Sean Murray has been promoted to executive director of sales for Sourcebooks, where has worked for 17 years. Chin-Yee Lai will join Basic Books as creative director starting January 2. She has worked as a freelance art director at Norton for eleven years, and designed jackets for publishers including Penguin Random House, Grove Atlantic, FSG, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Jess Brallier will leave his position as vp and publisher of Abrams Plus business group at the end of the year. Bloomsbury Publishing group finance director Wendy Pallot will leave the company after a 12-month notice period to join Euromoney Institutional Investor. A […]
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At Random House Children’s, Kristin Schulz has been promoted to manager, school & library marketing. Emily Petrick has been promoted to assistant manager, school & library marketing. Joyce Lin has joined Chronicle Books as food and lifestyle publicist. Previously she was a culinary publicity associate at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. PEN America announced longlists for their 2018 Literary Awards. Prizes include the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize For Debut Fiction, the PEN Open Book Award, the PEN Translation Prize, and four other awards, with ten finalists in each category.
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Michelle R. Ferguson joined Abrams on December 18 in the new role of senior vice president and chief operating officer. Most recently she was svp of workplace strategies for McGraw-Hill. Abrams president and ceo Michael Jacobs said, “Michelle is both a consummate professional and a personable, down-to-earth problem-solver with lots of energy and the desire to both teach and learn. The drive and the passion she’ll bring to Abrams will be a real asset to the company as we continue to evolve.” Distribution Ampersand will distribute Canadian northwest coast regional publisher Hancock House Publishers. Simon & Schuster will distribute Pike and Powder Publishing Group, […]
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Harassment Files Both Target and Walmart said that they will drop Mario Batali‘s products — including his cookbooks — from their stores following extensive accusations of sexual harassment. ABC officially fired Batali from their show “The Chew,” and the Food Network dropped plans to create new episodes of his earlier TV show,”Molto Mario.” On Friday, Batali apologized again in his newsletter: “I have made many mistakes and I am so very sorry that I have disappointed my friends, my family, my fans and my team. My behavior was wrong and there are no excuses.” Bookselling Well-known indie That Bookstore in Blytheville […]
Briefs: New PRH UK Office Building, Hay House Puts Smiley Books On Hold, and More
Penguin Random House UK announced a lease agreement for additional new offices at One Embassy Gardens, between London’s Vauxhall and Battersea, “a short walk” from the existing RH UK office at 20 Vauxhall Bridge Road. The new space has 83,400 square feet across five floors, and includes event space on the ground floor. The company had announced in summer 2016 that it would vacate Transworld’s offices in Ealing and Penguin’s offices in the Strand to consolidate their employees. The new space will be ready at the end of 2019, and the two buildings with “both…be home to a mix of Penguin Random […]