At St. Martin’s Eileen Rothschild has been promoted to executive editor and Alexandra Sehulster to editor. Michael Leali has joined Sourcebooks as marketing specialist. He most recently was the children’s department manager at Anderson’s Bookshop in La Grange, Illinois. London-based Daniela Schlingmann Literary Scouting is now scouting for People’s Press in Copenhagen. Forthcoming Reese Witherspoon continues to build her efforts in publishing, unfortunately to the exclusive benefit of Audible and Amazon. Her production company Hello Sunshine announced their first three Audible Originals: Music-industry veteran Sophia Chang’s Baddest Bitch in the Room, judge Rosemarie Aquilina’s Magnificent Things, and comedian-activist Maysoon Zayid’s […]
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At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Tatyana Rosalia has been promoted to senior production associate for Margaret K. McElderry Books and Atheneum; and Morgan York to associate production editor for S&S Children’s and Paula Wiseman Books. Kate Prosswimmer has joined Margaret K. McElderry Books as editor. She was previously associate editor at Sourcebooks. Courtney Payne has been promoted to associate director of trade sales at Chronicle Books. Ian Delaney has been promoted to associate sales manager. Cengage has promoted Rebecca McNamara to the new position of chief integration officer, reporting directly to CEO Michael Hansen, leading all integration initiatives for the company’s […]
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Lauren Jackson has joined Saga Press as publicity and marketing manager. Dinah Dunn has partnered with Red Herring Design to form Indelible Editions, a book packager of illustrated nonfiction. She was most recently with Black Dog & Leventhal. John Hardy, senior director of distributor sales and retail marketing for Simon & Schuster, is retiring after 22 years with the company. Hardy joined the Pocket Books sales group in 1997 as national sales manager. SVP sales Gary Urda said, “What I will miss most about John is his boundless enthusiasm for our books, authors and company; his positive can do attitude […]
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Author and tabletop role-playing game (RPG) designer Daniel Fox joined Andrews McMeel Universal in the new position of executive creative director of games, reporting to president and publisher Kirsty Melville. He will create and acquire RPGs and related products, as well as work with AMU creators to help extend their brands into games. Fox says in the announcement, “There are a growing number of RPG designers looking for the right partner to bring their games to life in the broader RPG market. Gotham Ghostwriters has hired author and ghostwriter Jennifer Banash as director of its creative writing, and former Writer’s […]
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Independent Publishers Group announced a number of promotions: Alex Granato was promoted to editorial & subrights associate; Kristen Noon to senior A/R associate; Sam Ofman to senior publicist; Emily Parenti to content marketing coordinator; Stefani Szenda to marketing associate; Anna Torres to publisher development coordinator; Ethan Walles to A/P manager; Josh Williams to senior AQ editor; Clarissa Young to AQ Coordinator; and Jen Young to special sales rep. At their distribution center, Oskar Nogueda was promoted to print center supervisor and Mario Montenegro to replenishment coordinator. Gary Thompson has been promoted to director at Dead Reckoning. London’s Sunday Times had reported that poet […]
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Susan Graham has been promoted to agent at Einstein Literary Management, handling children’s and YA properties as well as adult sci-fi/fantasy. Jenny Lee will join Basic Books on May 6 as publicist. Most recently, she was a publicist at Crown. Michael Ploetz has joined DK as associate marketing manager, children’s. He was previously marketing & publicity Coordinator at Little Bee Books. Bookselling NYC’s Shakespeare & Co. will open a new location, its fourth, in Brookfield Place at 230 Vesey Street in lower Manhattan. The modest 2,300 square feet will still include an event space and a cafe.