At Perseus, Leslie Jobson has been promoted to senior manager, field sales, while Louisa Brody has been promoted to senior manager, group marketing. Interim director of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association Stan Jantz will formally become executive director of the organization as of December 1. Caitlin Ellis has left HarperCollins, where she was most recently manager of domestic rights, to move to Boston. She may be reached at caitlin.ann.ellis@gmail.com. Longtime editor at Prentice Hall and later co-founder of Winthrop Publishers, Paul E. O’Connell, 90, died November 14. Amazon has leased distribution space at the “massive” Liberty View Industrial Plaza in Brooklyn‘s Sunset Park for at least […]
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Doug Foot is retiring from Penguin Random House Canada, where he was evp, chief financial officer. Succeeding him, effective immediately, is chief operating officer Barry Gallant, who will oversee the finance, contracts, and information technology departments while keeping responsibility for publishing and sales operations, as well as warehouse and office administration. Foot, who first joined Random House of Canada in 1993, will staying through March 2016 “to assist with year-end and ongoing projects.” Newly reporting to Gallant are Cheralyn Wheeler, controller; Samantha North, director, contracts; and Ed Brooks, director, I.T. Melanie Britton and Donna Miller and their teams, as well as James Rowan, […]
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Mysteries & thrillers editor Dennis Drabelle has retired from the Washington Post after more than 31 years at the paper, Book World editor Ron Charles posted on Twitter. Former vp of books, digital strategy and chief product officer at Barnes & Noble College Jade Roth has joined Flat World as svp, strategy and content. Additionally, former chairman of Pearson Higher Education in the US and Canada Bill Barke has joined the company as executive chairman of the board of directors. Once known as Flat World Knowledge and pitched as an open source textbook developer, the company now calls itself an “enabler of competency-based learning and digital […]
People: Weisberg Named President of Macmillan Publishers US
Penguin Young Readers Group president Don Weisberg has been appointed president of Macmillan Publishers US, reporting to ceo John Sargent, starting at the beginning of January. Weisberg was at Penguin Children’s since 2008, and will depart at the end of November. In his new role Weisberg will manage Macmillan’s US trade publishing houses, the audio and podcast businesses, and the trade sales organization. Sargent said in the announcement: “Macmillan Publishers has grown significantly over the past years, and the publishing business continues to increase in complexity. Our business in the United States has expanded greatly even as we have become more […]
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Emma Boyer has joined Zest Books as publicity manager. Previously she was a publicist at Algonquin. Chief technology officer at DreamWorks Animation Lincoln Wallen will join Pearson’s board as an independent non-executive director, starting January 1. Gerrie Lipson Sturman is now an agent with Goldfarb & Associates taking on selected clients. Sturman has been office manager, researcher and assistant to Ronald Goldfarb since 2011.
Diversity Triumphs at National Book Awards with Coates, Shusterman and Lewis, As Johnson Wins Fiction Award
After last year’s unfortunate National Book Awards ceremony, when the one winner of color Jacqueline Woodson suffered emcee Daniel Handler’s “monstrously inappropriate and yes, racist…attempts at humor,” this year’s awards honored the most diverse set of authors to grace the NBA stage. The heavily-favored, agenda-setting Ta-Nehisi Coates won the nonfiction award and provided a powerful testimonial to the slain friend who inspired his book and the climate that African Americans still face very day — and he was joined by two other authors of color in the winner’s circle. In the biggest surprise of the evening, however, the one male fiction author […]