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.
Personnel
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 […]
People and Announcements
At Random House, Vintage Espanol publishing manager Jaime de Pablos will take over the position of director being vacated by Milena Alberti as she joins the company’s corporate development team. de Pablos will report to Vintage and Anchor publisher Anne Messitte. Milkweed Editions has received underwriting from Amazon.com for the publication Fancy Beasts by Alex Lemon and Extra Indians by Eric Gansworth. OverDrive has launched their first audiobook for Apple devices, which allows library patrons to download audiobooks from participating libraries as well as purchase from retailers. (Library audiobooks expire automatically.) They already have BlackBerry, Android, and Windows Mobile. Penguin […]
People, Etc.
Colin Fox will join Hyperion as executive editor next week, focusing on investigative journalism, politics, sports, pop culture, business, adventure, humor and general narrative nonfiction. He has been a senior editor at Simon & Schuster. Juliet Grames will join Soho Press as an editor on May 3. Most recently she was an editor at The Overlook Press. Random House announced three corporate appointments today. To fill Nina von Moltke’s old position they have promoted Ranjana Wingender to director, corporate development, continuing to report to ceo Markus Dohle. (She has been director, corporate projects.) Moving up in the same department is […]
People, Etc.
Nigel Roby, managing director of UK trade magazine The Bookseller, has reached an agreement “in principle” to buy the property from Nielsen. The magazine says that “negotiations are expected to conclude at the end of April. All the editorial, sales and marketing and events teams will remain in place.” At Wiley, Steve Miron is being promoted to svp of the STMS (scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly) division, effective May 1. He has been chief operating officer there since the announcement last October that Eric Swanson will retire in October 2010. Until that time, Swanson will serve as svp, government relations […]