Following last week’s intense gossip among agents that former Simon & Schuster publisher David Rosenthal has been negotiating to set up an imprint at Penguin, Crain’s ran a short item memorializing the rumor. The parties are not commenting.Crain’s At the Simon & Schuster imprint, Michael Szczerban has been promoted to associate editor. Former President George Bush will appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show on November 9, the release date for his book DECISION POINTS. Steven Spielberg is going to direct the film version of Daniel H. Wilson’s forthcoming novel ROBOPOCALYPSE, with photography scheduled to begin in January 2012 for theatrical […]
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Author of Which Witch?, Journey to the River Sea, The Secret of Platform 13 and many other children’s books Eva Ibbotson, 85, died at home on Wednesday.Guardian Harper UK is restructuring their sales divisions and group sales and marketing director (and former Borders UK executive) David Roche will leave at the end of the year. He says his agreement from the beginning was to stay for only two years, the Bookseller reports. His position will be eliminated, and Simon Johnson has been promoted to managing director of commercial, with responsibility for sales and rights, along with strategy, business development, and […]
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Nicole Dewey will join Little, Brown as executive director of publicity, starting November 15 and reporting to vp, marketing director Heather Fain. She has been executive director of publicity at Henry Holt. Director of the University of Texas Press since 1992 Joanna Hitchcock announced that she will retire at the end of February. She said, “I’ve been at the helm for almost a third of the Press’s 60-year existence and it is time for new leadership.” Erzsi Deà k is now scouting for both children’s imprints of La Martinière Groupe in France: Le Seuil Jeunesse and La Martinière Jeunesse. She works […]
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At F+W Media, Kate Rados has been promoted to group marketing director, and both Rados and Kathleen Blackwelder are joining the company’s executive committee. Merriam-Webster has hired Caryl Schivley as vp, chief financial officer/chief administrative officer. She was previously vp, finance for Atlas Copco Construction Tools. The new Danish Hans Christian Andersen literature prize, worth almost $100,000, has gone to JK Rowling. Given to “a writer whose work can be compared to that of Andersen,” it should not be confused with the established Hans Christian Andersen medal, which is often pitched as the Nobel for children’s books.Guardian The AAP’s Young […]
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Ryan Doherty has moved over from Ballantine to Random House Trade Paperbacks as an editor, reporting to Jane von Mehren. And Erika Greber has joined the Random House Publishing Group as assistant marketing manager for Random House, Spiegel & Grau, Dial Press, and The Modern Library. She was a marketing associate at Random House Audio. At Simon & Schuster, Kate Ankofski has been promoted to associate editor. Elsewhere in the company, Meredith Wahl-Jones moves over to the Free Press as a publicist, after working as an associate publicist at Scribner. Samhain Publishing has hired Heather Osborn as editorial director, reporting […]
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ICM has hired Nick Harris from Mosaic (which he joined last November) as co-head of their book-to-film department, alongside the newly-promoted Josie Freedman, who has been at ICM since 2001. Harris was a partner at Rabineau Wachter Sanford Harris, and prior to that worked at AP Watt. Borders has named Scott Henry as their new evp, chief financial officer, effective today, filling the post vacated by Mark Bierley in August. Henry, 45, has been president of business and financial consulting services firm S.D. Henry Strategic Services, after five years as cfo of Las Vegas Sands Corp. Barnes & Noble has […]