At Random House Children’s, Jennifer Baker has joined as a managing editor. She was previously production editor for Teachers College Press. Jinna Shin has been promoted to assistant art director; Bob Bianchini to senior designer; April Ward to senior art director; Nicole de las Heras to senior art director; Tracy Tyler to senior executive art director; Roberta Ludlow to executive art director; and Alison Kolani to executive director, copyediting. Sara Birmingham has been promoted to associate editor at Ecco. Ben LeRoy has joined Crooked Lane Books as senior acquisitions editor focusing on crime fiction. He was previously founder and publisher of […]
Personnel
People, Etc.
At Berkley, Jen Monroe and Kristine Swartz have each been promoted to senior editor. Tiffany Shelton has been promoted to associate editor at St. Martin’s/Wednesday Books. At Chronicle Books, Lydia Ortiz has been promoted to senior designer, children’s; Beth Steiner to production director, purchasing & vendor management; and Erin Thacker to production director, creative development. OR Books co-founder John Oakes will step down as co-publisher on May 1. He will remain on the board and continue to edit current projects. Jacob Bronstein left Apple after almost 9 years at the company, most recently as senior marketing manager for Apple Podcasts, […]
People, Etc.
In the wake of John Fallon‘s plan to retire as chief executive of Pearson, longtime chief financial officer Coram Williams has read the signs and taken a “comparable role at a company based in Continental Europe.” Williams will leave the company and its board later this year after a transition period, and deputy cfo Sally Johnson will take over his role. Alida Becker will retire from the NYT Book Review, where she has worked for over 30 years as preview editor, on January 25, though she will continue her association as a contributor and columnist. Senior staff editor on the […]
LSC to Close Three More Plants
With Wall Street viewing printer LSC Communications as a zombie, trading at a market cap of about $7 million, the company announced that they are closing three more magazine and catalog printing plants. The closures are positioned as positive and decisive measures that “will strengthen the Company’s manufacturing platform by significantly reducing costs and improving utilization across LSC’s production facilities.” They are closing plants in Strasburg, VA (approximately 385 employees); Glasgow, KY (about 650 employees); and Mattoon, IL (about 750 employees) as “the company continues to focus on manufacturing footprint optimization to align with industry trends.” The closures are expected […]
People, Etc.
Rachel Fershleiser will join Counterpoint Press/Catapult/Soft Skull in early February as associate publisher, executive marketing director. She was senior director of marketing at Knopf. Also in February, Alyson Forbes will join the company as associate publisher, head of sales. She was vp, executive director of marketing strategy at Hachette Book Group. Emma Brodie will join Little, Brown’s Voracious on January 29 as executive editor, reporting to Michael Szczerban. She was previously senior editor for the Morrow Gift line at William Morrow. At Sourcebooks, Meg Gibbons has been promoted to senior editor, Simple Truths. At Doubleday, Nora Grubb and Cara Reilly have […]
People: Rubin to Leave Holt
Following the appointment of Amy Einhorn as president and publisher of Holt last September, the publisher’s chairman Steve Rubin will move on. He writes, “I have just celebrated my tenth anniversary at Henry Holt and, after considerable thought, have decided this is the perfect time to move on. My time here has been among the happiest in my career because not only has Holt been reborn and reenergized, but also working at Macmillan has been so satisfying. I spent 30 years at various incarnations of Bantam Doubleday Dell and Random House, and while I was for the most part very […]