Jennifer Schuster has left Crown Archetype, where she was an executive editor, to launch Jen Schuster Editorial Services, providing developmental editing, ghostwriting, proposal development, and consulting services. In an update to our report on Folio Literary Management acquiring Harold Ober Associates, Phyllis Westberg and Craig Tenney are retiring, and other Ober personnel will join Folio. Bookselling Laurel Book Store in Oakland closed on Friday, after a relocation downtown four years ago caused financial troubles. Last July, owner Luan Stauss asked customers to help raise $30,000 she needed to catch up in rent. She wrote in a final newsletter to customers, […]
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Founder of Blue Rider Press (and longtime publisher at Simon & Schuster before that) David Rosenthal has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editor at large. Svp and publisher Bruce Nichols said, “I have known and admired David for many years, and I am thrilled that he will bring his creativity, keen editorial eye, and astonishing list of contacts to HMH.” Simon & Schuster has restructured its sales division, including the following promotions and hires: Paula Amendolara has been promoted to vp, director of national accounts, adding responsibility for sales to mass market retailers and airports, as well as the key distributors […]
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Rebecca Smart will join DK in January in the new role role of managing director, publishing, overseeing design, UK marketing and PR, publishing operations and Alpha Books in Indianapolis. She has been managing director at Ebury for the past 4 years. DK ceo Ian Hudson said in the announcement, “Rebecca’s appointment is an important step for the company…. With her mix of strategic leadership and commercial experience, combined with her vision, creativity and passion, she will lead the evolution of our global publishing, and seek out new digital and business development opportunities.” Claire Payne joins Sourcebooks as director of sales, […]
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Hasan Altaf joins the Paris Review as managing editor next Tuesday. Most recently, he was the managing editor at Harper’s Magazine. Fiction writer, poet, and musician Christian Keifer takes the new role of West Coast editor. Additionally, an expanded roster of advisory editors incorporates former poetry editor Robyn Creswell, plus Saskia Hamilton and Christopher Merrill. At Milkweed Editions, Joanna R. Demkiewicz has been promoted to marketing director. Jordan Bascom moves up to publicist. Former John Murray publishing director Eleanor Birne joins David Godwin Associates as an agent on September 3. The MacDowell Colony announced 87 recipients of fall-winter fellowships, including […]
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Lily Yengle has joined Bloomsbury Children’s as marketing manager. She was previously publicist at Penguin Children’s. Maria Mann has joined Page Street Publishing as publicity and marketing associate. Author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be the keynote speaker at the opening press conference of the Frankfurt Book Fair, on October 9. At the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, director of cultural programs Louise Steinman is leaving the organization, as is associate director Maureen Moore. Steinman founded and the ALOUD reading series at the downtown Central Library for 25 years. Spokesperson Leah Price told the LAT, “We’re in the process of re-envisioning the ALOUD series […]
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Zachary Schisgal has joined Wiley as senior acquisitions editor. Florian Illies will become publisher of Rowohlt in Germany as of January 1, 2019, succeeding Barbara Laugwitz. Illies is the author of Generation Golf and 1913, and is currently the managing director of the auction house Grisebach. Picks The September Pennie’s Pick at Costco is The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle, which is excerpted in our Buzz Books 2018 Fall/Winter sampler and available for download now. And the month’s PBS NewsHour-New York Times Now Read This pick is Robert Kaplan’s Earning the Rockies. Awards The Academy of American Poets named Sonia Sanchez as […]