Michael Campbell joins becker&mayer! in the new position of vp, sales, marketing & new business development. He has previously been director of sales and marketing at three Pacific Northwest publishers: Martingale, Timber Press, and most recently Graphic Arts. Ryan Kelly joins the company as international sales associate (he worked in specialty retail sales for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Amy Levenson has been promoted to group manager, international sales. Debbie Harmsen joins BenBella Books as editor-in-chief of the general nonfiction line. She has worked for magazines, newspapers and book publishers, most recently editing travel guides at Random House. HCI Books has […]
New Imprints
New Imprints: Grand Central Creates Life & Style, and Rejt Starts Pan Macmillan Line
Grand Central will fold its Springboard Press and Wellness Central lines into a newly-christened Grand Central Life & Style imprint, starting in fall 2010. They will publish eight to 12 titles a year across categories including style (beauty and fashion), food (cooking), body & mind (diet, fitness, self-help, and inspiration), home (organization, design, and green living) and connections (relationships, parenting and pets). Karen Murgolo continues to oversee this publishing, as editorial director of the new line. In the UK, Pan Macmillan publishing director Maria Rejt will run her own imprint, Mantle, which launches in May with Scott Turow’s new book. […]
People: Paulsen to Launch Eponymous Children's Imprint; Knopf and Random Canada Merge Editorially; and More
President and publisher of Putnam Children’s for the last 15 years Nancy Paulsen will launch an eponymous imprint, Nancy Paulsen Books in 2011. She plans to publish 12 to 15 picture books, middle grade and young adult novels a uear. Paulsen will keep her current position until a replacement is named, with a search underway now. Paulsen says in the announcement, “I am thrilled with the opportunity to return to my true passion full time–editing. My imprint will focus on publishing a select group of picture books that are eye-opening and inventive, along with fiction, from culturally diverse and distinct […]
A New Alliance for Weldon Owen; Goodreads Raises $2 Mil
File this one under press releases gone astray: a number of outlets have looked at a vaguely-worded announcement that “Weldon Owen Publishing has joined Bonnier Corp.” and concluded that Bonnier bought the packager/publisher. True enough–but the Bonnier Group has owned Weldon Owen since early 2006. What they mean to announce is that Weldon Owen has moved from the company’s book publishing division (where co-founder of the packager John Owen has been group publisher) over to their US magazine division, which is called Bonnier Corp. That group is run by Terry Snow, and was created by merging Snow’s group of enthusiast […]
Dutton and Riverhead Create Redeemer Imprint with Author
Timothy Keller, author of The Reason for God and The Prodigal God and head of Manhattan’s Redeemer Presbyterian Church–at the center of “contextualized urban ministry, thoughtful preaching, and church planting” across major cities–has expanded his publishing relationship with two Penguin Group lines. His hardcover publisher Dutton and paperback publisher Riverhead are creating a Redeemer imprint with Keller, to launch in 2011, negotiated with David McCormick at McCormick & Williams. Redeemer expects to issue two books a year by Keller to start, with Dutton publisher Brian Tart editing. Keller says in the announcement, “I look forward to making this imprint a […]
More Imprint News: Turner Launches His Own Line, and OR Books' First Paperback Partner
Nine years at a London conference called Publishing in 2010 we babbled on about how editors would become the focus of many small imprints (akin to Hollywood’s production companies), and now comes news of veteran editor Philip Turner funding and launching an eponymous imprint starting next year. Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group will “host” the Philip Turner Books line, which brings Turner back together with NBN president Rich Freese, who ran PGW when they distributed Carroll & Graf when Turner worked there. With no fixed number of titles a year, Turner intends to publish “when dynamic opportunities arise.” That first […]