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.
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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 […]
People, Etc.
Netta Rabin will move to Scholastic’s Klutz as vp of product development, reporting to general mananger Stacy Lellos. She has been associate art director and editor for children’s books (as well as other titles) at Workman. Stacie Williams will join Coffee House Press as publicist in August. Most recently, she has been at Harper Collins, after many years working at Harry W. Schwartz Bookshops and then Boswell Book Company. Julia Haav will join Princeton University Press on July 21 as senior publicist. She has been at Yale University Press, working on titles in art, architecture, urban studies, and poetry. Christine […]
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Amazon Publishing editorial director of Little A and New Harvest Julia Cheiffetz announced on Twitter, “I resigned from Amazon Publishing yesterday. I’m grateful to my devoted team and proud of our books. On to new adventures.” Rachel Bressler will join Plume as editorial director on July 14, taking over from Phil Budnick (recently named director of field & wholesaler sales for Penguin’s adult hardcover division). Bressler was the executive director of corporate and publisher relations at The Park Literary Group, and prior to that was associate publisher at Ecco. Paul Whitlatch is joining the Hachette Books imprint as senior editor, starting […]