Marian Wood, vice president and publisher of Marian Wood Books, will retire at the end of the year. She has been with Putnam since 1999. Ivan Held president of Putnam, Berkley, and Dutton wrote in a memo to staff, “While her list of writers is a tribute to her acumen as an editor, each of her books has received the skill and passion a good book deserves. As she has been known to say, ‘There is no reason to publish a book you don’t love. If you take that path, you do damage to the house, to the writer, and […]
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Tin House Magazine will shut down after its 20th anniversary issue is released in June 2019. Tin House Books and Tin House Workshop will continue, and new original fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will be published at tinhouse.com. Co-founder and editor of the magazine Rob Spillman will be leaving to move on to “new adventures.” Publisher and editor-in-chief Win McCormack said the decision was made “given the current costs of producing a print literary magazine” and thanked Spillman and founding editors Elissa Schappell and Holly MacArthur, as well as the rest of the staff “for their part in creating a vital, […]
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Marnie Cochran will move over to become executive editor at Harmony and Rodale, starting January 1. She has been at Ballantine for over 10 years. Kerri Kolen has joined Audible as executive editor on their originals team. Most recently she was executive editor at Putnam. Lucille Rettino has been promoted to the new position of vp, associate publisher, director of marketing and publicity for Tom Doherty Associates. In addition to her existing reports, Melissa Singer will report to Rettino in her scheduling/list management capacity while continuing to report to Patrick Nielsen Hayden for editorial work. Rachel Richardson is joining Watson, Little as their […]
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Former Weidenfeld & Nicolson publisher Kirsty Dunseath will become publishing director for Doubleday UK, starting March 25 and reporting to fiction publisher Sarah Adams. As of January 1, Nation Books will be renamed Bold Type Books, as the Nation Institute itself is changing its name to Type Media Center. Jon Krakauer has moved to Gersh for representation (while continuing to work with attorney Becky Hall). And correcting yesterday’s representation item on Rupi Kaur, she remains with Suzanne Brandreth at CookeMcDermid for literary representation; ICM will represent Kaur for film, television and theater. Forthcoming Robert Caro‘s next book is about himself rather than Lyndon Johnson, […]
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Sara Sargent moves to Random House Children’s as senior executive editor. (She was previously executive editor for Harper Children’s.) Also, Hanna Glidden has been promoted to associate director of pub ops business process and support. At Berkley, Kristine Swartz has been promoted to editor and Sarah Blumenstock has been promoted to associate editor. Julia Ringo has been promoted to associate editor at Farrar, Straus. Roisin Davis has joined Haymarket Books as director of foreign rights. She will also continue as associate agent at Roam Agency. In the UK, Jenny Lord has been promoted to nonfiction publisher for Weidenfeld & Nicolson. Alan Samson expands his role to […]
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Katie Ziga will move over from her position as svp, executive director, business operations at what was the Crown Publishing Group to serve as svp, strategy and finance at the Penguin Publishing Group, reporting to Allison Dobson, in January. VP, business management Tina McCormick and director, strategy and finance Liz Ichniowski will report to Ziga. She has worked for Random House since 1998. Fareeda Bullert has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Berkley. At Sourcebooks, Mallory Hyde has joined as marketing specialist for children’s books. Jaclyn Puccini has joined in the newly created role of social media specialist for Sourcebooks Fire. Liz […]