At Random House Children’s, Till Wirth has joined the new media marketing team in the new position of manager, digital content and product development, and Liz Cosulich has been promoted to subsidiary rights associate. In the publicity department Dominique Cimina has been promoted to publicity manager and online media specialist; Meg O’Brien moves up to senior publicist and online media specialist; Casey Lloyd, Emily Pourciau, and Elizabeth Zajac were each promoted to publicist; and Jessica Shoffel has become an associate publicist. At Plume, Mary Pomponio has been promoted to publicity manager. Longtime publishing executive and founder of Limelight Editions Melvyn […]
Personnel
Random House Discloses Sale of Japanese and Korean Units
Random House revealed quietly in an internal personnel announcement that over the past 10 months the company has retrenched from two pieces of the Peter Olson expansionist years. In September, they discontinued their Japanese joint venture, Random House Kodansha, which began in 2003, and in February they divested their Random House Korea, which they had started as a joint venture with JoongAng and bought full control of four years ago. In both cases, the units were sold to the CEOs and executives who run the companies. Random House Kodansha ceo Yuji Takeda led the buyout of what is now called […]
People and Awards
Sarah Knight will join the Simon & Schuster adult trade imprint on May 24 as a senior editor, acquiring both fiction and nonfiction. She was most recently an editor at Shaye Areheart Books, will begin her new position on May 24th. At Tor and Forge, Justin Golenbock was promoted from Publicist to Senior Publicist. Goldberg McDuffie Communications announced the promotions of Grace McQuade to managing director; Angela Baggetta Hayes to director of GMC Digital; Megan Underwood Beatie to deputy director of GMC Digital; Kathleen Carter to publicity manager; and Liza Lucas to Senior Publicist. Dennis Hayes joined National Book Network […]
More People News and Announcements
Brad Parsons will join the Hachette Book Group on May 24 as associate director of their online marketing team, focusing on fiction. He will report to executive director of online marketing Kelly Leonard. Currently senior editor for books at Amazon, Parsons has been with the etailer since 1999. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced two electronic agreements today. They have partnered with NetGalley to deliver galleys, promotional materials, and other digital content, and they have also joined Edelweiss’s interactive digital catalog system.
Hachette's Nashville Lines Will Move Some Functions to New York
Hachette Book Group announced change to their Nashville-based FaithWords and Center Street lines that will see a portion of the division, along with some its functions, relocated to New York–“where they will have more opportunity to interface directly with the literary agents and media located there.” They will create a new Center Street office in New York, comprising an editor, a publicist and an assistant. Marketing, advertising and promotion responsibilities for both lines will be taken over by New York-based personnel, where they will hire a dedicated online promotions person and marketing manager. Among existing staff, publicity director Jana Burson […]
McDonald Moves to FSG, Chin Is Confirmed, and More People News
Riverhead executive editor Sean McDonald will join Farrar, Straus as executive editor and director of paperback publishing, bolstering their team with the departure of Lorin Stein for the Paris Review. McDonald’s author at Riverhead have included Junot DÃaz, Sloane Crosley, Aleksandar Hemon, John Hodgman, Steven Johnson–and of course, James Frey. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Rux Martin has been promoted to senior executive editor. At Harper Business, Matt Inman has been promoted to associate editor. Yesterday the Senate unanimously confirmed Judge Denny Chin‘s appointment to the the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Ordinarily he would move into the new seat in […]