Sarah Malarkey will join Ten Speed Press as an executive editor, reporting to Lorena Jones. She was previously executive editorial director at Chronicle Books for two decades. At Mountaineers Books, publisher for 20 years Helen Cherullo will move into the role of executive director of conservation and advancement on March 1 to focus on philanthropic development. Director of finance and operations Tom Helleberg will succeed her as publisher. Darryl Booker will move up to director of sales and marketing. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Katherine Devendorf has been promoted to executive managing editor. Julia McCarthy becomes associate editor at Atheneum. Michelle […]
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Three employees of Wayne State University Press who were fired earlier this month will return to work on Tuesday. The university let go editor-in-chief Annie Martin; design and production manager Kristin Harpster; and sales/marketing director Emily Nowak on February 14 without providing a reason. The firings resulted in a public outcry, including from the editorial board and sixty writers, editors and people who are affiliated with the press. Additionally, The Detroit News reports that a representative for Wayne State said the university re-hired interim director Kathryn Wildfong to make personnel decisions moving forward. In advance of the London Book Fair, […]
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At Bonnier Books UK, Ciara Lloyd has been promoted to editorial director at John Blake Publishing. Beth Eynon becomes senior editor at Blink Publishing. Madiya Altaf moves up to to assistant editor at Blink Publshing. Marina de Pass and Niamh O’Grady have both been promoted to associate agent at The Soho Agency. Former longtime editor at St. Martin’s Hope Dellon, 67, died recently. There is a service on Sunday. Author Charles Finch remembers her in this thread online. Imprints Flatiron Books has paired with the iHeartPodcast Network for a new imprint called Stuff You Should Read: An iHeartBook. The line […]
Authors and Colleagues Remember Sonny Mehta
Knopf held a celebration of the life of Sonny Mehta at the New York Public Library’s Celeste Bartos Fourm — “a room Sonny loved” — on Wednesday afternoon, featuring remarks from 11 authors and colleagues. “We are assembled in a vast Cathedral of books,” James Ellroy said. “The great Sonny Mehta, the great publisher of the world, English language, worshipped the printed word on paper and we are here to celebrate this brilliant, reckless, dedicated man’s temporal journey, and to pray and wish him onward to his soul’s repose.” He noted later, “We hitched our star to Sonny Mehta. We […]
People, Etc.: Crichton Named Holt Editor-in-Chief
Sarah Crichton will return to Macmillan as editor in chief at Holt on April 6. She ran the Sarah Crichton Books imprint at Macmillan’s Farrar, Straus for 15 years, until the line was eliminated. Holt publisher Amy Einhorn writes, “Gifted in both fiction and nonfiction, she is a natural leader, and, most importantly, a passionate advocate for her authors.” She adds, “During her 25 years in book publishing, Sarah has cultivated the kind of eclectic list all publishers dream of.” Crichton was publisher of Little, Brown prior to setting up her imprint. Shaquona Crews will join Quirk Books as the […]
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Matt Klise has been promoted to associate editor at Penguin Books. April Wills has joined Sourcebooks as managing editor, children’s and YA. Annie Hwang has joined Ayesha Pande Literary as an agent. She was at Folio Literary Management. Alison Lewis has been promoted to agent at the Zoë Pagnamenta Agency. Ashley Runyon will return to the University Press of Kentucky on March 11 as director. Most recently, she ran the trade list for Indiana University Press and Red Lightning Books. Michael Millman joins the University of New Mexico Press as a senior acquisitions editor. He was previously with Viking and […]