Daniel Clancy, who has served as Engineering Director for Google Books since 2005, is moving to a new leadership role with responsibility for engineering at YouTube (also owned by Google). In the coming months, he will continue to be involved in key technology and business issues with respect to legal matters, existing partnership interactions and overall strategy for Google Books. Engineering director James Crawford will continue to oversee engineering for Google Editions, the Google Books Library Project and the Google Books Partner Program. Author and former editor Jason Pinter will join the Waxman Literary Agency as an agent on August […]
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Michelle Andelman has joined Regal Literary, where she will represent children’s fiction. Previously she worked as a foreign rights scout and with the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. Roger Jon Ellory has won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for A Simple Act of Violence (Orion)The Guardian Booksource will shut down its Irish subsidiary CMD Booksource this fall, citing “very difficult trading conditions.”The Bookseller
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At Grand Central Publishing, Melissa Bullock has been promoted to Publicist for Business Plus. At Viking, Kevin Doughten has been promoted to Editor. Pan Macmillan senior publicist Jacqui Graham is leaving the company after more than 32 years in her role, though she will continue to work with select authors the company publishes on a freelance basis. Louise Quayle has joined The Robbins Office as Foreign Rights Director. Most recently she was Director of Domestic Rights at Doubleday; before that, she handled foreign rights for the Ellen Levine Agency. Katie Hut is leaving the agency on July 30 in order […]
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At Ballantine Bantam Dell, Mark Tavani has been promoted to Editorial Director for Fiction. Scribd has hired Robert R. Macdonald as Senior Vice President of Business Development, to work out of the company’s soon-to-be-announced location in Manhattan. Previously he led media and strategic partnerships at Google. In partnership with Alibris, Borders has launched Borders Textbook Marketplace, featuring more than 1.4 million titles and a buyback option.Release Seamus Heaney and previous winners Robin Robertson and Jo Shapscott are among those shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Poetry. The winner of the £10,000 prize will be announced on October 6.BBC Square One […]
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Lisa Richards has joined Macmillan as National Account Manager, representing all of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group’s imprints to retail accounts serviced by Levy, including Wal-Mart, Sam’s Club and Target. She has previously worked for TOKYOPOP, Viz Media, and Prima Publishing, and reports to Director of Children’s Sales Mark von Bargen. After 18 years with Hodder and Headline, James Horobin will join Simon & Schuster UK in the newly created role of Group Sales, Marketing and Brand Development Director. He reports to Executive Director Kerr MacRae. At Headline, Aslan Byrne becomes UK and International Sales Director with immediate effect, reporting […]
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Kaplan has promoted Brett Sandusky to Director of Marketing. He was most recently a digital marketing manager for the company. At Publishers Group West and Perseus, Roy Remer is leaving his position as a Bay Area rep to work at the Zen Hospice in San Francisco, where he has volunteered for the last 13 years. Ty Wilson, head buyer for Copperfield’s bookstores the past seven years, will take Remer’s position. Simone Garzella Literary Scouting has been appointed the literary scout for the production company Aid+Abet Films. Wiley has been named the exclusive global publisher and distributor of RSMeans professional reference […]