Kathleen Doherty, vp and publisher, Tor Teen & Starscape will retire on June 14, after 34 years with Tor/Forge. Doherty joined the company in 1985 to start the special sales department, eventually launching Tor Classics, Tor Kids, and more. After she leaves, senior editors Susan Chang and Melissa Frain and editor Ali Fisher will report to Fritz Foy until a successor is named. At Arcadia Publishing, Christen Thompson rejoins the company on April 29 in the new position of director of special projects. (She is also the co-owner of the North Charleston bookstore, Itinerate Literate, which opened last year.) And […]
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Susan Dobinick has been promoted to senior editor, nonfiction at Bloomsbury Children’s. Jen Monroe has been promoted to editor at Berkley. Emma Benshoff joins Random House Children’s as associate publicist. She previously worked for Random House Publishing Group as publicity assistant. Megan McLaughlin has been promoted to associate art director for Dr. Seuss and Beginner Books. At HMH, Marina Padakis has been promoted to senior managing editor and Kristin Brodeur has been promoted to managing editor, digital formats. Stephanie Guerdan and Carolina Ortiz have both been promoted to assistant editor at Harper Children’s. Founding publisher of Tricycle Press Nicole Geiger […]
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Alyssa Miele has been promoted to editor at Harper Children’s. Stephanie Hess has joined Orbit as graphic designer, marketing. She was previously at Penguin Random House. Trisha Ping has rejoined BookPage, as publisher and editor-in-chief. Previously managing editor at the publication, Ping spent the last two years as destination editor for the Eastern United States at Lonely Planet. Science fiction writer Gene Wolfe, 87, author of The New Book of the Sun, has died. Book Clubs The LAT will start a book club this summer, under the direction of Donna Wares, focused “on books and authors relevant to Southern California […]
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Rob Wall has been promoted to art director at Little Bee Books. At Open Road Media, Sarah Mangiola has been promoted to executive editor, content strategy; Carolyn Cox to managing editor content strategy; Catherine Phelan to senior editor; Olivia Mason to audience development manager; Amanda Yee to director of email production; and Amanda Shaffer to senior designer. Eric Meyer has joined as metadata specialist and Mike Wynne as customer acquisition manager for Early Bird Books. Sammy Brown has been promoted to publicist at HMH Children’s. Marissa Page has joined HMH as publicity associate. She previously worked as a journalist. Awards National Book […]
LA Times Book Prize Winners: Makkai, Laymon, Thompson-Spires, and More
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize announced winners in eleven categories on Friday night. Next up is the Pulitzers, to be announced Monday afternoon at 3. The LAT winners include: Fiction Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers (Viking) Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Heads of the Colored People (37 Ink) Biography David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass (Simon & Schuster) Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose Kiese Laymon, Heavy (Scribner) Current Interest Francisco Cantú, The Line Becomes a River (Riverhead) Graphic Novel/Comics Tillie Walden, On a Sunbeam (First Second) History Julia Boyd, Travelers In The Third Reich (Pegasus) Mystery/Thriller Oyinkan Braithwaite, […]
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Aly Mostel will join Harper One on April 18 as director of marketing, reporting to Laina Adler. She was senior director of communications at Rodale Books, and then worked as an independent marketing consultant. Julia Kent has been promoted to associate director of marketing, now reporting to Mostel. Carolyn Davidson has been promoted to marketing coordinator, supporting both Mostel and Kent. In the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt sales department, Michael Harrigan has been promoted to executive director, Amazon; James Phirman to executive director of special sales; Emily Logan to national account manager; and Carissa Ray to sales manager. Additionally, Pilar Garcia-Brown […]