At Knopf Children’s Books, Erin Clarke has been promoted to senior executive editor and Katherine Harrison has been promoted to editor; and Samantha Gentry has been promoted to assistant editor at Crown Children’s. Simon & Schuster Children’s has hired Sarah Creech as senior designer for Simon Pulse (she was at HarperCollins). KeriLee Horan has been promoted to marketing manager, continuing to report to Chrissy Noh. At Curtis Brown, Sarah Perillo has been promoted to foreign rights manager, continuing to report to Jonathan Lyons, and now overseeing the licensing of adult titles in the UK and Australia. Former UK prime minister David Cameron, who announced recently he will give up his seat in […]
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Deb Brody will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial director for lifestyle & culinary on July 18. Previously she was executive editor at William Morrow. Michael Strother has joined Harlequin Teen as editor. Previously he was an editor at Simon Pulse. Jermey Matthews will join MIT Press as acquisitions editor, physical sciences, engineering and math. Previously he was books editor at Physics Today. Patricia Kelly has been appointed general manager of Lonely Planet’s Oakland, CA location, in addition to her current role as director of sales, Americas. Cliff Manko has joined Beacon Press as chief financial officer. He was svp finance […]
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At Scribner, Shannon Welch has been promoted to executive editor. At Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, Danielle Burby has been promoted to agent and foreign rights manager. Paula Canal will join Indent Literary Agency as a literary agent and foreign rights director. She has spent the past 17 years as foreign rights manager at Anagrama and will continue to handle all foreign rights for the company from her post at Indent. At New World Library, Jason Gardner has been promoted to executive editor. At McGraw-Hill Professional, Cheryl Ringer has been promoted to editor, business group. At the UK’s Folio Prize, executive […]
People: Harlequin Launches Park Row Books Imprint, and More
Harlequin will launch a new imprint, Park Row Books, in summer 2017, with a focus on “thought-provoking and voice-driven novels” that have “mainstream appeal.” Executive editor for the imprint Erika Imranyi told the AP: “We’ve been growing that part of our business for a very long time. It’s a small piece of what we do, but a really important piece.” Park Row Books is named for the street where Harlequin’s offices were once located. Separately, the rebranded HQ imprint in the UK (combining Harlequin UK and Mira UK, as an imprint of Harper UK), has announced the acquisition of their […]
McDonald Named Publisher of New FSG Imprint, and More
Sean McDonald has been named publisher of a newly created imprint at Farrar, Straus, MCD/FSG. The imprint’s goal, according to the announcement, is to “create a space to publish work and experiment with publishing styles, forms, and genres that are at the edges of FSG’s traditions and/or are new enough to have no tradition.” McDonald will be joined at MCD/FSG by former Amazon Publishing editor-in-chief and publisher Daphne Durham, named executive editor, working from Seattle. McDonald says in the announcement, “When Jonathan [Galassi] suggested this—to create what he called a kind of lab in which we could find new ways […]
Now Michael Mann Has An Imprint, at HarperCollins; Jackson to Reboot One World; and More
After announcing a couple of book deals with himself via Deadline.com, writer/director Michael Mann is reported to have made a deal for his eponymous imprint with HarperCollins. David Highfill is said to be overseeing the books for the publisher, acquiring world rights to three Mann-co-authored books, sold by Shane Salerno at The Story Factory and attorney Harold Brown. The first title is by Mann and fellow Salerno client Don Winslow, a novel about the complex relationship between organized crime figures Tony Accardo and Sam Giancana for publication in 2017. The second will be a prequel to Mann’s Heat. Separately, Spiegel & Grau executive editor Chris Jackson […]