Vanessa Vazquez has been promoted to executive director of client sales services at Hachette Book Group. Sanford J. Greenburger Associates has been appointed children’s and YA scout for V&R Editoras in Latin America and Brazil. Emanuela Anechoum joins Europa Editions/Edizioni EO in the new position of international rights manager, based Rome. She was rights manager at Blake Friedman. Sold Australian trade magazine Books+Publishing has been sold by ProQuest’s Thorpe-Bowker to general manager Gary Pengelly, who will operate through the new company Books and Publishing Pty Ltd. He said: “The opportunity to be custodian of an iconic Australian publishing industry brand was irresistible and I must […]
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Awards After the postponement of the 2018 Nobel prize for literature in May, 100 Swedish writers, actors, journalists and other cultural figures have formed an organization called the New Academy, which will award its own prize this fall. A statement on their website says, “We have founded The New Academy to remind people that literature and culture at large should promote democracy, transparency, empathy and respect, without privilege, bias arrogance or sexism.” The academy has asked Sweden’s librarians to nominate authors from anywhere in the world, with the stipulation that they have written at least two books, one of which was published […]
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After six years of building the Quercus US list, publisher Nathaniel Marunas will leave at the end of June. He says, “The process of building Quercus from scratch has been hugely rewarding, but also utterly consuming. Having poured myself into launching the business and helping it grow, it is time to take a brief sabbatical, focus on several projects close to my heart, and consider what other publishing adventures the future might hold.” Any inquiries should be directed to Quercus marketing manager Elyse Gregov at Hachette Book Group USA. Lauren Scovel has been promoted to junior agent at Laura Gross […]
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John Siciliano has been promoted to executive editor for Penguin Books. He continues as executive editor for Penguin Classics. Remy Cawley has joined Nation Books as an assistant editor. Cawley was formerly at Norton. Michelle Obama‘s Facebook page features a video with remarks from her recent appearance at the ALA’s annual conference in New Orleans, talking about her forthcoming book: “It’s a its rehumanization effort…. It’s the ordinariness of a very extraordinary story. I hope that by telling it that it makes others..to feel the pride in their story in the way I feel about mine… I am not a unicorn. […]
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Mike Zuccato has been promoted to general manager, ecommerce at Sourcebooks. Kelly Snowden has been promoted to senior editor at Ten Speed Press. Initiatives Penguin Random House is helping Metro-North Railroad promote recently-expanded free wifi in and around Grand Central Terminal with a Grand Central Reads website. It provides free e-book excerpts for commuters, “tailored and timed to the length of individual commutes.” In the UK, Profile Books has partnered with Little Brown UK to launch a Profile Audio line, starting with David Runciman’s How Democracy Ends in July. Profile editor Louisa Dunnigan and publicity director Hannah Ross will work with […]
People: Lazarus to Run HBG Sales
Longtime president of sales at Macmillan Alison Lazarus will leave there after over 20 years to join Hachette Book Group as evp, director of sales on August 6. She will report to ceo Michael Pietsch and join the company’s executive management board. As a result, current svp, group sales director Chris Murphy will shift to svp, retail sales. Pietsch writes: “Chris is returning to a job that he did superbly in the past, which is wonderful news for HBG…. I am certain that in this role, Chris will continue to play a major part in HBG’s future.” He says Lazarus’s “breadth […]