Kim Anderson will re-join Chronicle Books as vice president of sales & marketing, overseeing the marketing, domestic sales, international sales, and subsidiary rights teams. Previously, she worked in the Chronicle Books sales department from 2003 to 2013, and has spent the past five years as a sales and marketing consultant for such companies as Insight Editions, Mrs. Grossman’s, becker&mayer, and Galison. Steve Marshall joined Ingram Content Group as vp, IT services. Prior to Ingram, Steve was the vice president of infrastructure at C&S Wholesale Grocers in Keene, NH. Claire McGinnis has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Riverhead. At Thames & […]
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Eamon Dolan will join Simon & Schuster Publishing Group as vice president and executive editor starting October 1. Dolan was most recently with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he ran his own imprint, Eamon Dolan Books, which was shut down in July. Simon & Schuster president and publisher Jonathan Karp says, “Eamon will continue to do what he has done so brilliantly for years: Identify, edit, and publish some of the best writers and thinkers in the culture – authors whose works are relevant to understanding our times and how they are changing, and capable of being just as meaningful in the […]
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At Putnam, Ashley Hewlett is promoted to senior publicity manager and Elena Hershey to publicity manager. Hannah Finne has been promoted to the newly created position of data manager at Holiday House, overseeing data, metadata, and digital assets.
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Longtime New York Magazine contributing editor Boris Kachka has been named books editor as parent company New York Media aims to triple book coverage across the magazine and their various blogs. Kachka says, “We haven’t really had someone overseeing books and it fell between the cracks too often. Books aren’t like a lot of other media; there’s the opportunity to seed them through lots of different sections.” NY Magazine editor-in-chief Adam Moss adds: “Books have for years been pretty big areas of interest in our universe and on the site, according to all the metrics we have. We thought this was […]
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Russell Busse has joined Abrams Children’s as senior editor, entertainment and licensed publishing. He was previously with Little, Brown Children’s. Masha Gunic has joined Azantian Literary Agency as junior literary agent. She was previously editorial assistant at Abrams. The Frankfurt Book Fair named their new group of 16 Fellows (including Olivia Taylor Smith at Unnamed Press in the US). Acquisitions Hachette Book Group has closed their deal to acquire Christian publisher Worthy Publishing Group. Worthy’s founding publisher and CEO Byron Williamson becomes vp, publishing development for Hachette Nashville, joining HBG’s senior management group. Worthy sales and distribution will move to HBG […]
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Harper Christian svp and group publisher David Moberg will retire at the end of the company’s fiscal year, in June 2019. SVP and publisher of Nelson Books Brian Hampton will be promoted to fill the role. Hampton will oversee all book publishing operations for both Thomas Nelson and Zondervan and the associated imprints effective immediately (except for Zondervan’s Church, Academic, Reference and Reflective publishing, and Bible publishing), reporting to president and ceo Mark Schoenwald. Moberg will “hold a leadership role within Harper Christian until his date of retirement, ensuring a seamless transition of responsibilities.” Hampton has been with the company for 27 years. […]