Bill Hamilton will join Celadon Books as executive editor, starting April 5, where he will acquire “nonfiction with a focus on politics and history.” He was most recently Washington editor at The New York Times. Nathalie Le Du has been promoted to publisher of Odd Dot, reporting to Jen Besser, president of Macmillan Children’s Publishing. Newly reporting to Le Du is creative director Christina Quintero. Previous publisher Daniel Nayeri is stepping down to write full time. At Orbit, Nivia Evans has been promoted to senior editor; Angela Man has been promoted to publicist; and Lisa Marie Pompilio to associate art director. Author Colson Whitehead will […]
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At Grand Central, Wes Miller has been promoted to executive editor, and Seema Mahanian to senior editor, Rachael Kelly and Carmel Shaka each become assistant editor, and Kirsiah McNamara becomes assistant editor and digital & paperback coordinator. Albert Tang becomes vice president, creative director. Andy Dodds has been promoted to publicity director and Kamrun Nesa to senior publicist. Joseph Benincase becomes assistant director, marketing and Morgan Swift associate marketing manager. At Forever, Estelle Hallick has been promoted to associate director, marketing & publicity, and Sam Brody to assistant editor. Robert Messenger will join Simon & Schuster as senior editor, starting March 1, where he will “acquire […]
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Yezanira Venecia has joined Soho Press as assistant editor acquiring for the Soho Crime imprint. She was previously at Skyhorse Publishing. Shannon Fabricant has been promoted to executive editor at Running Press; Britny Brooks to associate editor; and Marissa Raybuck and Rachel Peckman to designer. Kara Thornton has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, Running Press and Black Dog & Leventhal. Adriann Ranta Zurhellen has joined Folio Literary Management as literary agent. She was most recently at YRG Partners and Foundry. At Sourcebooks, Katia Herrara has been promoted to senior manager of ecommerce and Morgan Vogt to online marketing […]
New Books Publishing February 23
This week, a smaller selection of new books publishing includes Jennifer Ryan’s The Kitchen Front, a Library Reads selection, as well as a new biography of Tom Stoppard by Hermione Lee. 9 new works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-february-23 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Fiction_Publishing_February_/218851 new nonfiction titles https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-february-23 https://shop.aer.io/publishers_lunch/cl/New_Nonfiction_Publishing_February_/218852 We consult a number of sources in compiling our weekly lists and PM members can see our lists for the coming three months through this reference page. But if you want to make sure your key titles are on our radar, now you can use this form to submit brief details as well: publun.ch/submitNotable. Please submit your notable titles at least […]
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At Little, Brown, Lena Little has been promoted to director of publicity; Katharine Myers to senior director of publicity; Pam Brown to executive director of marketing; Juliana Horbachevsky to associate director of publicity, Spark and Voracious; and Sareena Kamath and Elizabeth Gassman both move up to assistant editor. At James Patterson, Denise Roy becomes editorial director; Dan Denning is now marketing associate; and Caitlyn Averett moves up to assistant editor, Jimmy Patterson. Hilary Strong will become ceo of UK and Europe at International Literary Properties, expanding her former UK role. Tanusri Prasanna is joining DeFiore and Company as an agent. […]
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Christopher Hohns has joined DK as vp, commercial finance, for North America. He was previously co-chief transformation lead at Arvato Supply Chain Solutions, part of the Bertelsmann Group. Stina Andersson has been named the new ceo of Bonnier Group, the parent company of Bonnier Books UK, effective September 1. She is currently the chief operating officer at trade and service businesses giant Axel Johnson. Jennifer Ung has joined Quill Tree Books as executive editor. She was at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Also at Harper Children’s, David Curtis has been promoted to design manager. Emily Greenhouse has been named editor of The […]