Lauren Adams has been promoted to senior marketing manager of licensed and proprietary brands marketing for Random House Children’s. Kate Hutchison joins BookShout as director of business development and publisher relations. Most recently she worked for the startups Litsy and Bookstr. LitHub’s latest “interview with a gatekeeper” features Colin Dickerman. On why being an editor is the best job: “Because I feel like it engages so many different ways of thinking. You’re reading something critically, you’re negotiating a contract, there’s a social aspect to it…you’re going out and meeting people. And there is the very intense relationship with an author, which […]
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Following the closing of the imprint’s Nashville office earlier this year, Howard Books senior editor Phyllis Boultinghouse will retire on September 29. She has been with the company since 1985. Beth Adams has been promoted to executive editor. Former editor-in-chief Becky Nesbitt will return to Howard Books as editor-at-large, based in Nashville and reporting to Adams. Jocelyn Bailey has joined Harper Christian as an acquisitions editor, acquiring fiction for the Thomas Nelson and Zondervan imprints. Lindsey Hall will join Tor as senior editor. Previously, she was editor for Orbit. At HMH, Hannah Harlow has been promoted to executive director of marketing. Michael Dudding has […]
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At Abrams Children’s, Maggie Lehrman has been promoted to executive editor and Traci Todd moves up to editorial director. Pamela Bobowicz will join on October 2 as executive editor of licensed publishing, reporting to Todd. Previously she was senior editor for Harper Children’s. At Massie & McQuilkin, Lexi Wangler has been promoted to junior agent & foreign rights associate. Laura Brown has been promoted to editor at Harper. Veronica Wasserman has joined HMH Children’s as executive director of marketing and brand strategy. Previously she was brand director of Wimpy Kid marketing at Abrams. Lisa DiSarro has been promoted to executive director of marketing. Connie Le joins Random House Children’s as brand […]
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Rachel Vogel has joined Dunow, Carlson & Lerner as agent. She was most recently agent at Waxman Leavell Literary Agency. Jennifer Chen Tran has joined the Bradford Literary Agency as agent. She was previously associate agent at Fuse Literary. Ginny Smith Younce has been promoted to executive editor at Penguin Press. Jessie Kindig has joined Verso Books as an editor, acquiring trade and academic crossover titles across a wide range, including US history and politics. She was formerly an associate agent at Roam Agency. Shane Danaher has joined Rodale Books as associate web producer, and Maureen Cirnitski has joined as […]
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The National Book Foundation announced their latest list of 5 Under 35 honorees on Monday morning, all women, and all but one of whom are Penguin Random House authors. The one outlier so far, Butler, had her next book deal just announced, and Clemmons worked in editorial for a few years at Little, Brown. Lesley Nneka Arimah, What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky: Stories (Riverhead) Halle Butler, Jillian (Curbside Splendor) Zinzi Clemmons, What We Lose (Viking) Leopoldine Core, When Watched: Stories (Penguin) Weike Wang, Chemistry (Knopf ) Being of a certain age, we started wondering what a […]
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Founder of Roaring Brook Press, and svp and publishing director of that imprint along with FSG Children’s and First Second Simon Boughton is leaving Macmillan Children’s after 13 years with the company. President and publisher of Putnam Children’s Jennifer Besser will take over the same position at Macmillan Children’s on October 30. President of Deseret Book Jeff Simpson was named to the additional position of president and publisher of the Deseret News as well. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Vanessa DeJesus will join as associate publicist starting September 25. She was most recently assistant manager of author events for Macmillan. Aubrey […]