Curtis Brown UK has acquired the entirety of Conville & Walsh a full year before the agreed deadline of final acquisition (after purchasing a 50 percent share in the agency two years ago). Conville & Walsh will retain its name and identity and continue to operate within Curtis Brown’s Haymarket offices, but its back office functions will be integrated into Curtis Brown. Jonny Geller, joint CEO of Curtis Brown, said in the announcement: “From the first day of working with Clare and Patrick and their fantastic team of agents and assistants, we knew it was going to work. Their flair, sense […]
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Image Books to Stop Publishing Frontlist; Freimuth to Leave
The Crown Publishing Group announced that as part of its “long-term growth strategy for its religious publishing program,” they “have made the difficult business decision to no longer acquire additional new titles for the Image Books publishing program, which we will discontinue as a frontlist imprint.” The company pledges to “continue to maintain and nurture the deep…backlist” of the Catholic-interest publishing imprint, and will “publish with full enthusiasm and support all Image books under contract.” As a result of that decision and the recent separation of Convergent books from Waterbrook Multnomah, vp, president, associate publisher, WaterBrook Multnomah, Convergent, and Image Books Carie Freimuth will […]
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David Patterson has joined the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, where he will continue to represent his clients and expand his list of writers of upmarket narrative non-fiction and literary fiction, historians, journalists and thought leaders. Previously he was an agent at Foundry Literary + Media. Barbara Cho has joined little bee books as production manager. She was previously production supervisor at Random House Children’s Books. Kurestin Armada has joined P.S. Literary Agency as associate agent. She was previously an assistant at The Lotts Agency. Corporate Barnes & Noble Education (the new name for BN College) has made an unspecified investment […]
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At Public Affairs, Colleen Lawrie will join the company as a senior editor on March 9. She was most recently an editor at Harper Collins. Tony Forde starts work there as a publicist on March 18. He was most recently an associate publicist at Twelve. Molly Fonseca will start as marketing manager at Flatiron Books on March 23, reporting to associate publisher Liz Keenan. She has been at Penguin Random House in the international sales department. Steven Boriack joins Flatiron as senior publicist on March 30, reporting to publicity director Marlena Bittner. Chelsey Heller has joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as subsidiary rights director and will also be handling foreign rights […]
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Amy Williams has resigned from McCormick & Williams and will start her own agency, The Williams Company. McCormick & Williams will be renamed McCormick Literary and will continue to operate from its current offices under David McCormick. At Scribner, Kara Watson has been promoted to the dual role of editor and associate marketing director. Robert Riger will leave his position as vp, director, Pimsleur Foreign Language Programs at Simon & Schuster Audio in mid-March, Publishing Trends reports. He can be reached at RPRiger@gmail.com. The UK office that Maria Campbell Associates opened quietly in London in May 2013 headed by Katie McCalmont continues to grow. Naja […]
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has hired Leigh Zarelli as svp of consumer brands, driving the strategic direction and expansion of direct-to-consumer product offerings. They have also hired Caroline Fraser as vp of program development and acquisition, spearheading new content development for the consumer market and identifying new media channels for HMH’s stable of iconic brands and characters. Zarelli was at AOL; Fraser was at Scholastic Media — and both will report to evp and chief of consumer brands and strategy, CJ Kettler. In the Random House publicity department, Jennifer Garza has been promoted to assistant director; Michelle Jasmine moves up to publicity manager; and Jenna Friedman has been […]