At Little, Brown, Sarah Murphy has been promoted to associate editor and Amanda Lang has been promoted to associate publicist. Carolyn Schwartz joins World Book Night US as director of development, replacing Erin Cox, who went to St. Martin’s as senior marketing manager. Schwartz was vp, director of advertising and promotion at the Random House publishing group. OverDrive has hired Lee Milstein as chief strategy officer, to help expand their digital media businesses into streaming video and education content and services, as well as direct the company’s overall strategy and strategic partnerships. OverDrive is also opening a New York office […]
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Former Farrar, Straus editor Courtney Hodell will take over as director of the Whiting Writers’ Awards, and Daniel Reid will serve as the foundation’s new executive director, as of November 1. Currently director of strategic planning at the CUNY Institute for Education Policy, Reid takes over from Kellye Rosenheim, who has worked for the Whiting Foundation since 1990. Hodell succeeds Barbara Bristol, who has run the awards for sixteen years. Foundation president Antonia Grumbach said in the announcement of Hodell: “With her distinguished editorial career and extensive work with writers in many genres–including literary fiction, memoir and biography, narrative nonfiction, […]
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Peggy Boulos Smith has joined the Jane Rotrosen Agency’s subsidiary rights division as global rights director. Previously she was an agent at Miller Bowers Griffin. In addition, Danielle Sickles has been promoted to global rights manager. At Graywolf Press, Marisa Atkinson has been promoted to publicity and events manager. Harper Lee‘s lawyer Gloria Phares issued a statement to us Thursday evening regarding the author’s recent settlement of her lawsuit against former agent Sam Pinkus: “Harper Lee has always been a very private person. Her case has ended as she desired: quickly, with her copyright secured to her, and a return […]
People, Etc.: Enderlin Promoted to St. Martin’s Paperback Publisher
Jennifer Enderlin has been promoted to svp, publisher for St. Martin’s Griffin and St. Martin’s Paperbacks, the role previously held by Matthew Shear, who died last month. SMP publisher Sally Richardson said in a statement: “In the past 20 years she has been here, Jen has proven herself an astute acquirer of talent; a gifted hands-on editor; and a supportive colleague always ready to help, advise, and read for other editors. She has a keen understanding of the market and the realities of its timing and competition, which has enabled her to position and publish authors for book-by-book growth as […]
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Crown is designating specialized vertical marketing teams for the imprints that comprise Crown Archetype, to create “even more focused, specialized teams with expertise within our respective core categories.” Meredith McGinnis has been promoted to director of marketing for Harmony Books, focused on health, wellness, spirituality, and self-improvement, with marketing manager Christina Foxley working only on Harmony titles. Julie Cepler moves over to serve as director of marketing for Archetype, Crown Forum, and Three Rivers Press, while Tommy Cabrera is promoted to marketing associate for those imprints. VP, director of marketing and publicity for Crown Business Tara Gilbride will continue in […]
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Stephen Power has joined Amacom as senior editor, responsible for the management and human resources publishing programs. Previously he was a senior editor at Wiley. Liese Mayer will join Scribner as editor on September 16. Previously she was an associate editor at The Overlook Press. Sara Hartman-Seeskin will join Sourcebooks as rights and exports manager. Previously she was international rights manager for Free Spirit Publishing. In addition, Liz Kelsch has been promoted to publicity manager and Nicole Komasinski moves up to associate graphic designer. Claire Anderson-Wheeler has joined Regal Literary as an agent. Previously she was an agent at Anderson […]