Longtime executive director of the National Book Foundation Harold Augenbraum will leave his position at the end of March 2016. The Foundation’s board of directors has formed a search committee and selected executive search firm Spencer Stuart to look for a new executive director. “I have very much enjoyed my time here at the Foundation,” Augenbraum said in the announcement, “but it’s time for me to seek new challenges in my professional life and for new leadership at the Foundation as it looks toward the future.” Perseus Books ceo and National Book Foundation board chair David Steinberger added: “We owe […]
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At Basic Books, Dan Gerstle is being promoted to senior editor, while Leah Stecher moves up to associate editor. Jessica Brown has joined Convergent Books as publicist/marketer. Previously she was a publicist at Howard Books. Sourcebooks announced a number of promotions in its design team. Dawn Adams is being promoted to art director for the Casablanca imprint, and Adrienne Krogh moves up to art director for Landmark. Additionally, Nicole Komasinski is being promoted to associate art director and Jillian Rahn is being promoted to senior production designer. Thérèse Coen will join Madeleine Milburn Ltd as rights agent in July. Previously […]
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Author, former New Yorker editor and former editor-in-chief of Random House Daniel Menaker has now formally joined McCormick Literary as an affiliate agent. He started agenting and was informally associated with McCormick in early 2014. At HarperCollins, Samantha Hagerbaumer has been promoted to senior director, international sales & marketing, expanding her role to include marketing for the HarperCollins Global Publishing Program while keeping responsibilities for sales of HarperCollins US English-language books to affiliated companies in UK, Canada, ANZ and India. Hagerbaumer continues to report to David Wolfson with a dotted line to Chantal Restivo-Alessi. Perseus announced a number of changes in its […]
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At Penguin Random House, Lori de Raza has been promoted to vp, director, Crawfordsville operations. Sandy Smith has joined Chronicle Books as marketing manager, entertainment & art. She previously worked in marketing at Wiley and IDG Books. At St. Martin’s Press, Justin Velella has been promoted to senior publicist. Announcements Penguin Random House Publisher Services has launched In Focus, which provides publisher clients with strategic marketing solutions for issues such as branding, positioning, audience targeting, media planning built upon extensive consumer insights and analysis.
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At Ecco, Ashley Garland has been promoted to senior publicity manager. Ami Greko will start working at Penguin Random House UK next Monday, as product manager of their author portal, reporting to digital publisher Dan Franklin. She was book marketing strategist at Goodreads before relocating to London earlier this year. At Sourcebooks, Cat Clyne has been promoted to associate editor for Casablanca, their romance imprint. In addition, Skye Agnew has been promoted to associate managing editor. At Open Road Integrated Media, David Adams has been promoted to editor. Kerry Cahill has joined the Johns Hopkins University Press as sales director of the books division, […]
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Juan Felipe Herrera has been named Poet Laureate, the first Latino writer to receive the honor since its inception in 1936. Librarian of Congress James H. Billington said in the announcement that Herrera’s poems “champion voices, traditions and histories, as well as a cultural perspective, which is a vital part of our larger American identity.” Herrera told the Washington Post: “I’m looking forward to a whole new world — and a new me. The times now seem to be evolving with voices of color. All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to […]