Penguin Random House announced “new cross-company senior sales leadership positions” in the US, in order “to enhance and strengthen” the existing sales teams. President and coo Madeline McIntosh emphasized that each of the existing sales teams will “continue as separate and distinct entities” and wrote to employees that the “shared goal will be to grow our sales by developing and executing marketplace strategies in collaboration with our publishing teams that serve our books, the company in totality, and our diverse account base.” Earlier in the day, PRH UK also announced new sales and digital/consumer insight leadership positions (see below). Spokesperson […]
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People: Kirshbaum to Join Waxman Leavell, and More
Larry Kirshbaum will join the Waxman Leavell Literary Agency as a senior agent starting February 24, the WSJ reported. Scott Waxman says, “He’ll be an independent agent building his own list like every agent does. I’ve always admired Larry and our team is extremely fortunate to have him as a colleague.” Kirshbaum was an agent for his own firm, LJK Literary Management, between 2005 and mid-2011. (His former colleagues at that agency reconstituted as the Einstein Thompson Agency when Kirshbaum joined Amazon Publishing in 2011.) Macmillan vp, director of international sales Judith Sisko will retire after this year’s London Book […]
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Global digital director for Penguin Molly Barton will leave the company to accept a faculty position at Wesleyan University and to consult for NYC- and Silicon Valley-based publishing-related start-ups. Barton also founded and led Book Country at Penguin, and day-to-day operations and activities will continue to be managed by Brandi Larsen. At St. Martin’s Press, April Osborn and Elizabeth Poteet have been promoted to assistant editor, while Kelly Quinn moves up to assistant editor at Tor. Koehler Books and Linden Publishing will be distributed by Ingram Publisher Services. Poets & Writers’ newest in-depth career interview with a trade publishing person […]
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Jane von Mehren has joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an affiliate agent after more than 25 years as an editor and publishing executive, most recently as an svp and publisher, trade paperback at the Random House Publishing Group. Penguin Group evp for legal affairs Alex Gigante since 1997 has joined Cowan DeBaets Abrahams & Sheppard as special counsel. He will continue his association with Penguin Random House through October 2014 in the part-time role of senior counsel. At Viking Penguin, Chris Russell and Maggie Riggs have both been promoted to associate editor. At Random House, Grant Neumann has been promoted […]
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Graham Bell will move up to executive director of EDItEUR as of April 1, after Mark Bide retires. Bell has been chief data architect of EDItEUR since joining the organization in 2010, after working as head of publishing systems at Harper UK. In the Crown production department, Luisa Francavilla has been promoted to associate production director; Patricia Shaw moves up to senior production editor/digital copy chief; and Shira Gluck, Virginia Rhoda, and Heather Williamson have all been promoted to production associate. At Putnam and Amy Einhorn Books, Kelly Welsh Rudolph has been promoted to assistant director of publicity. Christopher Rhodes […]
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Alibris parent company Monsoon Commerce has brought in Tommaso Trionfi as their new CEO, as Jim Cruckshank moves over to chairman of the board of directors. Trionfi has served previously as CEO of Merchantry, and Wimba prior to that. He has hired his former colleague Rob Teichman as vice president of engineering. Brooks Sherman will join The Bent Agency on January 27, representing picture books, young adult and middle grade fiction, and adult fiction and select nonfiction. He was previously an agent at FinePrint Literary Management. Veda Kumarjiguda has replaced Sooji Kim as digital marketing coordinator for Simon & Schuster Children’s and will work with Matt […]