Mary Krienke has been promoted to agent at Sterling Lord Literistic. Elizabeth Vogt has been promoted to associate editor at Viking Penguin. Hannah Ladds will join the Madeleine Milburn Agency as dramatic rights agent on October 5. She was most recently at David Higham Associates. Harper Children’s announced a new leadership structure at their flagship Harper imprint, with vp, director of publishing, the Harper Group Rich Thomas leading the line. VP, publishing director, Nancy Inteli will lead the picture book and programs teams and vp, publishing director Erica Sussman will lead the middle grade, teen, and IP teams. Both will […]
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Gisselda Nuñez will join HarperCollins in the new role of vp, diversity, equity, and inclusion on September 21. Nuñez will “lead and advise the company on DE&I initiatives, creating a strategy/vision that aligns with HarperCollins’s values and culture.” She was previously executive director, head of diversity strategy at Morgan Stanley. Amanda Armstrong-Frank has been promoted to the new role of director of workplace culture and diversity initiatives at Simon & Schuster. Armstrong-Frank will “advise, advocate, and act to improve workplace culture, including diverse representation at all levels,” reporting to both Jonathan Karp and the ViacomCBS office of global inclusion under […]
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Nicholas Ciani has been promoted to editor at One Signal/Atria. Sarah Rubio is joining WaterBrook and Multnomah as executive editor, reporting to Laura Barker and spearheading acquisitions for the children’s list. Most recently she was senior editor for children’s and young adult titles at Tyndale House. Bunmi Ishola also joins the company as editor, reporting to Rubio. She has worked at Kidsbooks Publishing and Sourcebooks Kids. Crystal Orazu has joined Context Literary Agency as a junior agent. Previously, she worked at the Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity at Pomona College. Britt Siess is no longer with Martin […]
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Publisher of Harper Business Hollis Heimbouch has been promoted to senior vice president. Beth Bugler has been promoted to creative director at The Experiment. At Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull, Lena Moses-Schmitt and Sarah Jean Grimm have each been promoted to senior publicity manager. Westwood Creative Artists has formed a management committee “to ensure the continued success and long term viability of the business,” comprising Jackie Kaiser, Hilary McMahon, Michael Levine, John Pearce, and Bruce Westwood. Sarah Anderson has joined VIZ Media as director, publishing sales. She was previously client publishing director at Simon & Schuster UK. Imprints Post Hill Press’s Bombardier Books […]
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Vanessa Campos has joined D4EO Literary Agency as an agent. She was previously sales and marketing director of Entrepreneur Press. Mariah Nichols has been promoted to literary agent. Imprints In the UK, Hodder & Stoughton has created the Hodder Studio imprint, which “brings together creative minds from a wide range of backgrounds and media industries.” and is “acquiring books with international aspirations, exploring original partnerships and developing new relationships with audiences.” The imprint will include audio, and the first books launch in October 2020 through to 2022. Jamie Hodder-Williams heads the imprint and Myfanwy Moore is publisher. (Moore was previously a TV […]
Briefs: Mary Trump’s Continuing Sales, and More
Mary Trump’s TOO MUCH AND NEVER ENOUGH sold over 1.35 million units across all formats during its first week on sale in the US, Simon & Schuster reported. Another hardcover reprint will give them 1.35 million copies in print when it delivers. That suggests continuing sales of about 400,000 units after pre-orders and the first day on sale, and an added 200,000 hardcovers in print since their first sales announcement a week ago. NPD Bookscan charted sales of over 337,000 hardcovers in the channels they measure, through July 18. Russell Ackerman and John Schoenfelder at Addictive Picture and producer Jay […]