At Hachette Book Group, Dale Wilstermann has been promoted to executive director, Nashville sales; Derek Meehan to senior manager, telephone sales; Laura Fernandez to client sales manager; and Dominique Delmas to publicist at HBG Canada. Jack Dunnington has been promoted to designer at The Experiment. Amy Giuffrida and Jolene Haley have been promoted to agent apprentice at the Corvisiero Literary Agency. Friends and admirers reported online the death of publishing executive Teresa Mlawer on Saturday. Among her many positions in publishing, she became president of Lectorum Publications, the largest distributor of Spanish-language books in the US (later acquired by Scholastic), […]
Personnel
Briefs: People, Awards, Donations, Controversies and More
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Taryn Roeder has been promoted to vp, director of publicity and Michelle Triant to senior publicity manager. Shara Alexander has joined as associate director of publicity. At Abrams Children’s, Lora Grisafi has been promoted to senior designer, marketing. Natali Cavanagh has joined as marketing coordinator. She was previously marketing assistant at Little Brown Children’s. At Harper Children’s, Anna Bernard has been hired as senior publicist (she was at Bloomsbury Children’s) and Lauren Levite has joined as publicist (she was at Tor/Forge). Aubrey Churchward has been promoted to publicity manager, and Mitch Thorpe is now senior publicist. Tara […]
People, Etc.
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, Margaret Raymo has been promoted to senior editorial director of Versify and BFYR. Emilia Rhodes becomes editorial director of Etch and BFYR. Erika Turner moves up to senior editor at Versify. Chris Krones has been promoted to editor. Gabriella Abbate and Elizabeth Agyemang each become editorial associate. Tara Shanahan has been promoted to associate director of publicity and Anna Ravenelle to publicity associate. Matt Holt has joined BenBella as editor in chief of a new Matt Holt Books imprint. He was previously senior vice president and executive publisher at Wiley. Kaitlin Loss has joined Macmillan Children’s as assistant manager, subsidiary rights. She […]
People, Etc.: LBF Director to Leave, and More
Director of the London Book Fair Jacks Thomas will step down and leave Reed Exhibitions this summer after 7 years running the show. She had intended to announce her departure at this year’s LBF before the event was cancelled. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Stephanie Fletcher has been promoted to senior editor. Jenny Xu has been promoted to associate editor. Liz Kossnar has joined Little, Brown Children’s as a senior editor. Awards The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777, by Rick Atkinson has won the $50,000 New-York Historical Society Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize. The […]
Briefs: A New Wilkerson Book, Elliott Bay Unionizes, and More
People Liz Van Doren has been promoted to vp, executive editorial director at Highlights for Children. Forthcoming Isabel Wilkerson‘s next book, CASTE: THE ORIGINS OF OUR DISCONTENT, will be published by Random House on August 20. Her first book since the 2010 Pulitzer-winning The Warmth of Other Suns, it’s about “the human impulse to create hierarchies runs across societies and cultures.” Bookselling Workers at Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle have unionized, creating the newly formed Book Workers Union, which has been recognized by management. They write in their mission statement, “We organize because our people are what make Elliott […]
People, Etc.
At Hachette Audio, Nita Basu has been promoted to manager of marketing & publicity, and Ghenet Harvey moves up to audio coordinator. Awards The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced their annual literature awards, this year going to 19 writers. Poet Leslie Marmon Silko won the $100,000 Christopher Lightfoot Walker Award for “a significant contribution to American literature.” While most awards go to the writers for general achievement or accomplishment, Valeria Luiselli won a prize for Lost Children Archive, and Isabella Hammad won a first fiction prize for The Parisian. Go here for the complete list of recipients, awarded $350,000 […]