Rob Weisbach Creative Management announced a relationship with three new senior associates, Erin Cox, David Groff, and Jake Bauman, who are becoming part of the company’s “virtual team.” (They work collaboratively–“operating independently but in collaboration”–though not from the same physical office space.) Cox will represent authors, offer publicity expertise, and provide publicity and promotion services for outside clients, and work with corporate clients including Conde Nast Digital and the Frankfurt Book Fair. She was most recently book publishing director at the New Yorker. Independent editor Groff will develop a client list and provide editorial guidance, while offering editorial services to […]
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Stephanie MacLean has been promoted to literary agent at Trident Media Group, where she started in 2007 as Dan Strone’s assistant. She is specializing in romance, women’s fiction and YA. Dan Crissman has joined Hill & Wang, an imprint of FSG, as assistant editor. He was most recently at Wiley. Philomel Books editor at large Patricia Gauch will leave the company on September 30 to return to full-time writing and lecturing. She joined the imprint as editor-in-chief in 1985, and has edited three Caldecott winners in her career. Maria Gagliano has been promoted to editor for Perigee and Prentice Hall […]
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Trena Keating, who was an agent at Endeavor since last September (and editor-in-chief at Dutton prior to that) has established her own agency, Keating Literary. Peter Beren has been appointed acquisitions scout for Running Press, reporting to publisher Christopher Navratil. He will be looking for “high profile and breakout properties.” Globe Pequot Press president and publisher since 2006 Scott Watrous has resigned, PW reports. COO Jim Joseph has taken over on an interim basis. Todd Berman will join Random House Publisher Services in July 6 as director, client development. He was at Harvard Business Press, most recently as director of […]
People: BN.com Names New Executive, and More
Jamie Iannone will serve as evp, shopping for Barnes & Noble.com & Barnes & Noble Digital, “responsible for meeting the buying needs, and shaping the shopping decisions, of visitors to Barnes & Noble.com. He reports to BN.com president William Lynch. Iannone was at eBay, where most recently he was vp of global search. Mary Faria is joining Simon & Schuster as director of mass merchandise/dsrm, children’s sales, reporting to Mary Marotta. Faria has held various sales positions at Harper Collins, Abrams and Little Brown. Also at S&S Children’s, Katherine Devendorf has been promoted to associate managing editor. Random House UK […]
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In the UK, longtime head of Random UK’s Century Mark Booth has resigned after 21 years at the imprint. He says in the announcement, “I’ve had a wonderfully happy twenty one years, but I think I’ve done as much as a chap can do. I pride myself on being a bit unpredictable and I hope that the plans I am going to reveal shortly will raise a few eyebrows.” Susan Sandon adds “Mark understandably has not yet revealed all of his immediate plans but writing, journalism and other publishing projects will no doubt form part of his portfolio.” Arrow publishing […]
The Galassi Interview
The latest in Jofie Ferrari-Adler’s series of interviews for Poets & Writers is with Farrar, Straus president and publisher Jonathan Galassi, “who got where he is, in part, by being one of the most gentlemanly editors in the business.” Among the things he learned while working at Random House (from 1981 to 1986): “I learned some other lessons that were not so nice. It wasn’t a collegial place. People really didn’t wish each other well, which I wasn’t used to. But looking back on it I think it was a difficult situation that I could have responded to differently. I […]