John Siciliano has been promoted to executive editor, Penguin Classics. At Atria, Lisa Sciambra has been promoted to deputy director of publicity, while Valerie Vennix moves up to associate publicist. At Harper, Amy Bendell has been promoted to senior editor. The winners of the remaining CWA Dagger Awards were announced Thursday evening at the Crime Thriller Awards Ceremony: Gold: Dead Lions by Mick Herron (Soho Crime) Ian Fleming Steel: Ghostman by Roger Hobbs (Knopf) John Creasey New Blood: Norwegian by Night by Derek Miller (HMH) Alice Munro‘s daughter, Jenny, will accept the Nobel Prize for Literature on her mother’s behalf […]
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Kirshbaum to Leave Amazon Publishing In January
Larry Kirshbaum, 69, will leave his position as publisher of Amazon’s US trade publishing imprints on January 17, roughly two and a half years after joining the company, as first reported this morning by Shelf Awareness. Since that report, Amazon has officially confirmed what Shelf had “learned” and supplied the departure date. The company said, “We’re sorry to see him go, and wish him the best of luck as he returns to life as a literary agent.” Editor-in-chief for Amazon’s adult imprints Daphne Durham has already been assigned Kirshbaum’s responsibilities as publisher. Additional elements of their unsourced story — “the […]
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Samantha Edelson has been promoted to marketing manager for Macmillan Audio. Mobifusion has hired Michelle Lewy as director of publisher accounts, based in New York. Most recently, she was director of digital media services at Baker and Taylor. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Siena Koncsol has been promoted to publicist. Longtime Reed Exhibitions executive with oversight for BEA, svp Courtney Muller has resigned from her position. BEA show director Steve Rosato notes that Reed had realigned show responsibilities in August and put BEA under the supervision of Greg Topalian, a former BEA show director. Rosato now reports to Topalian. He writes: “On […]
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Webb Younce has joined Thomas Nelson imprint Nelson Books as associate publisher/executive editor, filling the role previously held by Bryan Norman. He and is wife are relocating to Nashville. Most recently he was at Free Press, until it was disbanded as a separate Simon & Schuster unit in 2012. At Fodor’s Travel, Arabella Bowen has been promoted to the newly created position of vp, editor in chief. Skyhorse will launch a new library-focused imprint, Carrel Books, in fall 2014, with an initial list of 20-30 titles annually in categories such as medicine/health, history, biography/memoir, and business/careers. The imprint will be overseen […]
People: New ICM Partners Include Dahl and Joel, and More
ICM Partners has expanded their partnership to encompass 11 more agents. They join the 27 partners who took control of the firm in 2012 after completing a buyout of previous controlling owner Rizvi Traverse Management. Two book publishing agents — Kris Dahl and Jennifer Joel — are among the new partners. (Sloan Harris, Esther Newberg and Amanda Urban were all part of the initial group of partners from last year.) The partners noted in a group statement: “The culture of professionalism, collegiality and teamwork that we enjoy at the agency will continue to grow with the addition of our new […]
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Associate publisher of Thomas Dunne Books Pete Wolverton has taken on the the additional title of editor-in-chief. St. Martin’s publisher at large Dan Weiss is resigning on October 30 after 4 years with the company. He can be reached at dweissco@gmail.com. Weiss will focus on consulting, strategic investment and philanthropy. Also at St. Martin’s, marketing manager Eileen Rothschild has been promoted to associate editor. She will also be the content coordinator for SMP’s e-originals. David Adams has joined Open Road Media as an associate acquisitions editor. Previously he was a literary scout with Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, and before then an […]