At Avalon Travel, Nikki Ioakimedes is promoted to acquisitions manager for Moon Travel Guides; Kristi Mitsuda becomes editor; Lisi Baldwin moves up to digital production manager; and Ravina Schneider is promoted to production designer. Susan Fissell has joined the Simon & Schuster special markets team as national accounts sales manager. She was previously director of special markets at Hachette Book Group. Former payroll clerk at New Jersey wholesaler Bookazine John M. Cribbin was arrested in February and charged with stealing $34,000 of vacation pay due to other employees over a two-year period, allegedly deposited to his own account with forged […]
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Sasha Quinton joins Barnes & Noble as vp, general merchandise manager, bookstore, reporting to chief merchandising officer Tim Mantel. She has been at Readerlink (and Levy) since 2010, most recently as svp, marketing and procurement. At B&N she will lead publisher relations, adult trade books and newsstand retailing, as well as business partnership objectives and strategies. Sam Bennett joined the company last month as vp, marketing. She was director of brand marketing at Best Buy. Sonali Fry will join the Random House Children’s, as vp, publishing director for classic brands and preschool on March 29. She was most recently most […]
Looking for Buzz
Please note that our seasonal email invitations have gone out to nominate titles for inclusion in the forthcoming Buzz Books 2019: Fall/Winter and Buzz Books 2019: Young Adult Fall/Winter samplers (published right before Book Expo). If you have not received an invitation for any reason, or would like more information about how to participate, please contact Robin Dellabough, robin@publishersmarketplace.com. The deadline for nominations is March 12. Meanwhile, you can continue to enjoy the packed Spring/Summer 2019 editions. (We’ll have a separate call/reminder to flagging your notable titles for our big seasonal previews coming soon, but it’s never too early to get started.)
People: Holt’s EIC Comes From Within
Following the departure of Gillian Blake for Crown Trade in early December, new Holt publisher Ben Schrank has filled the editor-in-chief position from within the company. Executive editor Serena Jones is being promoted to editor in chief. Metropolitan Books publisher and co-founder Sara Bershtel moves up to senior vice president (with Maggie Richards being named a vice president). Schrank notes the Elton John autobiography releases this fall, with the publisher confirming a worldwide publication date of October 15. Publishing director at Penguin Press UK Helen Conford will move to Profile Books in May, where she will take over from Andrew […]
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Tessa Woodward has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow/Avon. At Little, Brown: Alexandra Hoopes has been promoted to assistant editor; Lucy Kim is now art director and Tim Harrington is senior art director; Katharine Myers moves up to director of publicity, Lena Khidritskaya Little becomes associate director of publicity and Alyssa Persons is publicist; and Ashley Marudas is promoted to senior marketing manager. Kathryn Taussig will be promoted to publishing director at Bookouture as of April 23, reporting to Jenny Geras, responsible for recruiting and leading their recently-announced team that will focus on commercial fiction for the US market. […]
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At Grand Central, Alex Logan has been promoted to executive editor; Morgan Hedden to associate editor; Elizabeth Kulhanek to associate editor; Jordan Rubinstein to publicist; Danielle Egnozzi to marketing designer; Estelle Hallick to manager, marketing & publicity, Forever; and Monisha Lakhotia to assistant marketing manager, Forever. Gabriella Mongelli has been promoted to assistant editor at Putnam. Kristen Steele, director of marketing and publisher relations for Baker & Taylor Publisher Services/Bookmasters, will leave the company on March 6. Dan Berkowitz has left his position as digital director at Writers House to open a consultancy, AuthorPop, working with authors on all things […]