Katie McGuire has joined Tapas Media as novel acquisitions lead. She was previously editor at Pegasus Books. Updates The recently-announced increase in entry-level salaries for employees of Macmillan‘s US trade division does not apply to the separate education division, Macmillan Learning. Asked to comment, a spokesperson told PL, “We were not aware that our trade…
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Lindsay Guzzardo joins Martin Literary & Media Management as literary manager of adult fiction. She was previously editor at Amazon Publishing before working independently. Aria Gmitter joins Whimsy Literary Agency as literary agent. She is an editor and freelance writer and was previously literary assistant to Peter Miller of Global Lion Intellectual Property Management. Former…
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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…
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Abigail Walters, Carlos Segarra, Emily Westcott, and Alex Rice have each been promoted to agent at CAA. All four are based in New York. At Aitken Alexander Associates, Emma Paterson joins the board of directors. Chris Wellbelove becomes head of the book department. At Westwood Creative Artists, Emmy Nordstrom Higdon has joined as literary agent. They were previously at…
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Jennifer Sit has been promoted to executive editor at Clarkson Potter. Helen Garnons-Williams will join Penguin UK as publishing director for Fig Tree early next year. She is currently associate publisher at 4th Estate and William Collins. Jenna Jankowksi has been promoted to assistant editor at Sourcebooks. Former chief executive of Sage Paul Walker will take over…
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Longtime evp and general counsel of the Association of American Publishers Allan Adler will leave the organization on October 15. CEO Maria Pallante said: “With the Board of Directors, I want to thank Allan for his tireless public policy work on behalf of the publishing industry over the course of some 24 years. As a…