Former Crown Publishing Group president and publisher Maya Mavjee will join Macmillan on March 1 in the new role of president, publishing strategy, reporting to ceo John Sargent. Mavjee will work closely with Sargent, coo Andrew Weber (formerly of Random House), and president of Macmillan US Don Weisberg (formerly of Random House and Penguin Children’s) on “all aspects of publishing across the company, with a focus on publishing strategy and the overall growth and development of its programs.” Sargent says in the announcement, “Maya brings a wealth of experience to this new role and will have a broad mandate. She […]
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Theresa Park and Celeste Fine have joined together to form a new literary agency, Park & Fine Literary and Media, combining the existing Park Literary & Media with Fine’s roster of clients and a number of her colleagues from Sterling Lord. They will jointly run the agency as co-founders and partners. Coming over with Fine, who was vice president at Sterling Lord and worked there for seven years, are John Maas (who is executive director, editorial development and strategy), Sarah Passick (as executive director, new business and relationships), and agents Jaidree Braddix and Anna Petkovich. Anna Michels has been promoted to editorial […]
A Last Chance to Save
A lot of people like to sign up for PublishersMarketplace.com membership early in the year, so as an experiment we left our “anniversary” promotion code valid for longer than usual — but the end is coming. You have until January 15 to use the code fifteen when enrolling, to get your first full month of PM membership for $15 (a $10 savings from the standard price).
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Timothy Paulson will join Harper Christian as vp and publisher of Nelson Books, starting February 4. He was most recently with Kalmbach Media. At Harper Children’s, Olivia Russo has been promoted to director, publicity and Haley George to associate publicist. Kristopher Kam joins as publicist. He was most recently at St. Martin’s. Roxanne Jones has been promoted to publicist at Berkley. At Little Brown UK, Sphere Fiction publisher and executive director of the rights and audio teams Cath Burke has been promoted to deputy managing director of Little Brown Book Group, reporting to Charlie King. Lucy Malagoni has been promoted to Sphere Fiction publisher. Longtime publishing executive […]
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Caroline Osborn has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as subsidiary rights manager. She was most recently in subsidiary rights at Little, Brown Children’s. Derek Reed has been promoted to senior editor, Currency, Convergent, and Crown Forum. Cami Miller has been promoted to director for mass market sales at Harper Christian. At William Morrow, Eliza Rosenberry has been promoted to senior publicity manager and Camille Collins to publicity manager. Anne Goldberg has joined Phaidon in New York, as project editor, food, reporting to executive commissioning editor Emily Takoudes. Previously she was associate editor at Ten Speed Press. Serene Hakim has been promoted to associate agent and subrights manager at Ayesha Pande […]
The Deal on Deals
As you may recall, last year we did a lot of work on our signature “deals” data stream — adding a number of new categories, revising our main deal reporting form, and creating a new translation rights deal reporting form. Now, by popular demand, we have posted an extensive list of tips on filling on the new forms, as well as explaining some of our policies and practices. Little section headers let you jump to deal report tips (including how to report film/tv deals; translation rights deal report tips (including how and where to note all the levels of sub-agents […]