Dan Gerstle will move to Liveright as senior editor on November 12. He has been an acquiring editor for Basic Books since 2013. Sarah Reidy will join Tom Doherty Associates as executive director of publicity on November 19. She has been associate director of publicity at Simon & Schuster. Laura Ferguson has joined Open Road as svp of business development, reporting to ceo Paul Slavin, overseeing their Open Road Ignition business providing marketing services for partner publishers. Previously Ferguson was managing new business development at Time, Inc. In promotions at Simon & Schuster Children’s: Julia McCarthy moved up to assistant editor for Atheneum; Amanda […]
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F+W Media has established a new standalone books group with Heidi Sachner joining as head of books (in September, according to her LinkedIn page). Most recently she had been vp, Two Rivers Distribution at the Ingram Content Group. Pam Wissman has been promoted to executive director, heading up the editorial and design teams, and Greg Nock has been promoted to production director. Moving As Penguin prepares to vacate their buildings downtown (with Penguin employees moving into the expanded PRH headquarters at 1745 Broadway), DK announced a new lease for their unit at 1450 Broadway, near Bryant Park, which they will […]
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Edite Kroll will transfer her active children’s book clients to Victoria Wells Arms at Wells Arms Literary (working in association with Hannigan Salky Getzler), effective January 1. Kroll will continue to work with her children’s backlist and adult trade clients. Gail Brussel has been promoted to assistant publicity director at the Penguin Press. The just-launched “web-based” “cyber publisher” Blake Freeman Johnson has already changed its name — to Soho Friday Media. Former longtime children’s book publishing executive Kaylee N. Davis, 63, died on Tuesday. Most recently she was licensing manager for North America and Latin America at Parragon Publishing, following a series […]
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Alex Levenberg has been promoted to global rights director at Amazon Publishing. Quotable The WSJ looks at a number of successful independent publishers and some of their high-impact books. Founder of the UK’s Fitzcarraldo Editions Jacques Testard — who bought Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time before she won the Nobel, and also published Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk’s Booker International Prize-winning Flights — says,”Publishing is extremely tough financially. It’s basically like digging a hole in the ground and chucking money in.” But, “If I publish your debut and we sell 600 copies, I’ll still do the next one, and the one after that. […]
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At Workman, Laura Marciniak has been promoted to digital production associate for the Workman. Erin Kibby has been promoted to marketing coordinator. Margaret Kelly has joined Sourcebooks as customer service manager. Bonnier Books UK group commercial director Julian Shaw is leaving to pursue other opportunities. He has been with the company since 2014. Carlo Carabba will join Harper Italia as executive editor, Italian fiction starting November 19 and reporting to editorial director Sabrina Annoni. He was most recently editor-in-chief of the Italian fiction department at Mondadori. Pearson has hired Deirdre Latour as chief corporate affairs officer, reporting to ceo John Fallon, starting January 1. She […]
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Claudia Gabel has been promoted to editorial director at Harper Children’s. Amy Stapp is joining Wolfson Literary Agency as of November 1. She was previously an editor with Macmillan/Tor. Jason Kirk has been promoted to executive editor at Amazon’s 47North and Skyscape imprints. Maria Mann has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicity associate. She was previously at Page Street publishing. At Chronicle Books, Julia Marvel has joined as designer, children’s. Previously she was associate designer at Abrams Books. Patrick Rafanan has joined as marketing photographer and visual content coordinator. Previously he was an ecommerce photographer at Randa Accessories. Wendy Thorpe […]