At Sourcebooks, Jenna Quatraro has been promoted to marketing design manager, while Grace Menary-Winefield moves up to associate editor. At Simon & Schuster, Julianna Haubner, Megan Hogan, Sophia Jiminez, and Kaitlin Olson have all been promoted to assistant editor. At Scribner, Jessica Yu has been promoted to publicist. At Touchstone, Courtney Brach has been promoted to associate publicist. Nikki Tetreault has been promoted to chief executive officer of Curiosity Quills Press, succeeding the company founders who will “step back to concentrate on a related launch,” details of which will come shortly, according to the announcement. Trinity McFadden has joined Zondervan […]
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At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has been appointed manager, data and analysis, where she will lead the company’s newly created data and analysis department. The department will streamline data functions, offer a higher level of analytical support to departments, partners, and customers and also will include Stephanie Lewis as business data specialist, Jennifer Sterkowitz as product data associate, and Molly Wojda as order data associate. In announcements, bargain book wholesaler Book Depot says it is spending $3 million to install robotic technology to sort through over 100,000 books a day — helping to grow their business in processing returns and purchasing […]
Nguyen, Stiles, Finnegan Among Pulitzer Winners
The Pulitzer Prizes offered a mix of surprises and expected results in their book category winners. Viet Thanh Nguyen’s much-heralded debut novel The Sympathizer won for fiction, and in a note on his website the author said: “Of course it’s wonderful for me to get this prize. But within minutes of getting it, I knew that I owed tremendous thanks to everyone who has gone before me in the great, ongoing struggle for social justice, for peace, for genuine equality, for representation for all at every level of every society.” TJ Stiles won in history for the second time (after winning […]
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At Counterpoint/Soft Skull, Megan Fishmann has been promoted to director of publicity and marketing. Etinosa Agbonlahor has been promoted to assistant editor at Touchstone. At Knopf, Katie Schoder has been promoted to publicist. At Howard Books, Brandi Lewis has been promoted to senior marketing manager. In the UK, Alex Bowler is leaving Jonathan Cape to join Granta Books as publishing director in July.
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Dominique Cimina has been promoted to vp, executive director, publicity and corporate communications at Random House Children’s Books. Bess Braswell has joined Harper Children’s as senior director, marketing. She was most recently director of marketing for Teen, Middle Grade, Graphix, and Audio at Scholastic. At Touchstone, Meredith Vilarello has been promoted to associate marketing director. At Simon & Schuster, Christina Pecorale has been promoted to vp, director children’s sales. Cayla Rasi will join Random House Children’s as senior marketing manager, digital. Cayla previously worked at Deep Focus agency. The ABA confirmed the election of the four nominated board members; Kris Kleindienst of Left Bank […]
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Alaina Mauro has joined Little, Brown as publishing director, James Patterson. Previously she was a digital sales account manager at Penguin Children’s. Daniella Valladares will join Little, Brown Children’s as assistant editor, brand, licensed, and media tie-in publishing. She was most recently an assistant editor at HarperCollins. Sarah Williams has joined Penguin Random House as vp, director, strategy & development, special markets. Previously she was executive editor, business development at Chronicle Books. Diana Ventimiglia has joined North Star Way as editor. Most recently she was an editor at Sterling Publishing, where she focused on the culinary, mind/body/spirit, lifestyle, health, and pop […]