At Chronicle Books, Melissa Manlove and Naomi Kristen have both been promoted to senior editor, children’s. Scholarly publisher Emerald has hired Philippa Grand, PhD as editorial director, social science books and publisher, sociology, criminology & social policy. Pete Baker runs their scholarly and professional business, finance and economics books division, Jenny McCall has joined as a publisher, and Amy Potter is their new head of books marketing. Author of the National Book Award winner The Women of Brewster Place, Gloria Naylor, 66, died last Wednesday of heart failure. Awards In Canada, the shortlists were announced for the Governor General’s Literary Awards. The fiction list includes […]
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At Putnam, Ashley Hewlett has been promoted to publicity manager, while Elena Hershey moves up to senior publicist. Melissa Ceraso has been named editor in mathematics and the natural sciences, and Jason Simon has been hired as senior web developer for Choice, the reviews publication from the Association of College and Research Libraries. At Glitterati Incorporated, Conor Romack has been promoted to sales & projects manager. In the UK, Simon Thorogood will move to Canongate from Headline as editorial director at the end of August, and Hannah Knowles will join the publisher as senior commissioning editor in November (she is currently at Octopus). Weston Woods Studios founder Morton […]
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Emma Dries has joined Ecco as an assistant editor. She was an editorial assistant at Knopf Doubleday. At Pegasus Books, Katie McGuire has been promoted to assistant editor. Kristin Dulaney has joined Macmillan Children’s as executive director of subsidiary rights. She was at Little Brown Children’s. Michelle Yandre joined BlueBottleBiz recently as PR manager. Longtime Ten Speed Press editor Veronica “Fuzzy” Randall, 61, died August 12 from cancer. Randall joined Ten Speed Press in 1990 and was senior editor upon her retirement in 2009. Publisher Aaron Wehner notes, “She had a great sense of humor, an infectious laugh, and a remarkable way with words. Fuzzy […]
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Pocket senior editor Abby Zidle will move over to Gallery Books Group marketing team as associate director of marketing. Shelby Howick has been promoted to associate publicist in the Grand Central publicity group. In obituaries, novelist and son of John Steinbeck, Thomas Steinbeck died last Thursday, at age 72. And founder of Hugo Books bookstore in Newburyport, MA Robert “Bob” W. Hugo, also 72, died on July 27. Awards James Shapiro‘s 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear and Benjamin Markovits‘s novel You Don’t Have to Live Like This won the UK’s two James Tait Black prizes. Kindle Unlimited Amazon’s retrospective payout allocation for […]
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Longtime Norton editor James L. Mairs, 77, died July 26 of heart failure, while also battling leukemia and Parkinson’s disease. Mairs first joined Norton as a traveling college sales representative in 1963 and rose through the ranks, promoted to vice president in 1970 and a company director in 1973. Mairs officially retired from Norton in 2002 but continued working at the same office both as editor of additional Norton books, including Jung’s The Red Book in 2009, and as founder and head of his own, one-man publishing house, Quantuck Lane Press, distributed by Norton. Norton president and chairman Drake McFeely […]
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At Macmillan, Nora Flaherty has been promoted to the expanded role of vp, client publisher sales and distribution. She will oversee the entire third-party distribution area including sales, operations, business development and distribution. Diana Gill will join Tor/Forge as executive editor. Previously she was executive editor at Berkley’s Ace and Roc imprints. Amy Sefton has also been named designer in the ad/promo department. Previously she was an in-house graphic designer and illustrator for BuzzFeed. In addition, the division announced a number of recent editorial promotions. At Tor, Liz Gorinsky and Miriam Weinberg are both promoted to senior editor; Jennifer Gunnels and Diana Pho […]