Jennifer Schuster will become executive editor, Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press, reporting to Tricia Boczkowski, as of April 18. She had been at NAL. Amelia Possanza will join Flatiron Books as senior publicist on April 11. Previously she was a publicist at Touchstone. In addition, Kimberly Escobar will join as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Grand Central. Lisa Baker will join Aitken Alexander Associates as director of translation rights in August, and will also represent her own list of clients. She was rights director for Faber and Faber. Longtime co-owner of the Once Upon a Crime Bookstore Gary Shulze, 66, […]
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Stacy Creamer will join Regan Arts as svp, executive editor on April 15. Most recently she was executive editor at Hachette Books and before then was publisher at Touchstone. Andy Hunter has been named publisher of LitHub.com, overseeing the growing site — which is a collaboration between Hunter’s Electric Literature and Grove/Atlantic. (Hunter also serves as publisher of Catapult.) Krishan Trotman has joined Hachette Books as senior editor. Previously she was a senior editor at Skyhorse. In addition, Hallie Patterson moves over to Hachette Books as publicity and marketing manager, from Little, Brown Children’s. At Chronicle Books, Molly Krauss has […]
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Random House will try to beat the celebrity imprint jinx in a new partnership with Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner for a Lenny imprint. Overseen by editor-in-chief Andy Ward and launching in late 2017, the line will feature the “emerging voices…that Lena and Jenni Konner are already attracting and publishing so successfully in their newsletter and on their popular site.” Ward says in the announcement, “Working with Lena, Jenni and the editors of Lenny, we plan to publish a select number of titles each year to build a varied, compelling, and voice-driven list.” Dunham adds, “Jenni and I are both voracious […]
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Brett Collins has joined Open Road Media as svp, product development. Previously he was founder and digital strategist at Counterspace. Michael Gedonius has joined as vp, integrated national sales. Previously he was an account manager at Playboy Enterprises. Finally, Julie Blattberg has been promoted to vp, strategic operations. Jon M. Sweeney will join Ave Maria Press in late June as executive editor. Most recently, he was editorial director at Franciscan Media, and publisher of Paraclete Press. Sanj Kharbanda has left his position as senior vice president, digital markets at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Awards James Hannaham won the PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for […]
People: Morin Promoted to CEO at Ingram
Ingram Content Group president and chief operating officer Shawn Morin has been promoted to president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. John Ingram “will continue to be active as chairman of the company.” Ingram says in the announcement, “Shawn is a proven leader, well-known across our industry, and he is certainly the right CEO as we write the next chapter in our company’s story. Ingram has experienced tremendous growth and transformation, particularly over the past few years. Shawn’s leadership, technology and engineering backgrounds, and passion for our business and our clients have helped make this evolution possible.” Ingram had taken back […]
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Olivia Taussig has joined Viking Penguin as publicist. Previously she was a publicist at Other Press. Yanni Kuznia has been promoted to managing editor and chief operating officer of Subterranean Press. The Savannah Book Festival has hired Kim Bockius-Suwyn as its new executive director. Rotraut Susanne Berner of Germany and Cao Wenxuan of China were named as the winners of the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award.