More adjustments to Borders’ deck, as the company has hired yet another complete outsider for a top position. This time it’s mattress executive Bill Dandy who joins the bookseller as svp, marketing, reporting to cmo Mike Edwards, after a three-year stint as evp of marketing at Mattress Firm. Art Keeney–who has been svp, marketing–will move over to svp, store operations. And Larry Norton, who joined Borders recently as svp, merchandising and distribution, changes his position to svp, merchandising for adult trade and children’s books, leading the book buying teams. Elsewhere, at Harlequin’s parent company Torstar, interim head since May David […]
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Danielle Perez is joining New American Library as executive editor, where she will acquire commercial fiction and nonfiction, starting January 4. Perez has been at Bantam for 11 years. Michelle Brower is joining Folio Literary Management as an agent, after five years with Wendy Sherman Associates. Kristin Lang has joined Audible as director of editorial business development. managing the growing fiction publishing program and developing and acquiring new and innovative audio projects. She was editorial director at Macmillan Audio, overseeing the selection and acquisition of over 100 titles annually. Tangentially, Moby Lives speculates on a number of potential candidates for […]
People: Miner to Crown, and More
Sydny Miner is moving to Crown Publishers as executive editor, starting December 14 and reporting to publisher Tina Constable. She will acquire practical advice, how-to, health, and fitness books, as well as memoirs. Miner was a senior editor at Simon & Schuster, where she worked for 26 years. Brandon Proia joins Mary Anne Thompson Associates as a scout on November 30. He has been an associate editor at Basic. Separately, the company has been appointed US book scout for Ediouro/Agir/Nova Fronteria effective immediately. In the UK, Kate Shaw is leaving Aitken Alexander Associates after nine years to join The Viney […]
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Harper UK publishing director Wayne Brookes is moving to Pan Macmillan as publishing director for fiction, reporting to publisher Jeremy Trevathan.
People: Snicket Follows Rich to LB Children's, and More
Harper Children’s executive editor Susan Rich has joined Little, Brown Children’s in the new position of editor-at-large, where she will edit the new series from Lemony Snicket, the YA novel by Daniel Handler, and other titles. Josh Getzler is moving to Russell & Volkening as an agent. He has been at Writers House for the past three years (prior to which he was coo of the Staten Island Yankees). He anticipates building his list of literary and commercial fiction, with a particular bias toward suspense and crime novels. Mary Jack Wald has announced her retirement at the end of this […]
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Gene Brissie is re-joining James Peter Associates, a literary agency founded in 1971, as president. Gene was most recently Associate Publisher of The Lyons Press. JPA represents authors in nearly all nonfiction categories, including business, finance, reference, health, sports, self-help, history, biography, current events, public policy, and more. Sophia Seidner has left Wiley after three years as an international rights manager. She will continue as a satellite literary agent with Judith Ehrlich Literary Management. She is looking for literary fiction and nonfiction including self-help, narrative nonfiction and memoir with special interest in current events, business and health and science-related topics. […]