Catherine Makk will join HarperCollins as vp, global insight on June 8, reporting to Chantal Restivo-Alessi. Makk was previously director, retail and consumer insights at Vogue and in her role will also serve as consumer insight lead for Harlequin, HarperCollins Canada and the company’s global publishing team. In addition, Jim Hanas has been promoted to senior director, audience development & insight, while Allison Jarvela has been named senior manager, consumer insight. Jarvela was previously a market research analyst at Wiley. Sarah Knight is leaving Simon & Schuster, where she was a senior editor for the past five years, on June […]
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St. Martin’s Closes Palgrave Imprint
St. Martin’s Press is closing the Palgrave Macmillan trade imprint that they integrated in 2014 and will absorb the imprint’s staff, the result of “a structural realignment of Macmillan’s international educational resources” after the merger of Macmillan Science and Education and Springer Science + Business Media into Springer Nature. SMP “will begin phasing out the use of the name Palgrave immediately,” publishing those new titles under the St. Martin’s Press and Griffin imprints. Current Palgrave editorial staff will continue to manage previously acquired projects and begin to take on general St. Martin’s assignments: Karen Wolny will become executive editor; Elisabeth Dyssegaard continues as […]
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At Penguin Random House, head of global corporate finance Milena Alberti is being promoted to chief financial officer as July 1, succeeding Coram Williams as he returns to Pearson as their CFO. Alberti will join the Penguin Random House board of directors, as well as the company’s North American board and global executive committee. James Johnston is being promoted to the new position of svp, deputy chief financial officer under Alberti, serving in both worldwide and U.S. capacities. Kate Geraghty has been promoted to vp, communications for Macmillan Higher Education and Macmillan New Ventures. At Grand Central Publishing, Caitlin Mulrooney-Lyski has been promoted to […]
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Amanda O’Connor will join Trident Media Group as an agent on June 15, representing general interest and upmarket non-fiction, literary fiction, spirituality and wellness. She had been an editor at Crown’s discontinued Image Books. At Simon & Schuster, Emily Graff has been promoted to editor. Avalon Radys has joined Inkshares as marketing manager. Previously she was editor-in-chief at Umano. Declan Taintor has joined Picador as senior publicist. He was previously a publicist at powerHouse Books. Literackie in Poland has appointed Eccles Fisher Associates as its scout, effective immediately. David Higham Associates has acquired Toby Eady Associates, founded in 1968. “Eady will continue to work […]
People: Barer, Bender, Bloom & Weed Form The Book Group; Allison to Retire from Berkley
Julie Barer, Faye Bender, Brettne Bloom and Elisabeth Weed are launching The Book Group, a new full-service literary agency. Barer, Bender, and Weed have each spent the past 10 years running their own agencies; Bloom joins from Kneerim, Williams & Bloom, where she spent the past 15 years (and 3 as a partner.) With Bloom’s departure her former agency will revert back to its earlier name, Kneerim & Williams. “Brettne is a great agent, and she has all our congratulations on the new venture,” Jill Kneerim told us, adding the agency “salutes Bloom in her new enterprise.” In addition, Newbery […]
EL James’ Next Novel GREY Publishes on June 18
Vintage will publish EL James‘ next novel GREY on June 18 as a trade paperback and ebook. The sequel to the FIFTY SHADES trilogy will be told from Christian Grey’s perspective, with the June 18 publication date apparently chosen to commemorate the character’s birthday. James said in the announcement on her website: “Christian is a complex character, and readers have always been fascinated by his desires and motivations, and his troubled past. Also, as anyone who has ever been in a relationship knows, there are two sides to every story. It’s been a great pleasure to return to my happy […]