Kelsey Nolan has joined Ze Books and Unnamed Press as a publicity and marketing manager. She previously worked at the Los Angeles Times as the events programming manager. Cindy Kim has been promoted to associate editor for Little Simon. Andree Abecassis, 81, died November 4 at home in Berkeley, CA, following a brief struggle with cancer. For many years she worked at Ann Elmo Agency, founded by two of her aunts, and recently she had started working with Heyday Books. Best of 2020 The New York Public Library released their Best Books package, which includes top 10s for adults, poetry, […]
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Hafizah Geter joins Janklow & Nesbit today as an agent. She was most recently editor at Amazon Publishing’s Little A and Topple Books. Julia Judge has been promoted to senior publicist at Verso Books. Rachel Vega-DeCesario has joined the New Press as assistant editor. She was previously editorial assistant at Black Dog and Leventhal. Hannah Strassburger has joined Sourcebooks as designer. Obituaries Longtime Grove Atlantic board member and executive editor Joan Bingham, 85, died on Saturday. She helped create Grove Atlantic through the merger of Grove Weidenfeld and Atlantic Monthly Press in 1993 and served on the board for the […]
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Christopher MacLehose is leaving the MacLehose Press imprint that he founded 13 years ago. Katharina Bielenberg will be promoted to publisher. Christy Ottaviano is leaving Holt Children’s, where she has worked for 28 years, to join Little, Brown Children’s on November 30. She will continue to publish there under a Christy Ottaviano Books imprint. Jessica Anderson is moving with her. Jay Pabarue has joined The New Press as marketing and publicity associate. He was previously marketing manager at Book of the Month. Randy Kessler, 50, national sales manager at Scholastic, died on October 22. He began working at Scholastic in […]
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Rio Cortez will join Harper Collins in the new role of sales and retail marketing manager, starting September 28, reporting to Christine Edwards, with a dotted line to Andrea Pappenheimer. Her focus will be to “continue to grow the overall sales of books by BIPOC authors across all channels, developing and executing a business plan to achieve growth for our BIPOC authors and titles across the marketplace.” Most recently, Cortez was the buyer and creative coordinator at the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. Joining Peter McGuigan at his recently-launched Ultra Literary are Kirsten Neuhaus […]
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Kristin Fassler will return to Penguin Random House on October 5, in the new role of svp, director of integrated marketing strategy for the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, reporting to Maya Mavjee. All divisional marketing functions will report to Fassler. She “will build and lead a state-of-the-art marketing department centralized across all imprints that incorporates title marketing, social media marketing, advertising, promotion and creative services, online optimization, audience development, consumer insights and analytics, and campaign ROI.” At Knopf, Chris Gillespie is being promoted to svp, publishing director, effective October 5, reporting to Reagan Arthur, helping with “the logistics of our […]
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People Natascha Morris joins The Tobias Literary Agency as literary agent where she will rep picture books, middle grade, and YA. She was previously a literary agent at Bookends. David Graeber, 59, anthropologist and author of Bull***t Jobs, died on September 2 in a hospital in Venice. His publisher FSG writes, “We are deeply saddened by the news of David Graeber’s untimely death. Graeber’s path-breaking scholarship and political activism were focused on imagining new forms of human freedom. The impact of his work on our intellectual life and the progress of humanity toward a more just future has been felt […]