Orion publishing director Kate Mills will join Harlequin UK later this summer in the newly created role of publishing director of HQ (the rebranded banner for most of Harlequin UK). Mills was at Orion for the past 14 years, and will focus on commercial fiction, including crime, women’s fiction and book club titles. Sarah Mangiola has joined Open Road as senior web editor, books, where she will work on all book-related stories for Open Road’s network of websites, and produce excerpts and book lists. Previously she was an editorial content manager at The Reading Room. Emma Ledbetter has been promoted to […]
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HarperCollins Creates Program to Support New Bookstores
HarperCollins announced a New Store Development Program to support independent booksellers opening new stores (or additional locations) in the US. Qualifying stores can get extra discount, “in the form of market development and fixture funds, on orders placed priorto opening and for the first three months of operation.” Harper will also give grants towards ABA membership dues and three months of Above the Treeline fees. Harper’s president of sales Josh Marwell says in the announcement, “We want to do everything we reasonably can to encourage” the growth in indie stores, “especially in the critical early days of a new store’s life.” American Booksellers Association ceo Oren Teicher adds, “While our market […]
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Brenda Chin will join Entangled as editorial director of the Brazen and Scorched imprints. Previously she was editorial director at Harlequin Blaze. Amazon global v-p and general manager of Kindle China Zhang Wenyi has been appointed president of Amazon China, while continuing to lead the country’s Kindle business. Milkweed Editions will open a new bookstore, Milkweed Books, in downtown Minneapolis in late June or early July. According to MPR, Milkweed publisher and ceo Daniel Slager estimates “about a quarter of the store’s stock will be Milkweed books, and the rest will come from a variety of publishers across the country, […]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Helen Atsma has been promoted to editorial director, fiction, while Naomi Gibbs moves up to editor. Rebecca Lang has joined St. Martin’s as publicity manager. She was previously a publicist at Viking Penguin. In addition, Courtney Reed has been promoted to marketing manager. Tara Carberry has joined hoopla digital in the newly created position of content strategist. Most recently she was an associate literary agent at Trident Media Group. Rebecca Liao and Cristóbal Pera have joined Words Without Borders’ board of directors. Distribution IPG has launched a new distribution program, Amphora, focused on servicing large content holders. […]
McDonald Named Publisher of New FSG Imprint, and More
Sean McDonald has been named publisher of a newly created imprint at Farrar, Straus, MCD/FSG. The imprint’s goal, according to the announcement, is to “create a space to publish work and experiment with publishing styles, forms, and genres that are at the edges of FSG’s traditions and/or are new enough to have no tradition.” McDonald will be joined at MCD/FSG by former Amazon Publishing editor-in-chief and publisher Daphne Durham, named executive editor, working from Seattle. McDonald says in the announcement, “When Jonathan [Galassi] suggested this—to create what he called a kind of lab in which we could find new ways […]
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Kathy Trager has decided to retire from her position of evp general counsel, Penguin Random House as June 30. CEO Markus Dohle writes to staff, “As one of the most accomplished general counsels in publishing ever, Kathy has left an indelible mark on our company and our industry.” Associate general counsel Anke Steinecke will be promoted to fill Trager’s position on July 1, reported to Dohle, and also succeeding Trager as secretary of the Penguin Random House US board of directors. Ben Tomek will join Flatiron Books as marketing director on May 23, moving over from Ecco. Keith Hayes joins the division as executive art director on May […]