Lisa Yoskowitz will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as executive editor on July 21. Previously she was senior editor at Disney-Hyperion. At Chronicle Books, Kelli Chipponeri has been promoted to editorial director, children’s. Noah Ballard has joined Curtis Brown as a literary agent. He had previously been with Emma Sweeney Agency. He will continue to represent literary fiction, thrillers and narrative non-fiction. 800-CEO-READ announced a number of changes following the retirement of founder and president Jack Covert. Sally Haldorson has been promoted to general manager and will oversee day-to-day operations of the company. Aaron Schleicher takes over as […]
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Approximately 25 Let Go at Globe Pequot & Lyons Press
Two months after Rowman & Littlefield acquired Globe Pequot Press from Morris Communications, the Guilford, CT-based publisher has let go approximately 25 staffers, including a number of people from editorial and sales. Four Lyons Press editors and a manager were let go, as were the managers of Globe Pequot Press and Falcon Guides. In their places, Amy Lyons has been promoted to editorial director at Globe Pequot Press and Katie Benoit has been promoted to editorial director of Falcon. Keith Wallman has been promoted to editorial director at Lyons Press and will hire “new editors to assist him in rebuilding the Lyons program in its traditional areas of […]
Welcome, @penguinrandomhouse.com
The consolidated email domain for North American employees of Penguin Random House has been implemented and everyone has been issued a new email address based on the default protocol of firstinitiallastname@penguinrandomhouse.com. But the previous email addresses, for both penguingroup.com and randomhouse.com, will continue to work “in perpetuity,” spokesperson Stuart Applebaum tells us. No other Penguin Random House e-mail domain changes have been implemented yet for other territories.
People: Nadine Gordimer Dies
Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer, 90, died at home in Johannesburg. Gordimer won the Booker in 1974 and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize in 2002, along with the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1991. Jamil Ahmad, 83, author of THE WANDERING FALCON, died at his home in Islamabad after a long illness. Ahmad’s debut novel was published in 2011 when he was 79 after being excerpted in the “Pakistan” issue of Granta. At St Martin’s, Nancy Trypuc has been promoted to vp, creative services. Jerry Bilek will join the Minnesota Historical Society Press as sales manager on August 1. Bilek is the owner of Monkey […]
People: McGrath Named EIC At Riverhead
Sarah McGrath has been promoted to editor in chief at Riverhead, where she has worked since 2006, joining editorial director Becky Saletan and publisher Geoff Kloske in the editorial leadership of the imprint. At Canada’s House of Anansi, Janie Yoon has been promoted to editorial director, and Laura Meyer has been promoted to publicity director, taking over as longtime publicity director Laura Repas leaves the company on August 1 (relocating with her family to Vancouver). Emily Mockler returns from leave next month as senior publicist; Cindy Ma is being promoted to publicist; and Jenna Simpson has been hired full time, […]
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Teresa Zampino joins Penguin Random House’s international sales & marketing group as Penguin Group marketing manager, international. She was previously international sales manager at Hachette Book Group. Candlewick Press has “realigned their marketing teams” to support their growth “and capitalize even more robustly on new opportunities.” The following people have been promoted: Susan Batcheller is svp, commercial operations, Candlewick, in addition to her ongoing role of group commercial operations director for parent company the Walker Books Group. Jennifer Roberts is vp of publicity and executive director of marketing campaigns; Sharon Hancock is executive director of library marketing and outreach; Kathleen […]