Michelle Howry will join Putnam as executive editor on May 7, reporting to Sally Kim. Previously she was executive editor at Hachette Books. Juliana Horbachevsky has joined Little, Brown as publicity manager. Most recently she was with Crown Publishing Group. Nicole Angeloro, editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, will take on the additional role of editorial manager of Mariner Books. Angeloro will continue to oversee The Best American publishing program. Allison Sundstrom has been promoted to senior designer at Sourcebooks. Following her promotion to ceo of Penguin Random House US, Madeline McIntosh will now also join Bertelsmann’s group management committee, which “advises and […]
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David Kopp, vp, executive editor of Convergent Books, will retire on May 1. Kopp began his book publishing career in 1994 at Multnomah Publishers, moving with it to Random House in 2006, and helped to launch Convergent in 2014. Gary Jansen has been promoted to executive editor at Convergent Books, and will continue to act as director of Image. Hanna Lee has been promoted to senior manager, digital marketing at Random House Children’s. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Lori Glazer has been promoted to svp, executive director of publicity. Gabbie Piraino has been named foreign rights manager at DeFiore and Company. Carina Mathern will join Harper Germany […]
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Pat Eisemann has been promoted to executive director of publicity at Holt. Emma Joss has been promoted to associate publicist for Doubleday. At Workman Publishing, Jodi Weiss has been promoted to executive director, gift and mass merchant sales; Liz Hunter is taking on the role of associate director, field sales; Caitlin Kleinschmidt will be taking on the additional responsibility of managing Workman’s relationship with Baker and Taylor in addition to her other duties as national account manager; Angela Campbell moves up to director of sales operations; and JT Green has been promoted to sales analyst. Terri Ruffino will join the company’s art department as director, […]
Paris Review Names Emily Nemens Editor
The Paris Review announced on Thursday that Emily Nemens, 34, will be the new editor starting June 1. Nemens lives in Baton Rouge, where she has co-edited the Southern Review since 2013. A graduate of Brown University, she has worked in editorial roles at the Center fo Architecture and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she has published writing in n+1, Esquire and The Gettysburg Review. The NYT says, “Nemens’ eclectic taste and creative ambitions proved to be a draw for the Paris Review board, which chose Ms. Nemens over a pool of candidates better known in New York’s literary […]
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Jaime Levine will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt on April 30 as senior editor focusing on acquiring psychological suspense, thrillers, and mysteries. Theresa Collier has been promoted to senior manager, publicity and marketing at Artisan Books. At Sourcebooks, Jillian Rahn has been promoted to associate art director. The Guggenheim Fellows were named for 2018, including fiction writers Rachel Cusk, Andrew Sean Greer, Lauren Groff, Jennifer Haigh, Min Jin Lee, China Miéville, and Deb Olin Unferth; nonfiction writers Nicholson Baker, Teju Cole, Robert Finch, Roxane Gay, Jane Kamensky, John Jeremiah Sullivan, and Lily Tuck; and nine poets. Acquisitions Independent Publishers Group has acquired academic book distributor […]
People: Bell to Gallery As Editorial Director
Aimee Bell will join the Gallery Books Group as vice president, editorial director, starting April 17, reporting to senior vice president and publisher Jennifer Bergstrom. Bell was the longtime deputy editor at Vanity Fair, until mid-February. Bergstrom said in the announcement: “She is an editor who has worked with some of the most ambitious, influential, and commercial authors – from Nora Ephron, Dave Eggers, and A.M. Homes to Sloane Crosley, Pippa Middleton, and Bono. Her sharp editorial instincts, creative thinking, and keen sense of what’s current in the zeitgeist make her the perfect person to lead the editorial direction of […]