Pilar Garcia-Brown has been promoted to editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Rachel Neely will joining Trapeze as a commissioning editor. She has been at Quercus. The Association of American Publishers (AAP)’s Award for Distinguished Public Service is being given to Professor Jeffrey Rosen, for his “principled dedication to both the creative process and the democratic exchange of idea. Rosen is an author, president and ceo of the National Constitution Center, and a law professor at the George Washington University. The AAP will hold a virtual annual meeting in June, and Rosen will address the group then in accepting the award.
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Grace Rambo has been promoted to digital operations manager at The Experiment. At Talcott Notch Literary Services, Saba Sulaiman has been promoted to agent. Paula Munier becomes agent and storytelling and content director. Tia Mele has added a new role as audio rights director. Jackie Ashton has joined Lucinda Literary as agent, with a focus on popular science, business, narrative nonfiction, memoir, and upmarket fiction. Anchor has moved up the paperback publication date for Colson Whitehead‘s Pulitzer-winning THE NICKEL BOYS to June 30. Briefs For the first time, 37 literary agents and agencies in Italy have come together to form […]
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Karen Murgolo will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial director, lifestyle on May 26. She was most recently an agent at Aevitas Creative Management, after serving as editorial director of Grand Central Life & Style since its inception. Murgolo will oversee the HMH lifestyle and culinary editorial team. At Macmillan Children’s, Hayley Jozwiak has been promoted to senior managing editor; Ilana Worrell to senior production editor; Cassie Gonzalez to designer; and Debbie Cobb to senior coordinator. Marian Wood, former vice president and publisher of Marian Wood Books and Sue Grafton’s longtime editor, died last weekend. She began her career at […]
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Alexis Nixon has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Berkley. KF Literary Scouting has been appointed adult scout for Hoffman und Campe in Germany, and will also continue scouting children’s and YA titles for Harper Germany. Relief The extended #SaveIndieBookstores campaign raised a total of $1.24 million. Events Book Expo said it will hold an extensive line-up of panels online May 26-29, including its Adult Buzz Panel and its Adult and Children’s Book Breakfasts (which have been moved to dinner time), and a number of BookCon virtual consumer events will follow over the weekend. More information will be announced soon. Meanwhile, we […]
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Marta Fleming has been promoted to director of international rights at Macmillan, working on St. Martin’s, Flatiron, Tor/Forge, and Celadon Books. At St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Courtney Littler becomes senior editor, focusing on Castle Point Books and the Griffin Puzzle Program, and Joe Goldschein has been promoted to vp, marketing & sales operations. At Macmillan Speakers Bureau, Chloe Volkwein was promoted to lecture agent. Forthcoming Knopf will publish TOGETHER IN A SUDDEN STRANGENESS: AMERICA’S POETS RESPOND TO THE PANDEMIC on June 9 in ebook and audio, with a hardcover to follow in November. The book features new, mostly not-yet-published work by […]
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At Macmillan Audio, Morgan Ratner has been promoted to podcast marketing specialist and Emily Miller to digital associate. At St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Marissa Sangiacomo has been promoted to assistant marketing director; Michelle Cashman to senior marketing manager; D.J. DeSmyter to senior marketing manager; Allison Ziegler to senior marketing manager; Meaghan Leahy to senior marketing operations manager; Beatrice Jason to associate marketing manager; and Stephen Erickson to assistant marketing manager. Brenna English-Loeb has been promoted to literary agent at Transatlantic Agency. Audio Yale University Press has launched Yale Press Audio, featuring one to four audiobooks a year with plans to “grow […]