At Ten Speed Press, Sara Golski has been promoted to editor and Emily Timberlake has been promoted to associate editor, both reporting to Julie Bennett. The Waxman Agency’s Holly Root is relocating to Los Angeles. She will open a west coast office for the agency, and will continue to develop her client list as well as expand the agency’s network of TV and film contacts. A Mississippi court judge has thrown out a lawsuit by Ablene Cooper alleging that Kathryn Stockett based a key character in her bestselling novel THE HELP on her. Cooper, the African-American maid for one of […]
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At Bloomsbury UK, Charlotte Atyeo has been named publisher of sport and Wisden, while Charlotte Croft moves up to publisher of the sports and fitness department at A&C Black. Paula Schlosser has joined Martingale & Company as design director. Previously she was an art director at Oxford University Press.
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Rachel Mannheimer has been promoted to associate editor at Bloomsbury USA. Michael Bowles will join Random House Canada as director, eBooks and eProduct development on August 29. Previously he was a content development manager at Kobo. Anne Born, translator of more than 50 Scandinavian novels and poetry collections, died on July 27 in Devon at age 87. Among the authors she translated were Carsten Jensen, Isak Dinesen and Per Petterson, including his IMPAC-Award winning novel OUT STEALING HORSES. Guardian obit
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Nicole de Jackmo has been named publicity manager for Quirk Books. Previously she was a senior publicist for Running Press. Meghan Cassidy joins Free Press as senior publicist as of Monday, August 15. Previously she was a senior account executive at Widmeyer Communications. Joy Aquilino has joined Sixth&Spring Books as editorial director. Previously she was executive editor of Watson-Guptill/Potter Craft. At Phaidon Press, Peter Tittiger has been promoted to publicist. At Lonely Planet, Gary Todoroff has been promoted to v-p, sales, Brice Gosnell moves up to v-p, publishing, and publisher, Americas, Marc Visnick has been promoted to director of sales, […]
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Brian Ulicky has been named publicity manager for Blue Rider Press, starting September 6. He was most recently at Simon & Schuster, also as a publicity manager. Simon & Schuster Children’s has announced a number of new hires and promotions. Ariel Colletti has moved to the Atheneum imprint, where she will remain an assistant editor, and editorial assistant Dani Young will also oversee the coordinating of all three imprints’ paperback conversions, repackages, as well as managing the back ad library. In addition, Amy Rosenbaum has joined as an editorial assistant, having recently completed the Columbia Publishing Course. Penguin rep Ann […]
Harper Praises Children’s Results; US eBooks Were 12 Percent for the Year
News Corp. reported fourth quarter earnings after the close of the market on Wednesday, and per the new standard there was no specific mention of either HarperCollins or book publishing. The larger publishing division–which is dominated by the company’s newspapers–had a good performance despite public controversy, with sales up $225 million and segment operating income rising $74 million. Harper said in a brief statement that it “ended the year with a profitable quarter and exceeded its plan for the year.” They say the children’s division enjoyed “its second best ever” year. eBook sales were “approximately 12 percent of sales in […]