Jessica Zimmerman has joined S&S’s adult trade imprint as senior publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Center Street. Danny Yanez has joined Franklin & Siegal Associates as literary scout. He was previously at Vintage/Anchor. Jimmy Fallon has been added to the lineup for the BEA Author Breakfast on Thursday morning (June 7), making a “special ‘guest appearance,'” to promote his THANK YOU NOTES 2, which publishes today. Canongate rights director Polly Collingridge will leave to the company to relocate to San Francisco (as her husband Peter Collingridge joins Safari Books Online). She has been with Canongate for 11 years. […]
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Cambridge University Press chief operating officer since 2010 Peter Phillips moves up to chief executive of the publisher, taking over from Stephen Bourne as he gives up the top position as planned though continues to work with the Press. Phillips had previously been on the board of UK communications and media regulator Board of Ofcom, and served as coo for BBC News and director of business development for the BBC in the past. For Neil Young‘s high-profile interview at BEA on Wednesday, June 6, it has been announced that author and musician Patti Smith will be the one asking the questions. (Seating at the lunchtime […]
People: Harlequin Reorganizes Marketing Channels Into Single Digital Unit
Earlier this month Harlequin reorganized its North American digital, retail, direct-to-consumer, and physical sales and marketing channels into a single division, which will be spearheaded by Craig Swinwood, named coo of the entire division. “By bringing these groups together under a single division, we wanted to strengthen the focus on the customers, enjoy the synergies of the marketing group and help build Harlequin’s brand further,” Swinwood told us Friday morning. “We’re committed to being available wherever, whenever, and however women want to shop.” As part of the reorganization, Brent Lewis, now executive vp digital and retail marketing, will oversee a […]
Awards: Rea Award to Baxter; Carnegie Nominates Lauded Authors
The twenty-fifth Rea Award for the Short Story has gone to Charles Baxter. The prize recognizes a US or Canadian writer who has “made a significant contribution to the discipline of the short story as an art form.” Baxter’s works include six published collections of stories. The jurors wrote (in part), “Baxter’s stories have especially shown an acute feeling for the landscape of marriage, childhood, and art.” Announcement The new Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction announced the finalists for the two awards: Nonfiction Catherine the Great: Portrait of a Woman, by Robert K. Massie The Information: […]
People: Frost, Ambrosi, Fuentes, and George
Former president and publisher of the Crown Publishing Group Jenny Frost has joined Scholastic as epublisher and svp ebook strategy. Frost has been working as a consultant for the past two years. Sterling vp marketing and publicity Leigh Ann Ambrosi will join Crown Archetype in the newly created position of vp, Brand Publishing Project Director on June 4, reporting to Tina Constable. In her position, Ambrosi will serve as project director for select publications by key health, fitness, and self-help authors within the Crown Archetype and Harmony Books imprints, and she will also serve as the primary liaison with the author […]
People: Changes at the Top for Nebraska Book, McGraw-Hill Education
Mark Oppegard, ceo of bankrupt NBC Acquisition Corp.–the owner of Nebraska Book Co.–will retire after 14 years leading the company and 42 years of service in all. He will stay on as evp “during a transition period that’s expected to last several months.” COO since 1999 Barry Major takes over as ceo. SVP at the college store division’s Neebo brand Steven Clemente moves up to coo. He joined the company in 2010. Report While McGraw-Hill is in “the final stages” of their search for a new head for their education division prior to its spinoff at the end of the […]