Claire Eddy has been promoted to executive editor at Tor/Forge Books. Carina Guiterman joined Simon & Schuster editor as editor. She was previously at Little, Brown. Jackson Howard was promoted to assistant editor at Farrar, Straus. Alexis Gilbert has joined Grand Central Publishing’s marketing team as assistant director of advertising. Caroline Eisenmann has been promoted to agent at Frances Goldin Literary Agency. At Hachette Book Group, Dylan Hoke has been promoted to the newly created role of senior vice president, publishing operations and strategy. Ruiko Tokunaga becomes executive director, print production. In the UK, former Ebury executive Jake Lingwood will join Octopus […]
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Lindsey Rose will join Dutton as executive editor, acquiring commercial fiction including thrillers and suspense, starting January 22. Most recently she was senior editor at Grand Central. At Crown, Meghan Houser has been promoted to editor; Rose Fox to associate editor; and Jon Darga and Jillian Buckley to assistant editor. Donna Loffredo has been promoted to senior editor for Harmony Books and Rodale Books, and Michele Eniclerico moves up to associate editor for the two lines. In the Crown rights department, Rachel Berkowitz becomes deputy director of foreign rights and Claire Posner moves up to associate manager, subsidiary rights. Lisa Yoskowitz has been promoted to editorial director, nonfiction at Little, Brown Children’s. […]
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Naomi Gibbs has been promoted to senior editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Richard Rhorer has been promoted to vp and deputy publisher of the Simon & Schuster Publishing Group. At Westwood Creative Artists, Meg Wheeler has been promoted to associate agent, representing writers of literary and commercial fiction as well as non-fiction. She will continue to assist Bruce Westwood and act as rights associate under WCA’s international rights director Carolyn Forde. Forthcoming An early galley for Leslie Jamison‘s collection of essays Make It Scream, Make It Burn — named for this 2013 essay in the Oxford American, and publishing in October 2019 […]
Dark Horse Sells Stake to Chinese Investor; Former Bonnier Execs Launch New Publisher; Even Kobe Bryant Is A Publisher Now
Dark Horse Comics founder and ceo Mike Richardson sold a substantial stake in the company — for what one report suggests was about $20 million — to Hong-Kong based Vanguard Visionary Assets, associated with former Walt Disney Company in Greater China chairman Stanley Cheung. Cheung joins the five-person Dark Horse Entertainment board. Richardson declined to say he retained a majority share, saying he retained a “large chunk” of the company. He said Vanguard had invested “into a number of areas, including a stock purchase… a development fund and a film fund,” with “investment in the publishing and product divisions, and expansion […]
People, Etc.: A New S&S Imprint, and More
Simon & Schuster is launching a new imprint, Avid Reader Press, inspired by “the spirit invoked” in former Simon & Schuster editor-in-chief Robert Gottlieb’s memoir Avid Reader, with its first titles launching in late 2019 or early 2020. Jofie Ferrari-Adler will serve as vice president and publisher of the new line, and Ben Loehnen is vice president and editor in chief, both moving over from their current positions as executive editors at S&S. They will hire “at least one more senior editorial partner who will specialize in fiction, while also building a dedicated staff across editorial, publicity, and marketing.” Ferrari-Adler and Loehnen […]
People: Szczerban to Run New Illustrated Imprint
Little, Brown announced that it would create a new imprint for illustrated books, with Michael Szczerban promoted to editorial director of the new line. Launching in fall 2019, the imprint “will grow to publish 20 to 25 titles a year.” Associate editor Nicky Guerreiro will move over to the imprint, and new hires will include a dedicated marketer. Publisher Reagan Arthur says in the announcement, “The mission of the new imprint is to publish distinctive, bestselling illustrated books of the highest quality that entertain, inform, and inspire—while expanding the possibilities of visually-driven nonfiction and connecting readers to their passions. “The authors and […]