At the Penguin Random House US Finance Group, Justine LeCates has been appointed vice president, director of US finance. In the newly created position, she’ll be responsible for overseeing the US division’s financial planning & reporting, analysis and financial Systems. Yvonne Ricciuti has been promoted to senior director of financial systems. In the Random House Publishing Group publicity department, Jennifer Garza has been promoted to director of publicity, Ballantine Bantam Dell; Greg Kubie becomes associate director of publicity; and Dhara Parikh moves up to senior publicist. Emily Ritter has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as digital & social marketing manager. She was most recently marketing manager at […]
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Another Reshuffling: Bonnier’s UK Publishing Will be Just Bonnier Books UK, Under Existing CEO Mann
Five months after the dismissal of Bonnier Publishing group ceo Richard Johnson, the company has decided to eliminate his position entirely. The UK-based book publishing group is renaming and rebranding the troubled division Bonnier Books UK. Perminder Mann, who was already ceo of the operating units, continues as ceo with the group now reporting straight to Bonnier Books in Sweden. Parent company Bonnier cfo Jim Zetterlund, who had been interim ceo after Johnson’s departure, will serve as chairman of Bonnier Books UK. Previously the Bonnier Publishing group had included units in the US and Australia. Now Bonnier Publishing USA will report to […]
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Mitchell Ivers is leaving Simon & Schuster on August 31 after more than 21 years at the company, most recently as vp, editorial director of Threshold Editions (though the imprint is not mentioned in the announcement), to write a book “inspired by his recent trip to Israel and Palestine” and to explore publishing opportunities. Ivers joined Simon & Schuster in 1997. In a note to staff, Jonathan Karp remarked on Ivers’ years of “major bestsellers and consummate professionalism” and his “his open-mindedness and courageous support of writers of all voices.” Including, though also not mentioned, the ill-fated Milo Yiannopoulos project. That […]
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Kristin Fassler is joining Atria Publishing Group in the newly created position of vice president, director of integrated marketing on August 1. She was most recently vice president, director of marketing at Random House, overseeing the Ballantine Bantam Dell imprint. Dana Trocker, director of marketing, will move to Atria from the Simon & Schuster trade imprint, reporting to Fassler. Also reporting to Fassler will be Atria’s two deputy directors of publicity, David Brown and Lisa Sciambra; associate director of publicity Yona Deshommes; and assistant director of publicity Ariele Fredman. Paul Olsewski, vice president, director of publicity, will be leaving Atria, and the role […]
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Kendall Storey has joined Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull as associate editor and publishing manager. Previously she was associate editor & publicist at Archipelago Books and co-director of Archipelago’s children’s imprint Elsewhere Editions. At Princeton University Press, Michelle Komie has been promoted to publisher, art and architecture; Hannah Paul has been promoted to associate editor for economics and political science; and Lauren Bucca, Thalia Leaf, Pamela Weidman, and Kristin Zodrow have each been promoted to editorial associate. Pulitzer Prize-winning Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Jonathan Gold, 57, died of pancreatic cancer. He had a book under contract with Ecco, originally signed in 2016 for Anthony Bourdain Books, which he called “a culinary coming […]
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At Bonnier Publishing USA, Brett Duquette, formerly senior editor at Sterling Publishing, has joined Little Bee Books and Yellow Jacket; Rachel Gluckstern, formerly production editor at Scholastic, has joined BuzzPop as editor; Lauren Carr, formerly publicity coordinator at Scholastic, has joined the children’s group as publicist. Stephani Stilwell has been promoted to designer and Michael Ploetz has been promoted to coordinator, marketing and publicity. Also having their jobs eliminated at Picador as a result of the “realignment” we reported on Thursday are creative director Henry Yee (who worked there for 26 years) and senior designer LeeAnn Falciani, who leave in August, and associate editor Pronoy Sarkar, whose […]