Nicholas Ciani has been promoted to editor at One Signal/Atria. Sarah Rubio is joining WaterBrook and Multnomah as executive editor, reporting to Laura Barker and spearheading acquisitions for the children’s list. Most recently she was senior editor for children’s and young adult titles at Tyndale House. Bunmi Ishola also joins the company as editor, reporting to Rubio. She has worked at Kidsbooks Publishing and Sourcebooks Kids. Crystal Orazu has joined Context Literary Agency as a junior agent. Previously, she worked at the Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity at Pomona College. Britt Siess is no longer with Martin […]
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Bridget Monroe Itkin has been promoted to senior editor at Artisan Books. Wah-Ming Chang has been promoted to vice president of company culture and senior managing editor, books at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull. In the UK, Lucy Hale has been hired for the new role of publisher for Pan, reporting to Jeremy Trevathan. She had been deputy ceo of Hodder & Stoughton, Headline, Quercus and John Murray until last October, when her position was eliminated. Before working for Hachette UK, Hale had been at Pan Macmillan as UK sales director and international sales director. Audio New publisher Levine Querido has an exclusive […]
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Rudy Martinez has been promoted to director of marketing at Soho Press. Matt Williams has joined Ingenta as head of professional services. He was previously with Zinfi, Relayware, Semantec, Lenovo, and IBM. Heather Lantz has been promoted to the new role of director of business growth. Steve Rutberg has joined knk Software as business development manager of the North American team. He was previously sales director at HighWire Press. KaToya Ellis Fleming has joined Lookout Books of UNC Wilmington as editor and assistant professor of publishing. Fleming was previously an editor at the Oxford American magazine. Bertelsmann ceo Thomas Rabe has […]
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Liza Baker will be promoted to vp, publisher in the Scholastic Trade publishing division as of September 7, reporting to Ellie Berger. Baker will oversee the publishing and editorial direction for the young readers’ imprints, including Cartwheel, Orchard, Acorn, and Branches. She will report to Ellie Berger, President of Scholastic Trade Publishing. Berger says in the announcement, “I am delighted she will be at the helm creating engaging content for our youngest readers and look forward to seeing our list grow and innovate under her leadership.” At the same time, Ken Geist will transition to vp, publisher-at-large, following a move […]
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Danya Kukafka will join Aevitas Creative Management as an agent, representing select projects alongside Michelle Brower. Previously, she was an assistant editor at Riverhead. Loan Le has been promoted to editor at Atria, reporting to Lindsay Sagnette. Allison Lewis has joined Sourcebooks as marketing specialist. At Bonnier Books UK Helen Wicks has been promoted to executive director for children’s trade and Elise Burns to group sales, marketing and PR director. Historian and author Bernard Bailyn, 97, “whose award-winning books on early American history reshaped the study of the origins of the American Revolution,” died on Friday. Best known for The […]
HBG Starts Limited Re-Opening, But Recommends Remote Work “For the Foreseeable Future”
Hachette Book Group has started limited “Phase 1 openings” of their offices in Boulder, CO and Philadelphia, PA and will start the same next Monday in Boston and New York, but ceo Michael Pietsch emphasized to employees in a letter that it provides “only for people with a strong desire or need to be in the office, and daily attendance in each location is restricted to 10-15 percent of office capacity.” Beyond those first steps, he wrote, “We do not have any specific plans or timeline to move to further reopening phases at any HBG location at this time. Our […]