Longtime HarperCollins executive editor Tim Duggan will move to Crown on June 9 where he will serve as publisher of his own Tim Duggan Books imprint. He will publish 8 to 10 titles a year, “evenly split between nonfiction and fiction,” reporting to Molly Stern. Duggan says: “I’m thrilled to be joining the ultra-talented team at Crown, and I can’t wait to get started on building and shaping a brand new list of books that puts an emphasis on discovering bold new voices and aiming for the highest standard of storytelling across a range of genres.” Stern writes to staff: […]
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People: Lynch to Ecco, Penguin Random’s Marketing/Operations Team, Sophie Hicks’ Agency
Megan Lynch will join Ecco as editorial director on May 28, reporting to Daniel Halpern, who says “I can’t imagine anyone more suited to taking over the fiction reins at Ecco.” Ryan Willard will report to Lynch, and Hillary Redmon will continue to report to Halpern. Lynch is currently senior editor at Riverhead, where she spent the previous 11 years. Penguin Random House has created a companywide Consumer Marketing Development and Operations group. SVP, director Amanda Close — who has led the predecessor, Random House’s digital marketing and channel development team — will lead the new group, reporting to US president and coo Madeline McIntosh. […]
Two Big Books of BEA Buzz
With BEA itself just two weeks away, the real convention business of discovering, sampling and sharing big new “discovery” books for the fall/winter publishing seasons begins today. Our new free ebook Buzz Books 2014: Fall/Winter presents substantial, pre-publication excerpts from over 30 forthcoming books — including a dozen authors who will be at the convention. We have highly-touted debuts (from Matthew Thomas, Jessie Burton, Katy Simpson Smith, Nayomi Munaweera, Audrey Magee, Judy Chicurel and more); headliners (Neil Patrick Harris, Alan Cumming, Billy Idol, Peter Thiel); serious nonfiction (Morten Storm, Matt Richtel); established authors (Deborah Harkness, Lev Grossman, John Scalzi, Tana French, Michael Faber); […]
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At St. Martin’s, John Murphy will take the new role of vp, publishing strategy. “He will be involved in author relations, list developments, and in seeking new publishing opportunities and concepts as well as identifying trends in publishing and the media at large.” Most recently divisional vp, director of publicity, Murphy has been at St. Martin’s for over 25 years. Former Penguin Group advising director of corporate communications (and longtime S&S director of publicity before that) Tracey Guest will take over as vp, director of publicity for all of the St. Martin’s Press imprint on June 2. She will report to […]
People, Etc.
Karen Dziekonski has joined Penguin Random House Audio as an executive producer (she was executive producer at Harper Audio) and Laurie Hardjowirogo has joined the unit as a designer. At Scholastic Trade, Ellen Duda has joined the company as designer. She was most recently at Sterling. In promotions, Julie Amitie is now executive director of marketing; Beth Noble is associate marketing manager; Emelia Zamani moves up to editorial manager for Chicken House and David Fickling Books; Rachel Hicks is managing editor, trade hardcover/paperback; and Nina Goffi is now senior designer. The Target Book Club pick for June is Graeme Simsion‘s The Rosie Project (first […]
Corporate: Sales Fall At Lagardere Publishing; HMH Buys Channel One News
First quarter sales at Lagardere Publishing fell 26 million euros (or 6.2 percent) in the first quarter, to 393 million euros, “due mostly to the comparison” to a strong quarter a year ago, which included sales of the Fifty Shades trilogy in France. Similarly, for the US unit, HBG USA ceo Michael Pietsch said they “had a tough comparison due to Q1 2013 movie tie in bestsellers of Nicholas Sparks’s SAFE HAVEN, Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl’s BEAUTIFUL CREATURES, and Stephenie Meyer’s THE HOST, but new bestsellers made up most of that ground…. Ebook sales slowed from last year’s first […]