Tara Singh Carlson will formally move over to Putnam as senior editor. She will acquire hardcover titles for the Putnam list, while continuing to acquire trade paperback originals for Penguin, which will “predominantly” issue the paperbacks of her Putnam hardcovers as well. Joan Didion is the subject of a documentary film in progress, “We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live,” co-directed by her nephew Griffin Dunne and Susanne Rostock. After shooting more than 60 hours of footage — largely with Didion — Dunne and Rostock’s company Rava Films has launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking a minimum of $80,000 in funding […]
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People: Green to ICM, and More
Following the dissolution of Jeff Berg’s start-up agency Resolution, veteran agent Rich Green has joined the media rights department of ICM, based in Los Angeles. Green was at CAA for 9 years before joining Resolution, and worked at UTA prior to that. He has represented authors including Jonathan Franzen, Matthew Quick, Chuck Palahniuk, Neal Stephenson and Deborah Harkness in their film deals. In other agency news, further to the NY Post report a week ago, private equity firm TPG is now said to be spending about $225 million to increase their share in CAA from 35 percent to a controlling 53 percent. […]
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Open Road announced a number of promotions in its marketing department. Allison Underwood has been promoted to director, digital marketing & analytics. Laura DeSilva has been promoted to senior marketing manager, while Amy Grillo moves up to senior merchandising manager. Jack Palmer has been promoted to marketing & analytics manager, while Grace Srinivasiah moves up to digital marketing associate. Peg O’Donnell has joined Lonely Planet as senior sales manager & children’s specialist. Previously she was a national account manager at Publishers Group West. Tim Close has joined David C. Cook as senior director of marketing. Previously he was ceo at […]
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St. Martin’s Press announced a number of promotions in its art department. Mike Storrings has been promoted to vp, creative director, while David Rotstein has been promoted to executive art director, with the additional title of creative art director for Minotaur. Finally, Olga Grlic has been promoted to executive art director, Griffin and SMP Mass Market Paperbacks. Chief Publishing Officer at David C. Cook Dan Rich will retire from the company in May 2015 after more than eight years with the company. Prior to joining David C. Cook Rich served as founding publisher of NavPress and WaterBrook Press and held […]
Perseus Realigns Senior Management for Growth; Navratil Departs Running Press
Following the cancellation of the plan to sell the Perseus Books Group to Hachette and Ingram this summer, on Thursday Perseus ceo David Steinberger announced to staff a realignment and streamlining of senior management responsibilities “to position our company for even greater success in the years to come.” He tells us, “We’ve been focusing on the sustained path of continued growth now, in the aftermath of the transaction that didn’t happen.” In the first major hire since coo Joe Mangan left for Hachette in early 2014, Raymond Floyd has been hired as svp for operations, reporting to current coo Charles Gallagher. Floyd’s experience […]
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Eric Schwartz joined the Columbia University Press as editorial director last month. He replaces Jennifer Crewe, who was promoted to president and director of the Press in June. He was senior editor for sociology and cognitive science at Princeton University Press since 2008. Doug Lockhart will join Harper Christian as senior vice president of Bible marketing and outreach. He was at Zondervan publishing partner Biblica, the copyright holder and worldwide publisher of the New International Version (NIV) Bible translation. Harper calls the appointment “a strategic decision to continue the focus on its Bible business.” Alyson Forbes will join Hachette Book Group as […]