Ann Marie Wong has joined Holt Children’s as editorial director. She was previously senior editorial director at Scholastic Book Clubs. Kendall Storey has been promoted to full-time editor at Catapult and Soft Skull Press, moving over from managing foreign rights and contracts for Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press. 2 Seas Agency will represent foreign rights sales for the publisher going forward. Elizabeth Worthy has been promoted to director, event management at Simon & Schuster. At Random House Children’s, Caite Arocho has joined as marketing coordinator. She was previously marketing and design lead at Outside the Lense. Natali Cavanagh has also […]
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Zola Mashariki has joined Audible as head of Audible Studios, overseeing the creation of original content, based in Los Angles and reporting to Rachel Ghiazza. Mashariki was most recently chief content officer for One Community (fka Good Films). Danny Vazquez has been promoted to editor at Astra House. Gracie Elliott has been promoted to associate editor, children’s at Workman. Shirley Ortiz has been promoted to executive director of customer service and fulfillment across all Workman Publishing imprints. At Amazon Publishing, Dennelle Catlett has been promoted to senior PR manager. Ashley Vanicek and Brittany Russell have each been promoted to publicity lead. […]
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Pronoy Sarkar has joined Little, Brown as senior editor, reporting to Judith Clain. Previously, he was an editor at St. Martin’s. Nicole Chung has been promoted to editorial director, digital at Catapult, overseeing Catapult magazine and Catapult’s new digital publication for writers, Don’t Write Alone. Stella Cabot Wilson has been promoted to associate editor of Catapult Magazine and Don’t Write Alone, in addition to her role as Catapult’s writing programs coordinator. Tarah Theoret has been promoted to senior director, community experience at NetGalley. Obituaries South African book publisher Jonathan Ball, 69, died on April 3 of cancer. Longtime literary agent […]
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Andrew Rein will join Zando as head of sales & retail content development on April 13. He has been at Penguin Random House for the past 13 years, most recently as vp, director of mass merch national accounts. Emily Hillebrand has been promoted to assistant editor at Diversion Books, acquiring in the categories of self-development, pop culture, current events, science, and diversity, equity, and inclusion. Elizabeth Lazowski has been promoted to assistant editor, children’s at Chronicle Books. Jenny Choy has been promoted to director, school and library marketing at Abrams Children’s. At Penguin Random House Canada, Rachel Guglielmelli is joining the production […]
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Picks GMA Book Club chose Of Women and Salt by Gabriela Garcia for April (as noted yesterday, a recent Buzz Books selection that was also featured in our virtual BB Editors Panel). The Costco Pennie’s Pick for the month is Remember by Lisa Genova. Events The London Book Fair has backpedalled on their promise again. In an “update statement,” LBF director Andy Ventris says, “We promised to update the trade about plans for the 2021 Fair by the end of March. Given the continuing uncertainty around international travel, we are currently planning for all scenarios and will update with a final […]
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Aliya King Neil will join Gallery Books as a senior editor on April 5. She was previously editor-at-large at Medium. At Hachette Book Group, Megan Fitzpatrick has been promoted to executive director of marketing & publicity for Hachette Audio; Barbara Slavin to senior director of digital sales and business development; and Mary Urban to associate director of digital sales. Terri Lancaster has been promoted to senior production coordinator, reprints at Chronicle Books. Rick Garcia has joined Harper Collins as director of digital advertising for the general books group. He was previously head of programmatic advertising at Penguin Random House. Connor […]