Interim director of English PEN since August 2017 Antonia Byatt has been made the organization’s standing director. Lena Moses-Schmitt was promoted to publicity manager for Catapult, Counterpoint and Soft Skull. Kate Hutchison has joined LSC Communications as director of business development and strategy, publisher services, focusing on creating digital solutions within the publishing industry. She was most recently at BookShout. On Twitter, Ginger Clark at Curtis Brown offers “an incomplete list of [30] literary agent nightmares.” Awards Ibrahim Nasrallah won the International Prize for Arabic Fiction for his second novel, The Second War of the Dog (Arab Scientific Publishers. The $50,000 […]
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Liz Parker has joined Los Angeles-based talent agency Verve, to lead the launch of a new publishing division there. Parker will represent authors as well as “helping source intellectual property for clients looking to develop.” The company said in a statement, “When she told us that her guiding principle is to ‘make unheard voices heard,’ we knew we had found someone who shares both our personal and our professional values. Liz’s addition will allow us to represent new kinds of people and stories and gives us yet another means to bring those stories out into the world.” Parker has been […]
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At Sourcebooks, Deve McLemore has joined as purchasing manager and Leyla Parada has joined as contracts attorney. Laura Costello has been promoted to assistant editor for Sourcebooks Casablanca. Elizabeth Stranahan has been promoted to assistant editor at Crown Children’s. Mike Nardullo joins Foundry Literary + Media today as foreign rights director today. He was at Maria Campbell Associates. Kate Zwaard has been promoted to new position of director of digital strategy at the Library of Congress, to “elevate the institution’s digital planning and drive envisioning and collaboration around digital initiatives.” She was chief of the National Digital Initiatives division, and will continue to oversee the […]
Briefs: McCabe, Chozick on Clinton, the Great American Read(ing) List, and More
Recently-fired deputy director of the FBI Andrew McCabe recently sold a book proposal…to someone, represented by Todd Shuster at Aevitas Creative Management, reported by the NYT and confirmed by unsuccessful bidders. Next Tuesday’s release of Amy Chozick‘s CHASING HILLARY: Ten Years, Two Presidential Campaigns, and One Intact Glass Ceiling has already drawn a pre-pub review in the Washington Post and coverage in the Daily Beast. Chozick reports Clinton as unsurprised when told she had lost the election to Trump: “I knew it. I knew this would happen to me,” Chozick quotes her as saying. “They were never going to let me be […]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Becky Saikia-Wilson has been promoted to svp, trade associate publisher. Lyndsay Calusine has been promoted to lead designer on the creative services, design and promotion team. Penny Scott-Bayfield will join Bloomsbury as group finance director on July 16, taking over from Wendy Pallot, who will step down on that day. Scott-Bayfield is currently finance director at Conde Nast Britain. Mary Cate Stevenson and Noah Nofz, who operate a Houston, TX-based digital media marketing company Two Cats Communications, started working for the ABA in March as part-time social media coordinators. Book Expo Book Expo announced two new panels: […]
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At Workman Publishing, Page Edmunds has been promoted to executive associate publisher; Danny Cooper becomes editor; Kylie McDonald move up to senior editor, director of cookbooks; Rachael Mt. Pleasant has been promoted to editor; Megan Nicolay becomes executive editor; and Maisie Tivnan moves up to executive editor. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced a number of recent promotions in their sales department. Colleen Murphy has been promoted to vp, special markets, mass market sales, and product development. Ed Spade, has been appointed director, digital sales, strategy and business development. James Phirman has been promoted to national accounts director, mass market, and Jaclyn Sassa moves up to associate sales representative. McGraw-Hill Education named Dr. […]