Personnel
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Eric A. Schmidt will join Basic as executive editor on April 29th. Schmidt was most recently senior acquisitions editor at the University of California Press.
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Demetri Papadimitropoulos has been promoted to publicist at Pantheon.
New Sourcebooks Children’s Book Imprint
Sourcebooks will launch a new children’s book imprint, broadly publishing fiction, nonfiction, and graphic titles across age categories. It will publish 16-24 titles per year. Joining Sourcebooks on April 11 to build the imprint are two editorial staffers from Katherine Tegen Books: Ben Rosenthal, who was editorial director, and Mabel Hsu, who was executive editor. They will report to Sourcebooks editorial director Jenne Abramowitz. Sourcebooks SVP and children’s book publisher Jennifer Gonzalez said in a release, “We are absolutely thrilled to announce the expansion of our publishing program with the introduction of a new imprint, helmed by Ben and Mabel. […]