Colleen Boyle has been promoted to publicity manager at Penguin Press. Morgan Rath has been promoted to publicist at Macmillan Children’s. Publicist and book marketer Claire McKinney has founded Plum Bay Publishing, providing assisted self-publishing and some traditional publishing. Obituary Author and director of the University Press of Virginia Mark Saunders died over the weekend…
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Stuart Roberts has been promoted to senior editor at Simon & Schuster. Lauren Clauss joins Random House Children’s as associate editor (she was assistant editor at Disney Press); and Rachel Chlebowski has been promoted to associate editor. Mariam Quraishi has joined Chronicle as a designer, children’s. Previously she was junior designer at Viking Children’s. At…
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Lynn Grady left her position as publisher of Dey Street Books on Friday. Also at Harper Collins, Jace Molan has been promoted to senior director video, group executive producer, overseeing all video production across the general books and children’s groups, reporting to both Morrow Group president and publisher Liate Stehlik and children’s marketing & publicity…
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Longtime Knopf editor-at-large Gary Fisketjon “was dismissed for a breach of company policy,” a spokesperson confirmed to PL. Fisketjon was initially suspended, and then dismissed following an investigation. The publisher is in the process of informing his authors and their agents. Knopf staff say they were notified earlier this week. BuzzFeed published the results of…
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Welbeck Publishing Group is starting a commercial fiction imprint, Portland Press, launching in 2020 and focusing on crime, thrillers, romance and women’s fiction. Jon Elek will be lead the line as group publisher, fiction after 10 years as an agent, most recently at United Agents. Ali Hammond has joined the publisher relations team at BookBub,…
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Brenda Bowen will join The Book Group as senior agent, with a mission to grow the agency’s children’s business, particularly middle-grade fiction and picture books, starting July 1. She has been at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates since 2009. At Portfolio/Sentinel, Tara Gilbride was promoted to vp, director of marketing and publicity, following the departure of…