At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Devin MacDonald has joined as marketing manager. She was most recently brand manager for Harry Potter, Captain Underpants, and Dog Man at Scholastic. Audrey Gibbons has been promoted to publicity manager; Jill Hacking moves up to marketing operations and events associate; Amy Hendricks becomes marketing associate; Samantha Benson has been promoted to associate publicist; and Emily Hutton becomes associate director of sales. Kjersti Egerdahl has been promoted to senior editor at Amazon Original Stories. Patrick Crotty joins Random House Graphic as designer. He was previously publisher and co-founder of Peow. Morgan Vogt has joined Sourcebooks as marketing associate. Tina Wilson has been promoted […]
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Alessandra Bastagli has joined Dey Street Books as executive editor. She was previously editorial director of Nation Books. Warren Bass will leave Penguin Press after almost a year to return to the Wall Street Journal’s weekend Review section, “with a nicely tailored portfolio of commissioning and editing big essays that’ll include lots of ongoing interface with the publishing world.” At Atria, Ariele Fredman has been promoted to associate director of publicity, and Alison Hinchcliffe moved up to associate publicist. Katie Zanecchia, formerly a literary agent at Ross Yoon Agency, has joined PEN America as national outreach program director. Pittsburgh former bookseller Mary Alice Gorman, […]
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Zachary Knoll has been promoted to associate editor at Simon & Schuster. Jeff Li joins Serial Box as chief operating officer. Most recently he led the ventures team at NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Networks. Awards The New Academy prize, formed to fill the gap left by the Swedish Academy’s decision to not award a Nobel for literature this year, was awarded to Guadeloupean novelist Maryse Condé, who writes in French. A number of US publishers have her works in print. SEGU, published by Penguin, is her best known novel, and VICTOIRE: My Mother’s Mother, published by Simon & Schuster, is her most […]
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At Post Hill Press, Heather King has joined as managing editor and Amy White as accounting and contracts administrator. Holly Pisarchuk has been promoted to director of finance. April Osborn has joined Mira as editor, acquiring crime/suspense and book club fiction. Previously, she was a senior associate editor at St. Martin’s. Suzie Sisoler has been expanded her role at Penguin Random House, with the new title of vice president, director, consumer engagement, . Publisher and ceo and publisher of Manual Moderno in Mexico Hugo Setzer was named the new president of the International Publishers Association, and svp at Elsevier Michiel Kolman, PhD was named […]
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At Macmillan, Jennifer Edwards was promoted to vp, children’s sales reporting to Jenn Gonzalez. At Putnam, Danielle Dieterich has been promoted to associate editor. Longtime CAA book-to-film agent Sally Willcox, has joined Paradigm, overseeing media rights, based in Beverly Hills. Mostly recently, Willcox worked at at Tobey Maguire’s Material overseeing acquisition and development. She was at CAA for 27 years before leaving in 2014. Harper UK is launching the nonfiction Mudlark imprint, promising “every book will showcase an interesting, original writer with a distinctive voice.” Jack Fogg leads the boutique line. Onetime Fourth Estate publisher Christopher Potter, who left in 2005, returns to […]
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Karen Yates has been promoted to associate literary agent at Yates & Yates. Helen Richard has been promoted to associate editor at Putnam. At Harper Collins, Ashley Mihlebach has been promoted to the newly-created position of director, sales for general books, national accounts, Amazon. Yale University Press celebrates co-winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics William Nordhaus; they publish his books The Climate Casino: Risk, Uncertainty, and Economics for a Warming World and A Question of Balance. Briefs Barnes & Noble‘s monthly Book Buzz newsletter does not name a “book of the month” selection for October, but the chain does point […]