Allison Carroll has joined Audible Originals as executive editor for romance. She was previously editor at Harlequin. Molly Fletcher has been promoted to digital marketing specialist at Sourcebooks. Ruth Reichl remembers her editor Susan Kamil in the NYT, and Michelle Willens remembers her friend James Atlas in the LAT. Bookselling San Francisco’s Green Apple Books is buying Browser Books on Fillmore Street as of October 1. The store will keep its name and its staff.
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Cindy Uh has joined CAA as agent. Previously, she worked at Thompson Literary Agency. CEO of BookPeople in Austin, TX Elizabeth Jordan will step down from that position, to serve as general manager of author Jenny Lawson’s forthcoming store in San Antonio, Nowhere Bookshop. Associate publisher, Penguin Children’s Jocelyn Schmidt has been promoted to executive vice president. Follett has a formal press release on the expanded responsibilities for evp and overall global general manager Amandeep (Aman) Kochar, who they said in June would take over the Baker & Taylor public library business when David Cully retired at the end of […]
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American Booksellers Association ceo Oren Teicher, who is retiring at the end of the year, will be honored with the National Book Foundation’s Literarian Award for Outstanding Service to the American Literary Community. Author and bookseller Ann Patchett will present the award at the National Book Awards ceremony on November 20. Marleen Reimer has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as subsidiary rights manager for general interest books. She was formerly senior scout at Maria B. Campbell Associates. Laura Zats and Erik Hane have launched Headwater Literary Management, a new agency based in Minneapolis. Both were previously at Red Sofa Literary. At […]
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Judith Haut has been promoted to evp, deputy publisher at Random House Children’s Books. Newly reporting to her is Tom Russell, vp and publisher, The Princeton Review and Sylvan. RHCB president and publisher Barbara Marcus said, “Throughout her 25-year career with RHCB, Judith has played a critical role in building and growing the division. Her passion for placing diverse and quality content into the hands of young readers and her strategic focus and understanding of the children’s industry have been key to her and our success. Judith will continue to work with me and our senior team to set long-term […]
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Hisae Matsuda has been promoted to publisher at Parallax Press. Jenny Hewson will join Lutyens & Rubinstein as associate agent starting September 23. She was with Rogers, Coleridge and White. Chrysothemis Armefti has been promoted to senior agent at 2 Seas Agency. Springer Nature Group has promoted chief commercial officer Frank Vrancken Peeters to ceo, as Daniel Ropers leaves the company, “per his agreement with the Board, having ensured a smooth transition with his Springer Nature colleague.” Peeters joined the company two years ago. Bookselling Toronto’s Ben McNally Books in Toronto will vacate its space “at some point during 2020” […]
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Maggie Lehrman has been promoted to editorial director, fiction for Abrams Children’s. At Knopf, Julianne Clancy has been promoted to assistant director of marketing. Emily Murphy moves up to marketing manager. Joanna Cárdenas has been promoted to senior editor at Kokila. Marisol Salaman has been promoted to publicist at Portfolio/Sentinel. Carla Bruce-Eddings has joined Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull as senior publicist. Cassie Mannes Murray has been promoted to assistant agent at Howland Literary. Former Melbourne University Publishing chief executive Louise Adler has joined Hachette Australia as publisher at large, acquiring books on current affairs and politics. Scouting Sanford J. Greenburger Associates is […]