Luke Dempsey will join Harper as executive editor on June 20. Most recently he was executive editor at HarperOne. Simon & Schuster Children’s has announced a number of recent promotions. Deane Norton has been promoted to director of subsidiary rights; Chrissy Noh moves up to marketing director for S&S Young Readers, Atheneum, Margaret. K. McElderry, Paula Wiseman, Beach Lane and Saga Press. Faye Bi has been promoted to senior publicist, while Isa Caban moves up to marketing coordinator. At Harper Christian, Jerri Helms has been promoted to senior director, digital marketing strategy. In the UK, Rachel Mills is leaving PFD (for […]
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Maggie Searcy has been promoted to associate art director, ad promo design at HarperCollins Children’s. Affirm Press will work with Linda Kaplan at Kaplan/Defiore Rights to sell rights to select titles throughout the world, including North America. An editing error misreported Nisha Panchal-Terhune‘s promotion at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She is now associate director, creative services. Distribution Lorimer Children & Teens will work with Lerner Publisher Services as their US distributor to the trade and school and public library markets, beginning August 2016. Awards Flora Fraser has won the George Washington Prize for The Washingtons: George and Martha (Knopf)
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Ruth Alltimes will become managing director of Hachette UK’s consolidated children’s book lines on August 8, reporting to group ceo Hilary Murray Hill, leaving her position as fiction publishing director at Harper UK Children’s. Additionally, Anne McNeil has been promoted to senior publisher for Hodder Children’s, Enid Blyton Entertainment and Quercus Children’s, also reporting to Hill. Sarah Lambert moves up to editorial director for fiction for both Hodder Children’s and Quercus Children’s. Deputy managing director of the group Clare Somerville will become commercial director, continuing to lead rights, marketing and publicity teams. She will “focus on sales across all channels, and will lead the commercial activity for Enid Blyton Entertainment.” […]
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At Blue Rider Press/Plume, Brian Ulicky is being promoted to director of publicity as of June 1, co-leading the publicity team with associate publisher Aileen Boyle — to whom he continues to report. Milena Brown will move up to senior publicist, reporting to Ulicky. Kayleigh George joins the group on May 25 as associate marketing director, reporting to Boyle. She has been senior marketing manager at Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway. Kate Keating has joined Random House Children’s Books as director of digital marketing. Previously she was director of social media at L’Oreal USA. Dark Horse vp, book trade sales Michael Martens […]
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At the Penguin Publishing Group, Casey Blue James has been promoted to manager, business development. Scott Haney has joined Chronicle Books as human resources manager, while Alexandra Brown has been hired as marketing & publicity manager, lifestyle. Awards The CMLP presented the second annual revitalized Firecracker Awards on Thursday. Winners included The Things We Don’t Do by Andrés Neuman (Open Letter) for fiction, and The World is On Fire: Scrap, Treasure, and Songs of Apocalypse by Joni Tevis (Milkweed Editions) for nonfiction. Interviews Lithub’s “Gatekeepers” column features a Q&A with Riverhead editorial director Rebecca Saletan. What makes a Riverhead — and Saletan […]
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Brenda Marsh will become managing director of Abrams & Chronicle Books, the UK-based sales and marketing joint venture of Abrams and Chronicle Books, on June 27. Marsh has been vp, director of business development at Abrams since 2014, after almost 15 years in executive positions at Barnes & Noble. She fills the position vacated by Doug Pocock in March. Abrams ceo Michael Jacobs says in the announcement, “Brenda is a proven leader, an inspirational boss, and a superb mentor as well as a seasoned professional who is admired throughout the publishing industry.” Also in the UK, president of SAGE International Stephen Barr has been […]