At Dutton, Stephanie Kelly has been promoted to editor and Katie Zaborsky moves up to associate editor. Jennifer Wattley has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as associate digital & social marketing manager. She was most recently production associate at St. Martin’s Press. Jordan Hamessley has joined New Leaf Literary & Media as literary agent, focusing on children’s picture books, middle grade, young adult, and adult genre fiction. Mark Glesne has joined Thomas Nelson as marketing director. Previously, he was director of marketing and digital commerce at TOL. Harassment Files PBS suspended talk show host Tavis Smiley after allegations came out that Smiley “had engaged in […]
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Harassment Files: Women Lead Paris Review Search, Two Top Executives Leave Audible
Two top Audible executives, chief content officer Andrew Gaies and chief revenue officer Will Lopes, resigned from the company, first reported by Hollywood Reporter on December 5. Announced in an email to staff from ceo Don Katz, no reason was provided for the resignations, which are being linked by inference to an ongoing internal investigation into workplace harassment that was announced before Thanksgiving. There is no concrete or on-the-record information to go on, with a spokesperson saying, “Because Audible doesn’t disclose the details of personnel matters, we can’t provide additional information on their departures.” Katz did tell employees in a […]
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Harper Children’s has created an new internal editorial team focusing on teen and middle grade fiction. Erica Sussman is editorial director of the team, joined by Kristen Pettit, Emilia Rhodes, Alice Jerman, Elizabeth Lynch and Stephanie Stein. Rachel Zugschwert will join Lerner Publishing Group as group marketing director starting January 1. She was most recently director of marketing for Sparkhouse Family. Jill Braithwaite moves over from group marketing director to the role of publishing director, trade. Jenny Krueger has been promoted to publishing director, school & library. Mark Budde has been promoted to executive vice president, chief operations officer. Jaymie Stewart Wolfe will join […]
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At Chronicle Books, Tessa Ingersoll has been promoted to associate director of international sales. Lynda Zuber Sassi been appointed to director of international and subsidiary rights sales. Linda Iarrera is joining McGill-Queen’s University Press as sales manager. Previously she was manager of institutional sales for US academic library accounts at Wiley. Mark Hillesheim left his position recently as national account manager for Legato. He was the final dedicated Legato employee, and with his departure that distribution unit is formally finished. Following Ingram’s acquisition of the Perseus distribution companies in 2016, Legato and its clients have been fully integrated into PGW. Legato was founded as […]
Szalai to Become Nonfiction Book Critic at NYT
New York Times Book Review editor Jennifer Ildiko Szalai will move over to serve as nonfiction book critic starting in January, taking over as Jennifer Senior moves back to long-form journalism for the paper. As books editor Pamela Paul writes, “Sometimes, you search for the ideal candidate for a position far and wide, and find that the best one is sitting right across from you.” She adds, “Jennifer is one of the most stylish, incisive, original writers on books, politics and culture today. A Canadian native who grew up between cultures – her father was Hungarian and her mother is […]
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Publisher of the Penguin Random House Audio Group Amanda D’Acierno has been promoted to executive vice president. At Harper One, Jenn Jensen has been promoted to associate director of marketing. Bonnier will expand their North American publishing operations, adding the Bonnier Zaffre imprint (which publishes authors including Wilbur Smith and Lynda La Plante). Valentina Rice has been hired as vp, sales, marketing & publicity for Bonnier Zaffre in the US, reporting to ceo Mark Smith. Rice spent 15 years at Penguin, most recently as vp, international sales & marketing, before launching her own e-commerce site helping small-batch artisanal food producers get […]