At Simon & Schuster’s adult trade imprint, Sammy Perlmutter has been promoted to assistant editor, and Rebecca Marsh and Andrea Rogoff move up to associate publicists. Kathleen Calhoun Nettleton has been promoted to president and publisher of Pelican Publishing, effective immediately. First joining the company in 1983, Nettleton served as promotion director from 1985 until her promotion in 2008 to assistant to the publisher, her late father Milburn Calhoun. As part of the ALA’s annual State of America’s Libraries Report, their Office for Intellectual Freedom has released their list of the ten most frequently challenged books and authors in 2011: […]
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At Artisan Books, Allison McGeehon has been promoted to director of publicity and marketing. At Holt, Melanie DeNardo has been promoted to associate director of publicity, reporting to Pat Eisemann. Former coo of Open Road Integrated Media Chris Lederer has joined AlixPartners as a director in its media practice division. Elly Weisenberg Kelly has joined independent book publicity firm JKSCommunications. She was most recently publicity manager at Grand Central. After a lengthy investigation, the Montana Attorney General concluded that author Greg Mortenson mismanaged the charity he established and helped to run, the Central Asia Institute, and found that he personally profited […]
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Editorial director of Book Business and Publishing Executive magazines Noelle Skodzinski has left the company, publisher Matt Steinmetz confirms to DBW. Palgrave Macmillan is launching a new imprint, Palgrave Pivot, that will blend journal and digital-short publishing models. At an average of 100 pages, they will publish works of a length “between the journal article and the conventional monograph” and “undertake to publish within 3 months of acceptance after full peer review.” The focus is on “new important research, or are a review of an area with broad appeal.” Publishing both digitally and on demand, they will sell titles individually as well as in […]
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Timothy Travaglini has joined Open Road Integrated Media as director of children’s acquisitions, reporting to advisor Barbara Marcus. Travaglini will help expand Open Road’s ebook acquisition of backlist children’s titles spanning young adult, middle grade, and picture books, as well as acquiring frontlist titles. He was formerly senior editor at Putnam Children’s. At Thomas Nelson, Russ Schwartz has been promoted to vp of independent Christian retail sales. Former deputy director of publicity at Holt Maggie Sivon has joined Amazon Publishing in New York as a publicist. Christine Manfield‘s TASTING INDIA was named the IACP’s cookbook of the year on Tuesday. Among […]
People: Morrison to Lead Picador
Setting aside any doubts about Macmillan’s committment to Picador, the company has hired Stephen Morrison as vp, publisher for Picador Books starting April 30. He will report to both Jonathan Galassi and Stephen Rubin. Morrison is currently associate publisher and editor-in-chief at Penguin. His “mandate is to make Picador one of the industry’s most undaunted, aggressive marketing machines, culling books from all of Macmillan’s divisions, including St. Martins, FSG and Holt.” Reporting to Morrison will be vp, sales and marketing Darin Keesler; executive director of publicity James Meader; senior editor David Rogers; creative director Henry Yee; and managing editor Kolt […]
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Kelly Snowden joins Ten Speed Press as associate manager, publicity and marketing, cookbooks. She spent the previous six years at Food & Wine Magazine, most recently as staff assistant features editor. In addition, Sarah Pulver has joined the imprint as designer, having most recently been a design fellow at Chronicle Books, and Ashley Matuszak joins as marketing assistant. Erin Buterbaugh joins MacGregor Literary as a literary agent, focusing on children’s books, YA, lifestyle titles, cookbooks, the arts, and some select fiction. The WSJ continues its series of articles praising Random House, this time focused on Gina Centrello‘s successful leadership of […]