has joined Donald Maass Literary Agency as agent. She was previously at Corvisiero Literary Agency. After a brief stretch at David Godwin Associates, former John Murray publishing director Eleanor Birne has moved to PEW Literary as associate agent. Hal Hlavinka has rejoined Community Bookstore in Brooklyn as event director, off-site programming. He was most recently […]
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At St. Martin’s Eileen Rothschild has been promoted to executive editor and Alexandra Sehulster to editor. Michael Leali has joined Sourcebooks as marketing specialist. He most recently was the children’s department manager at Anderson’s Bookshop in La Grange, Illinois. London-based Daniela Schlingmann Literary Scouting is now scouting for People’s Press in Copenhagen. Forthcoming Reese Witherspoon continues to build her efforts in publishing, unfortunately to the exclusive benefit of Audible and Amazon. Her production company Hello Sunshine announced their first three Audible Originals: Music-industry veteran Sophia Chang’s Baddest Bitch in the Room, judge Rosemarie Aquilina’s Magnificent Things, and comedian-activist Maysoon Zayid’s […]
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At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Tatyana Rosalia has been promoted to senior production associate for Margaret K. McElderry Books and Atheneum; and Morgan York to associate production editor for S&S Children’s and Paula Wiseman Books. Kate Prosswimmer has joined Margaret K. McElderry Books as editor. She was previously associate editor at Sourcebooks. Courtney Payne has been promoted to associate director of trade sales at Chronicle Books. Ian Delaney has been promoted to associate sales manager. Cengage has promoted Rebecca McNamara to the new position of chief integration officer, reporting directly to CEO Michael Hansen, leading all integration initiatives for the company’s […]