Nan A. Talese, president, publisher & editorial director of her own imprint at Doubleday, announced she will retire at the end of the year after six decades in publishing. She joined Random House in 1959 as a copyeditor and went on to work at Simon & Schuster and Houghton Mifflin, founding the Nan A. Talese…
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At Macmillan Children’s, Mekisha Telfer has been promoted to senior associate editor at Roaring Brook Press; Luisa Beguiristain to assistant editor at Roaring Brook Press; Melissa Warten to associate editor at Farrar, Straus Children’s; Elizabeth Lee to assistant editor at Farrar, Straus Children’s; and Robyn Chapman to editor at First Second. CEO of Taylor & Francis Annie…
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Hannah Rahill has been promoted to senior vice president, backlist strategy and development at the Random House Group, reporting to Gina Centrello. She will collaborate with cross-functional teams including RH Digital, RH Analytics, Consumer Insights, and Sales Management, to collect and distill emerging trends and market data and identify opportunities. Dave Snow, vice president, human…
Briefs: Ingram Reports Hack, and More
Ingram Content Group announced on Thursday that they had “recently identified unauthorized access within” CoreSource, their digital asset management and distribution platform. They report “a CoreSource customer’s account was used for unauthorized downloads of some publishers’ titles.” Those publishers have been alerted and Ingram is “working directly with them to monitor the situation.” They note,…
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At Abrams Children’s Books, Hallie Patterson has been promoted to director of publicity and Brooke Shearouse to publicity manager. In the UK, John Murray publisher Mark Richards and Profile Books commercial director Diana Broccardo have founded Swift Press. They expect to publish 6 to 8 titles in 2021. The principal investors are Geoffrey Faber Holdings…
Forthcoming: Gaga’s Book of Young People’s Stories, and More Ina Garten
Our deal reports are filling with London Book Fair-time acquisitions and announcements, even though the event has been cancelled, and this week should see more high-profile fall release news as well as a result. Lady Gaga’s Channel Kindness foundation has created a book of the same name: Feiwel and Friends will publish CHANNEL KINDNESS on…