Sarah Pelz will join Atria as executive editor on April 24, reporting to editor-in-chief Peter Borland. She is currently executive editor at Grand Central Life & Style. At Ingram Content Group, Lisa Tomasello has joined as director of mass merchandisers sales. She previously served as senior national accounts manager for Macmillan. Elenita Chmilowski was promoted to library marketing manager, and came to Ingram with the Perseus distribution team. Noah Schwartzberg has joined McGraw-Hill Professional as senior acquisitions editor in the business group. Previously, he was acquisitions editor at Fairchild Books. At Chronicle Books, Amelia Mack has been promoted to lead designer […]
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Parkeast Literary Agency director Gloria Koehler has retired, and her duties have been outsourced to another firm. Donna Eastman will stay on as editorial director at Parkeast, and will continue to market its books. Koehler is cfo of Splinterfire, a family-oriented literary referral service she started with Donna Eastman. At Chronicle Books, Ariel Richardson has been promoted to editor, children’s. Lizzie Vaughn has joined as designer. Zak Nelson has joined Seattle-area Third Place Books and takes over as manager of events and marketing at the beginning of May. Most recently, he was a book reviewer for Shelf Awareness and a bookseller at Amazon Books. As planned, Wendy Ceballos […]
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Michael Martens has joined IDW Publishing as director of trade sales, and will act as liaison with Penguin Random House Publisher Services when they take over distribution in April. Martens had been consulting on that relationship, and was previously vp of trade sales at Dark Horse Comics. Harper Christian has appointed Tim Marshall senior marketing director for Thomas Nelson and Zondervan Gift Books, reporting to Michael Aulisio. Previously, he was an independent marketing and brand consultant. By most standards Pearson ceo John Fallon should have been fired by now, given the company’s disastrous performance. Instead, he was awarded a 20 percent increase […]
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At Chronicle Books, Viniita Moran has been promoted to senior web manager. Alina Buevich has been promoted to designer of marketing communications. Awards The New York Public Library announced the five finalists for the Young Lions Fiction Award: Clare Beams, We Show What We have Learned (Lookout Books) Brit Bennett, The Mothers (Riverhead) Kaitlyn Greenidge, We Love You Charlie Freeman (Algonquin) Nicole Dennis-Benn, Here Comes the Sun (Liveright) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin) The winners of the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards are: Fiction: Peter Ho Davies, The Fortunes (HMH) Karan Mahajan, The Association of Small Bombs (Penguin) Nonfiction: Margot Lee Shetterly, Hidden Figures (Morrow) Poetry: Tyehimba Jess, Olio (Wave Books) […]
Whiting Award Winners
The Whiting Awards were announced in a ceremony Wednesday evening. The ten winners of the $50,000 prize are: Fiction Jen Beagin (Pretend I’m Dead, Triquarterly Books) Kaitlyn Greenidge (We Love You, Charlie Freeman, Algonquin) Lisa Halliday (Asymmetry, forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in 2018) Tony Tulathimutte (Private Citizens, Morrow) Nonfiction Francisco Cantú (The Line Becomes a River, forthcoming from Riverhead in 2018) Poetry Simone White (Of Being Dispersed, Futurepoem) Phillip B. Williams (Thief in the Interior, Alice James Books) Drama Clarence Coo James Ijames Clare Barron In People news, Allison Devlin will join F+W Media as vp, director of sales and marketing […]
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Among the first named layoffs at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt is svp, associate trade group publisher and business development Laurie Brown, who has left the company. Ingram Content Group has added Kelly Arnold as chief legal offficer (she was general counsel at U.S. Xpress Enterprises) and Deanna Steele as chief information technology officer (she was group vice president, IT – Brands at Ascena Retail Group). Nancy Sheppard has joined St. Martin’s as marketing director. Previously she was director of creative marketing services at Penguin Adult. Josh Redlich has been promoted to publicist at Random House Children’s. Laura Kaplan has returned to the […]