Brett Collins has joined Open Road Media as svp, product development. Previously he was founder and digital strategist at Counterspace. Michael Gedonius has joined as vp, integrated national sales. Previously he was an account manager at Playboy Enterprises. Finally, Julie Blattberg has been promoted to vp, strategic operations. Jon M. Sweeney will join Ave Maria Press in late June as executive editor. Most recently, he was editorial director at Franciscan Media, and publisher of Paraclete Press. Sanj Kharbanda has left his position as senior vice president, digital markets at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Awards James Hannaham won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for […]
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People: Morin Promoted to CEO at Ingram
Ingram Content Group president and chief operating officer Shawn Morin has been promoted to president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. John Ingram “will continue to be active as chairman of the company.” Ingram says in the announcement, “Shawn is a proven leader, well-known across our industry, and he is certainly the right CEO as we write the next chapter in our company’s story. Ingram has experienced tremendous growth and transformation, particularly over the past few years. Shawn’s leadership, technology and engineering backgrounds, and passion for our business and our clients have helped make this evolution possible.” Ingram had taken back […]
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Olivia Taussig has joined Viking Penguin as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Other Press. Yanni Kuznia has been promoted to managing editor and chief operating officer of Subterranean Press. The Savannah Book Festival has hired Kim Bockius-Suwyn as its new executive director. Rotraut Susanne Berner of Germany and Cao Wenxuan of China were named as the winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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Allison Malec Renzulli will join Ten Speed Press as associate director of marketing on April 11, working out of Crown’s New York offices. Previously she was culinary marketing director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In addition, David Hawk has been promoted to assistant publicity director; Daniel Wikey moves up to marketing and publicity manager and Erin Welke has been promoted to publicity manager. PEN America announced it will honor Egyptian novelist Ahmed Naji with the 2016 PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Award at its annual Literary Gala on May 16. Corporate Egmont sold its Czech subsidiary, with sales of close to $5 million, […]
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Theresa Collier will join Artisan as senior publicist & associate marketing manager on April 1. Previously she was a publicist at Bloomsbury. Alexandra Primiani has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicist. She was previously in the publicity department at Riverhead. Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Imre Kertesz, 86, died Thursday at his home in Budapest. The LA Times announced its new roster of critics-at-large, featuring 10 writers who “have beautiful voices, brilliant minds, critical insights and strong opinions.” They are Marlon James, Laila Lalami, John Scalzi, Susan Straight, Alexander Chee, Viet Thanh Nguyen, David Kipen, Rigoberto Gonzalez, Rebecca […]
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ICM has promoted nine of its agents to partner, including literary agent Alexandra Machinist, who joined the agency in 2014. Adriana Rizzo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as vp, marketing on April 6. Previously she was senior director, marketing at ESPN. In addition, Maire Gorman will take on the new role of svp, sales, while Laurie Brown moves up to svp, associate trade group publisher and business development. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Knox Huston has been promoted to executive editor. Awards The J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize was awarded to Susan Southard for NAGASAKI: Life After Nuclear War (Viking) while the […]