Hachette Book Group is celebrating making Crain’s Best Places to Work in NYC for the second year in a row, rising to No. 19 (from 24 a year ago). Norton has named Edward Crutchley the next managing director of its UK subsidiary, effective February 1, 2011, after Alan Cameron retires. Cameron is the firm’s founding managing sirector, joining Norton in 1979. Crutchley has been most recently regional sales director, institutional online sales at John Wiley UK, which he joined when the parent company purchased Blackwell. (Norton uses Wiley UK’s warehouse.) Steven Wilson has joined Book Sales Inc. New York as […]
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Oxford University Press announces, via Publishing Trends, that publisher of trade and academic books Niko Pfund will take on the additional position of interim president of OUP USA. The University of California Press has hired Alison Mudditt as its new executive director, taking over next month when Lynne Withey retires. She had been executive vice president in charge of higher education programs at SAGE Publications. (According to the LAT, the job pays $244,900.) Simon & Schuster associate publisher since 2004 Aileen Boyle is leaving the company at the end of the year to attend graduate school at NYU and spend […]
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Courtney Young has been promoted to senior editor for Portfolio, Sentinel, and Current. At HarperCollins, David Sweeney has been promoted to vp, special markets responsible for mail order, retail, wholesale and premium, taking on added responsibility of leading the premium sales team. Alexandra Harris‘s ROMANTIC MODERNS: English Writers, Artists and the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper, won the Guardian First Book Award. Melville House has agreed to publish the winner of the new Paris Literary Prize, to be given by the Paris bookstore Shakespeare and Company to a previously unpublished writer working in English. The web site for […]
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Patricia Eisemann is joining Henry Holt as director of publicity on January 3, 2011. She was most recently assistant director, media relations and community affairs/corporate communications at The New York Times, after having been director of publicity at Scribner. Maggie Sivon has been promoted to deputy director of publicity. Counterpoint managing editor Laura Mazer will take on the additional role of executive editor for Soft Skull Press as well, managing acquisitions and operations for Soft Skull on top of her other responsibilities. Counterpoint’s Charlie Winton, Jack Shoemaker, Dan Smetanka, Julie Pinkerton and Roxanna Aliaga will all acquire for Soft Skull alongside […]
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Matthew Benjamin is moving to Touchstone on December 13 as senior editor, reporting to Trish Todd. He has been at HarperCollins, most recently as senior editor at William Morrow. At Touchstone, he will focus on acquiring men’s interest, celebrity, pop culture, sports, health, and investigative journalism. Allison Lorentzen is joining Penguin Books as editor. SHe was most recently an associate editor at HarperCollins. She will be acquiring both fiction and nonfiction titles, as well as working closely with Kathryn Court on Viking and Penguin acquisitions. The Lambda Literary Awards will be the new home for the Outstanding Mid-Career Novelists’ Prize, […]
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Former longtime director of rights and contracts at McClelland & Stewart Marilyn Biderman has opened an eponymous literary agency, based in Toronto, and is out with her first submission in both the US and Canada: French-Canadian Marguerite Pigeon’s debut novel OPEN PIT. Biderman says she will represent genre, commercial and literary fiction, along with narrative nonfiction and memoir and “the occasional expert as a client as well.” In deciding her next step in publishing, Biderman says, “I really looked at what was important to me and where my allegiances lie. It’s always been with the publishing process and protecting the […]