Former employees of Dorchester report that ceo John Prebich (who also ran the company’s magazine division, Dorchester Media) left the company on Friday. Queries to Prebich and other remaining employees were not answered. Rob Crawford will join The Overlook Press as editor on November 29. He has been an assistant editor at Harper. Nicholas Brealey Publishing has hired Hillary Park as publicist. She has formerly worked as associate publicist at Putnam and Riverhead and event marketing manager for Borders. The company has also partnered with Shelton Interactive to develop a new social media platform and website, and is working with […]
New Imprints
Peripatetic Penzler Moves Again, Now to Grove/Atlantic
Otto Penzler, who has been publishing through Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in the US for the past six years, is relaunching the Mysterious Press imprint with his newest publishing partner, Grove/Atlantic. Penzler reacquired the imprint’s name from Hachette Book Group, having sold the original Mysterious Press to Warner Books in 1989. That move parallels Penzler’s relocation in the UK, where moved his line to Grove/Atlantic spin-off Atlantic Books, as part of the new Corvus division led by Anthony Cheetham, last November. (Cheetham has previously set up Penzler’s line at his former company Quercus, after almost setting it up at Random UK’s […]
It’s Official: Rosenthal to Start Imprint at Penguin in 2011
Former publisher of the Simon & Schuster imprint David Rosenthal will indeed join Penguin, where he will set up a new, unnamed general trade imprint. He will start there on January 10, reporting to president Susan Petersen Kennedy. Launching in fall 2011, the imprint will comprise “an eclectic mix” of hardcover fiction and nonfiction, including suspense fiction, popular biography, literary novels, humor, music, and contemporary politics. The goal is to l “ultimately publish between 24 and 36 original titles per year.” How many of those will be former Simon & Schuster authors? Kennedy says to the NYT, “he has a […]
People, Imprints, Awards, Etc.
Lindsay Sagnette will join Crown as senior editor, acquiring hardcover fiction, reporting to Molly Stern and starting November 15. She was most recently an editor at St. Martin’s, following stints at Riverhead and Grove/Atlantic. Jeanette Perez is being promoted to senior editor at Harper One, acquiring primarily non-fiction in the areas of personal growth, health, lifestyle, and memoir. Kristin Daly Rens has been promoted to senior editor at Harper Children’s imprint Balzer & Bray. Atria is launching an imprint in conjunction with music label Cash Money Records, which issues records from Lil Wayne and others. Publishing under Cash Money Content, […]
People, Etc.
Nicole Dewey will join Little, Brown as executive director of publicity, starting November 15 and reporting to vp, marketing director Heather Fain. She has been executive director of publicity at Henry Holt. Director of the University of Texas Press since 1992 Joanna Hitchcock announced that she will retire at the end of February. She said, “I’ve been at the helm for almost a third of the Press’s 60-year existence and it is time for new leadership.” Erzsi Deà k is now scouting for both children’s imprints of La Martinière Groupe in France: Le Seuil Jeunesse and La Martinière Jeunesse. She works […]
Harlequin “Rebranding” Will Eliminate Silhouette Name
As part of a “re-envisioning” of their brand and logos conducted with the help of Pentagram, Harlequin has written to authors, informing them that the Silhouette name will be retired in April 2011. Executives Donna Hayes and Loriana Sacilotto write that the various Silhouette series will all become Harlequin-branded lines. “As you know, Silhouette Nocturne became Harlequin Nocturne in June of this year. Special Edition, Romantic Suspense and Desire will appear with their new Harlequin brand in April. Rebranding the Silhouette series as Harlequin will ensure that these series benefit from the promotional resources dedicated to the Harlequin brand and […]