The ALA’s Carnegie Medals went to Richard Ford‘s CANADA for fiction and Timothy Egan‘s SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER for nonfiction. Nicole Russo has been hired as director, children’s marketing and publicity for Abrams Children’s, Amulet, and Appleseed. Previously she was deputy director of publicity at Simon & Schuster Children’s. In addition, Paul Colarusso has been named marketing manager for the adult trade division. Previously he was a marketing manager at the Aperture Foundation. The new Atria imprint that Dawn Davis will run will be named 37 Ink (for the 37th parallel north).
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Seale Ballenger will move to Disney Publishing on July 8 as publicity director. He has been director of marketing and publicity at Zola Books. James MacNevin will join McGill-Queen’s University Press on August 1 as acquisitions editor. Most recently he was acquisitions editor at Canadian Scholars’ Press in Toronto. Former Chicago Sun-Times books editor Henry Kisor reports on his blog that the newspaper will discontinue their books coverage. Kisor, who retired from his post at the paper in 2006 “at the beginning of the disaster,” writes: “I can’t say I was surprised. In fact, I’m amazed that authors and books […]
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At Macmillan Children’s, Caitlin Sweeny has been promoted to digital marketing manager, taking the lead in managing all digital marketing initiatives for titles and campaigns. Ksenia Winnicki has been promoted to associate digital marketing manager. Also, Susan Dobinick has been promoted to associate editor at Margaret Ferguson Books. Becky Thomas has joined Ben Mason at the literary agency Fox Mason Ltd in the UK. She was previously at William Morris Endeavor. Forbes releases their annual list of the most “powerful celebrities,” which bases rank on a combination of estimated earnings as well as squishier “TV/radio rank; press rank; marketability rank; and social […]
People, Etc.: Legato Announces 20 Clients
The new distribution “affiliate” of Publishers Group West run by Mark Suchomel, Legato Publishers Group, announced 20 publishers that have signed on as clients. All will start with Legato on January 1, 2014, except for Buffalo Media Works, which will use Legao to sell and distribute their books immediately. All 20 also have been clients of IPG, where Suchomel worked for 27 years until he was dismissed in March. Legato has said they aim to take on 30 to 40 publisher clients over the next two to three years. Robin Desser is the latest recipient of The Center for Fiction’s […]
Harper to Shift Operations Jobs to New Jersey
HarperCollins evp, operations and technology Larry Nevins announced internally yesterday a “significant change” with “the creation of a new central operations hub” in South Brunswick, NJ in a facility shared with Dow Jones and the Wall Street Journal. The new hub will comprise inventory management, production, ETM and e-book processing, as well as their data center and telephone infrastructure. VP of production and creative operations Tracey Menzies “will transition and lead operations at the new location as the central hub is developed.” That extensive change means they company is “eliminating the positions in New York City and hiring for new […]
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Candice Vallimont recently joined Chronicle Books as distribution account client manager. Previously she was a product manager at Hachette New Zealand. In the UK, Laura Hassan has been named editorial director of Guardian Faber, the new nonfiction imprint created by Faber and the newspaper, effective August 5. She is currently editorial director at Vintage Classics UK. At Harlequin, Beth Attwood will join the company as managing editor coordinator, New York/Toronto on July 2. In the UK, Pippa Roscoe has been promoted to acting assistant editor, Modern/Presents; Laurie Johnson has been promoted to assistant editor; and Megan Haslam has been promoted […]