The Crown Publishing Group announced it has made additional changes to its organizational structure that, according to president and publisher Maja Mavjee, will “create an even sharper direction and momentum for each of our publishing areas as we enhance creative collaboration across the Crown Publishing Group while maintaining the diverse category focus that has been a cornerstone of our recent success.” Molly Stern, who as svp, publisher of Crown, Hogarth, and Broadway Books oversees the division’s fiction publishing program, will add narrative-based general interest nonfiction to her portfolio, taking on responsibility for the Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press imprints. […]
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The Last Chance for Some BEA Buzz Samples
Before we announce our newest Buzz Books authors for BEA and beyond into the fall/winter publishing season, it’s worth noting that our Spring/Summer edition of Buzz Books has quietly featured a number of BEA authors and books. (Because Winter Institute was early this year, we published our Spring Buzz Books sampler in mid-January, but it featured samples of titles for release all the way through the first week of August.) Over a dozen of the titles sampled are still to come. You’ll find featured at BEA a signing by debut novelist Malcolm Brooks (Painted Horses) and a Book Con appearance […]
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Associate publisher Tracy Locke will leave the Penguin Press on May 16. Thereafter, she can be reached at locketracy32@gmail.com. Jessica Purcell has joined Knopf as associate director of publicity. Previously she was a publicity manager at Norton. At HarperAudio, Sean McManus was promoted to senior director. In addition, Caitlin Garing moves up to senior producer and Erin Wicks has been promoted to producer. The Elina Ahlback Literary Agency, based in Helsinki and focused on representing Finnish authors, illustrators and publishers to the US market, has recently opened an office in New York, headed by Laura Palotie. She is based out of Makeshift […]
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At Rizzoli, Robb Pearlman has been promoted to associate publisher, Universe Books, Calendars, and Licensing, while Dung Ngo moves up to the new position of creative director. In addition, Kaija Markoe has been appointed associate director of production. At Workman, Maisie Tivnan has been promoted to senior editor, and Justin Krasner and Heather Schwedel have both been promoted to assistant editor. Election results for the ABA board of directors are now official, with Jamie Fiocco of Flyleaf Books in Chapel Hill, NC joining the board, as John Evans of Diesel and Matthew Norcross of McLean & Eakin were both reelected to second […]
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Tisse Takagi has teamed up with The Science Factory as an agent, based in New York, focusing on non-fiction in the areas of biography, food, and music as well as science. She was an editor at Basic Books. It’s the first appointment since Peter Tallack, who runs the agency from Hamburg, Germany, founded the company six years ago. He describes the collaboration as an exciting step in extending the company’s international reach and intellectual breadth and depth. Co-ceo of The Carlyle Group David Rubenstein will take over in October as chairman of the James Madison Council, an advisory and fundraising […]
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At Paula Wiseman Books, Sylvie Frank has been promoted to editor. Megan Reid has been promoted to associate editor at Emily Bestler Books/Atria. World Book Night US reports that media impressions nearly tripled this year, citing Cision Media and Google Analytics reports recording 373 million media impressions in April 2014. Poet Russell Edson, 79, died April 29 in Stamford, CT after a long illness.