Grace Ross has joined Regal Hoffmann & Associates as agency assistant and junior agent. She was at the Denise Shannon Literary Agency. Claire McLaughlin has joined Little Bird as assistant publicist. Nobel Prize week starts October 3 and runs through October 10. The prize for literature is traditionally announced on Thursday, which makes October 6 the expected date for the award. The Swedish Academy will officially confirm that on October 3. The National Book Awards will release their finalists on October 13, the same day that the Booker winner is selected in the UK — but first the NBF will […]
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At Crown Business, Talia Krohn has been promoted to executive editor, while Mary Choteborsky Reynics moves up to executive editor for that imprint as well as for Crown Forum and Convergent. Derek Reed has been promoted to editor for all three imprints. Also, after saying in 2014 the company would discontinue publishing new books under the Catholic-focused imprint Image, the company “recently decided to continue to selectively publish frontlist titles by key authors on the Image roster.” Senior editor for Convergent and Harmony Books Gary Jansen is named to the new position of director, Image, maintaining his existing editorial duties while also “strategizing and executing the marketing and […]
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Cara Bedick joins Touchstone as senior editor beginning Monday. Previously she was a senior editor at William Morrow. Anna Knutson Geller has left The Book Group to found Write View, a literary agency with an emphasis on spirituality, practical nonfiction, and inspirational memoir. Amy Vreeland has joined Abrams as senior managing editor, children’s division. Previously she was managing editor at Farrar, Straus Children’s. Bill Massey will leave his position as deputy publishing director for fiction at Orion in the UK to work as a freelance editor, starting November 1. Massey will be continue to work with Michael Connelly and Linwood Barclay in his new role, the Bookseller […]
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Vp, business development at Diversion Books Mary Cummings will leave the company next month. Diversion has hired Caroline Acebo as acquisition editor, EverAfter Romance. Previously she was editor at Grand Central’s Forever imprint. In addition, Christine Saunders has joined as publicist. Most recently she headed her own company, Christine Saunders Public Relations. The merged companies David C Cook Distribution Canada and Augsburg Fortress Canada will go forward under a new name, Parasource Marketing and Distribution Ltd. Cancelled James Patterson has withdrawn the ill-advised BookShots novel The Murder of Stephen King that was announced a week ago for November publication. Patterson said in […]
Zecher Resigns As Houghton Mifflin Harcourt CEO
Five years after joining the company and leading it through its final restructuring and an IPO, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ceo Linda Zecher has resigned — apparently dismissed by a restless board. Current board member L. Gordon Crovitz will serve as interim ceo while a search is conducted for a new ceo. Board chair Lawrence K. Fish said in a statement, “The Board decided this was a good time to begin a search for the next CEO, who will be charged with combining strengths across the company to accelerate growth in the core business as well as in adjacent markets, while continuing […]
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At Crown Children’s, Emily Easton has been promoted to vp, publisher. Marissa DeCuir has been promoted to president and partner at JKS Communications. Kurt Hettler has joined Ingram Academic Services as director of academic services. Previously he spent the past 25 years at Oxford University Press, most recently as director, publisher services. In addition, Peter Antone has joined Ingram as director of marketing, publisher services. Most recently he served as director of consumer marketing and sales at The Tennessean and Gannett-USA Today Network. Former Plume editorial director Rachel Bressler is now director of client relations for Ingram’s Perseus Distribution, reporting to […]