At HMH Children’s, Mary Wilcox has been promoted to the newly-created position of vp, editor in chief. In addition, Adah Nuchi has been promoted to associate editor. At McIntosh & Otis. Shira Hoffman has been promoted to director of subsidiary rights, representing the agency’s extensive backlist of adult titles as well as for Louisiana State University Press and the University of Nebraska Press, while continuing to grow her own list. In addition, Christa Heschke has been promoted to agent within the children’s department, handling all foreign, domestic and subsidiary rights for children’s clients while actively building her own list. The […]
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At today’s annual meeting of the Association of American Publishers (AAP), Simon & Schuster ceo Carolyn Reidy formally took over from Cengage executive chairman Ron Dunn as chair of the organization’s board of directors. In the UK, Jo Unwin will join Doubleday UK as deputy publisher on April 8, reporting to Marianne Velmans. Unwin was previously an agent at Conville & Walsh, which announced it sold a 50 percent stake in its business to Curtis Brown (see separate story). Catherine Burke has been promoted to publisher, Sphere fiction at Little, Brown UK. At Penguin, Suzie Sisoler has been promoted to senior director […]
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Michele Martin will join the Gallery Books Group on March 4 as vp, associate publisher, reporting to Louise Burke. Previously she was founder and proprietor of MDM Management, which will now be assumed by CSG Literary Partners, and before that she held executive positions at Avalon, Langenscheidt and Doubleday, where she created and oversaw the Main Street Books imprint. At Penguin, Katherine Tiernan McCahill has been promoted to assistant director of the digital products group. In Canada, former senior executives at D&M Publishers Chris Labonte, Peter Cocking and Richard Nadeau have founded Figure1 Publishing, devoted to books in the art […]
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Patricia Arancibia has joined Apple as head of the iBookstore’s European operations. Previously she was editorial director, International Acquisition & Relations – International Digital Content at Barnes & Noble. In the UK, PFD agent Robert Caskie is taking on the additional new role of chief operating officer of The Rights House Group. Publicity director at Profile Books Ruth Killick is leaving the publisher after 11 years to establish her own PR firm in Bristol this May. Writer, educator and activist Monica Carter, has been named the Lambda Literary Foundation’s LGBT Writers in Schools program coordinator. The trickling of BEA author breakfast […]
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At the Random House Publishing Group, Melissa Milsten has been named director, partnerships and business development, reporting to Allison Dobson. In her new role Milsten will focus on developing long-term relationships with consumer brands and products to expand the audience for RHPG authors, increase marketing, publicity, and digital reach, and develop new revenue streams. Diana Coglianese has been promoted to editor for Knopf and Pantheon. Last Friday Hastings “dismissed 14 mid-level to executive employees” in order to cut their administrative costs. CEO and chairman John Marmaduke has relinquished the presidency, promoting Alan Van Ongevalle to president and chief operating officer as […]
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Just a few days ago it was Clive Davis‘s The Soundtrack of My Life that was everywhere, from disclosing his bisexuality to a rebuke from Kelly Clarkson, but now the Sheryl Sandberg Lean In juggernaut is beginning. As she tells the NYT, the aim is not just to share ideas through a book to “run a social movement.” Her Lean In Circles are “half business school and half book club,” with “precise” membership requirements and guidelines. The question is “will more earthbound women, struggling with cash flow and child care, embrace the advice of […]