At Orbit, Brit Hvide has been promoted to senior editor and Nivia Evans has been promoted to associate editor. At Simon & Schuster, Julianna Haubner has been promoted to associate editor. Michelle Campbell joins Little, Brown Children’s as senior manager of school and library marketing. She was most recently manager of library and educational marketing for Scholastic. Deborah Druba has joined Anna Jarota Literary Agency as an agent. She was most recently editor of foreign literature at Editions Kero and before that editorial director at Fleuve Editions. Rebecca Weston, formerly associate editor at Random House Children’s, is launching an independent editorial services business, […]
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Sanders and Evashevski Leave UTA; Amicucci’s Barnes & Noble Settlement
UTA book department co-heads and partners Howie Sanders and Kassie Evashevski are leaving the agency and will join Anonymous Content as producer/managers, where they will establish a dedicated literary rights division. UTA co-president David Kramer says, “It goes without saying that we will miss Howie and Kassie as colleague. But more than anything, as friends we wish them all the success in the world as they enter this new chapter of their careers and transition to producer and manager roles.” He adds, “We look forward to collaborating with them and our friends at Anonymous Content for many years to come.” […]
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Molly O’Neill has joined Root Literary as agent, still based in New York. She was most recently an agent at Waxman Leavell Agency. Margo Beth Fleming has joined Brockman, Inc. as a literary agent. She was senior editor at Stanford University Press, where she worked for the last 11 years. Sari Kamin has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as senior publicity manager (she was a freelance food journalist), and Breanne Sommer has joined as publicity manager (she was at Handcrafted PR, Artisan and Regan Arts). Both will handle handle culinary and lifestyle books. At NetGalley, Lindsey Lochner has been promoted to […]
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Lauren Adams has been promoted to senior marketing manager of licensed and proprietary brands marketing for Random House Children’s. Kate Hutchison joins BookShout as director of business development and publisher relations. Most recently she worked for the startups Litsy and Bookstr. LitHub’s latest “interview with a gatekeeper” features Colin Dickerman. On why being an editor is the best job: “Because I feel like it engages so many different ways of thinking. You’re reading something critically, you’re negotiating a contract, there’s a social aspect to it…you’re going out and meeting people. And there is the very intense relationship with an author, which […]
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Following the closing of the imprint’s Nashville office earlier this year, Howard Books senior editor Phyllis Boultinghouse will retire on September 29. She has been with the company since 1985. Beth Adams has been promoted to executive editor. Former editor-in-chief Becky Nesbitt will return to Howard Books as editor-at-large, based in Nashville and reporting to Adams. Jocelyn Bailey has joined Harper Christian as an acquisitions editor, acquiring fiction for the Thomas Nelson and Zondervan imprints. Lindsey Hall will join Tor as senior editor. Previously, she was editor for Orbit. At HMH, Hannah Harlow has been promoted to executive director of marketing. Michael Dudding has […]
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At Abrams Children’s, Maggie Lehrman has been promoted to executive editor and Traci Todd moves up to editorial director. Pamela Bobowicz will join on October 2 as executive editor of licensed publishing, reporting to Todd. Previously she was senior editor for Harper Children’s. At Massie & McQuilkin, Lexi Wangler has been promoted to junior agent & foreign rights associate. Laura Brown has been promoted to editor at Harper. Veronica Wasserman has joined HMH Children’s as executive director of marketing and brand strategy. Previously she was brand director of Wimpy Kid marketing at Abrams. Lisa DiSarro has been promoted to executive director of marketing. Connie Le joins Random House Children’s as brand […]