Carole DeSanti will leave Viking, where she is vp, executive editor, on June 1 after more than 30 years with the company “achieving a singular mixture of critical and commercial success and modeling the importance of the fierce editorial advocacy she offered all of her authors,” according to Viking publisher Andrea Schulz. She added in…
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Penguin Random House Australia conducted “a review of our structure ” and found they “no longer require the role of publishing director-Penguin Random House Literary” (comprising Hamish Hamilton, Vintage, Knopf, Viking and Penguin). As a result, Penguin veteran Ben Ball has left the company. The team for the Literary division (created last year) will now…
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Will Lippincott has joined Aevitas Creative Management as an agent, based in Los Angeles. Previously he was an agent and founding partner at Lippincott, Massie & McQuilkin until he left there in late 2016 “to find new paths.” At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Nicole Ellul has been promoted to editor for Simon Pulse; Sarah McCabe becomes associate…
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Tracey Guest has been promoted to vice president, executive director of publicity for St. Martin’s. Franklin & Siegal Associates has added adult scouting to their work for Aschehoug in Norway, while continuing with YA and middle grade. Imprints Random House Children’s is launching a new graphic novel imprint, Random House Graphic, in fall 2019. Gina Gagliano will lead the…
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Initiatives The New York City Mayor’s Office of Entertainment and Media’s One Book, One New York program will return for a second year. In April, NYC residents will vote online to determine the title that will be read city-wide, with the winner to be announced in early May. The nominees this year each feature a different neighborhood in…
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Marie-Claire Wastiaux will retire as secretary general and chief financial officer of Hachette Livre on July 1. She will be succeeded by Fabrice Bakhouche, who has been promoted to deputy secretary general and deputy chief financial officer. Hachette Livre ceo Arnaud Nourry said in the announcement: “Marie-Claire Wastiaux’s exactness, skill and enthusiasm have contributed to…