Seniqua Koger has joined Kensington Publishing as special markets director. Koger was most recently special markets director, retail at Hachette Book Group. Derek Warker has joined The New Press as Publicity Manager. He was previously publicist at Columbia University Press. Alicia Brooks has joined JVNLA as a literary agent. She was previously editor at Picador and St. Martin’s Press. Baker & Taylor Publisher Services will represent Tachyon Publications for sales and fulfillment starting January 1. Awards Lucy Ellmann‘s Ducks, Newburyport won the UK’s Goldsmiths Prize for fiction that “breaks the mold.”
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Marianne Velmans, publishing director at Doubleday UK, will retire in April, after 31 years with the imprint. She will be succeeded by Kirsty Dunseath who joined as publishing director in March. Transworld manager director Larry Finlay told The Bookseller, “Not only is Marianne a wonderful editor and publisher but she is also a lovely, warm, supportive person. It has been a huge pleasure to work with her for so long. She is smart, dedicated, and a fabulous champion both of her authors and her colleagues. So many have benefitted from her wisdom and care over the years. We will all […]
People, Etc.: Atsma Moves to Ecco
Helen Atsma will join Ecco as vp, editorial director on December 2, reporting to Daniel Halpern and filling the position vacated recently by Megan Lynch. She has been editorial director, fiction at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kelly O’Connor Lonesome is joining Tom Doherty Associates as senior editor for Nightfire. She was previously at Orbit, though for the last two years she has been a Bay Area bookseller and at the University of California. Ashley Gilliam has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Scribner. Amy Habayeb has been promoted to associate director, subsidiary rights at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Emily Osborn has […]
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Heather Kelly has joined Abrams Children’s as senior designer. Previously she was senior designer at Sterling Children’s. At HG Literary, Soumeya Bendimerad Roberts was promoted to vp, foreign rights, and Rhea Lyons was named director, film/TV rights. Controversial Nobel prize laureate Peter Handke‘s originating publisher Suhrkamp prepared a lengthy document, “intended mainly for the benefit of foreign publishers of Handke’s work who had found themselves, like Suhrkamp, in an uncomfortable position as a result of Handke’s record of downplaying Serb atrocities against Muslims in the Bosnia war.” But “Suhrkamp’s rambling defense has not received positive reviews from” the German and Austrian […]
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Tammy Cabot has been promoted to vp & director, specialty retail sales at Penguin Random House, to lead a newly unified cross-company specialty retail effort, serving non-book retailers of all sizes and interests. Tiffany Liao has been promoted to senior editor at Holt Children’s. Carrie Hannigan and Josh Getzler have renamed their agency Hannigan Getzler Literary, following the departure in September of co-founding partner Jesseca Salky. At least 10 people were laid off at Bustle, including senior books editor Cristina Arreola. Washington Post book critic and associate editor Carlos Lozada was elected to the Pulitzer Prize board (as was New Yorker editor […]
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Damon Reiss moves over to become vp and publisher for W Publishing, reporting to Don Jacobson. He has been senior director for Harper Christian’s custom and backlist program as well as Christian bookstore key accounts and distributor channels. Bookseller PK Sindwani joined the American Booksellers Association this week as chief financial officer. He was the owner of Towne Book Center & Cafe in Collegeville, PA for 29 years. Nica Carrillo is leaving her position as marketing and sales manager of Coffee House Press on November 15. She will join Epsilon Agency as a client account executive. Marit Swanson, succeeds her […]