Scher Foord has joined Scholastic as vp, creative for Scholastic.com, reporting to Dani Nadel. Foord was most recently executive director, UX and design at Condé Nast. Shannon Jamieson Vazquez has joined Open Road as strategic advisor, true crime, reporting to Philip Rappaport. Vazquez was most recently senior editor at Berkley. Simon & Schuster Children’s announced a number of recent promotions. Andrea Welch has been promoted to executive editor, Beach Lane Books, while Nicole Ellul moves up to associate editor, Simon Pulse. Emma Sector has been promoted to assistant editor at Aladdin, while Sarah Jane Abbott moves up to assistant editor, […]
Personnel
People: Johnson Moves to FSG, and More
Jenna Johnson will join Farrar, Straus as executive editor on June 6, after 14 years at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Also, Jeremy Davies moves to FSG as editor on May 9, from Dalkey Archive Press, where he began in 2005. In other moves, Emi Ikkanda will join Spiegel & Grau as a senior editor on May 16, coming over after 8 years at Holt. Jessica Sit joins Paper Latern Lit as editor. She was previously at Atheneum. Chris Smith has been promoted to publicist for Viking and Penguin Books. Saraciea Fennell will join Little, Brown Children’s as publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Scholastic. NY Magazine has an […]
People: Gelbman to SMP, and More
Former Berkley Publishing Group president Leslie Gelbman has joined St. Martin’s Press as executive editor-at-large, effective immediately. The move was widely expected since the announced signing of Nora Roberts – whom Gelbman edited – by SMP in early March. In her 27 years at Penguin, Gelbman also edited such authors as Ken Follett, Patricia Cornwell, Jayne Ann Krentz, and Julie Garwood. SMP president and publisher Sally Richardson said in the announcement: “We have long admired Leslie’s legendary gift for acquiring and editing some of the most popular storytellers of our time and she will continue to do the same for us. I […]
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Diana Velasquez has been promoted to senior marketing manager for the Gallery Books Group imprints. At Simon & Schuster’s education and library marketing department, Candace Greene McManus has been promoted to senior marketing manager; Anthony Parisi moves up to marketing manager; and Christine Naulty has been promoted to associate marketing manager. Emily Murdock Baker has left Penguin, where she was most recently an associate editor, to launch EMB Editorial, an independent editing service. At Temple University Press, Aaron Javsicas has been promoted to editor-in-chief. Awards The Edgar Awards were announced Thursday evening, including several milestones: Lori Roy, Best Novel winner […]
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Trish Todd is returning to Touchstone as vp, executive editor — reporting to Susan Moldow. Todd had been at Touchstone for 15 years, up until 2010, where she was editor-in-chief, before moving over to Simon & Schuster. Moldow writes to staff, “In the more than twenty years that Trish and I have both served in various capacities at Simon & Schuster, I have always hoped that we might work directly together.” Marilynne Robinson is retiring from her position as a F. Wendell Miller Professor at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop after teaching there for 25 years. Thereafter she will serve as professor emerita. Mary Rowles […]
People: Hirshey to Depart HarperCollins
Harper publisher Jonathan Burnham wrote to staff that executive editor David Hirshey “has decided to relocate to Los Angeles where his daughter is pursuing a career as a TV writer and is soon to be married.” He will leave the publisher on June 17 after nearly 18 years with the company. Burnham notes, “We wish David the very best for his new life in California. We also thank him for all his many contributions to Harper.” In other personnel news, Amazon’s country manager for China Doug Gurr will return to the UK to take over as head of the company’s business there in […]