The UK’s Felicity Bryan has restructured to form Felicity Bryan Associates, owned by Bryan, Catherine Clarke and Caroline Wood. Clarke will serve as managing director and Wood joins the board as a director, as Bryan chairs the board and continues to work with her authors. Sally Holloway continues at the agency as an associate agent. Pablo Defendini is leaving Tor.com to join Open Road as interactive producer. New members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ main body include authors Marilynne Robinson, Francine Prose, Thomas McGuane and Richard Powers. Hachette Book Group will sell and distribute Marvel‘s books to […]
Personnel
People: Barton to Rise at Oxford, Rich Gets New Beat, and More
Oxford University Press announced a realignment of its three academic publishing divisions–Oxford University Press USA, the UK’s academic division (essentially their adult publishing operation), and Oxford Journals–under the consolidated leadership of current OUP USA president Tim Barton. He took that post recently, after serving as managing director of the UK Academic Division for four years. Communications director Rachel Goode says that they are recruiting for a new position to take care of day-to-day US management under Barton after he makes the transition. The move reflects a more global, platform-neutral strategy across key divisions. Barton comments, “Digital and competitive pressures make […]
People, Etc.
Jeanne Emanuel will join the Perseus Books Group later this month in the new position of vp of special and gift sales, based in the Cambridge, MA office and reporting to Matty Goldberg. She was previously executive director of sales for Adams Media. In promotions at Bloomsbury/Walker/Bloomsbury Press: Benjamin Adams has become a senior editor; Pete Beatty moves up to editor; Margaret Maloney is now an associate editor; Rachel Mannheimer becomes an assistant editor; Carrie Majer has been made a senior publicist; and Jiyeon Dew was promoted to production manager. At Harper, Maya Ziv and Jason Sack have both been […]
People
Jocelyn Schmidt will join Penguin Children’s on April 19 in the new position of director of brand management. She was most recently vp, director of sales at Random House, where she led the mass merchandise sales group.Lia Brown is joining Avalon Books as editor and Jennifer Graham is joining the company as production editor.
People
Sandy Hodgman will manage foreign rights on a part-time basis for LJK Literary Management and The Jud Laghi Agency starting May 1. She has sold foreign rights for HarperCollins and The Robbins Office. Both agencies will continue to work with co-agents in most territories, and to sell rights directly in the UK and Netherlands. On Demand Books has hired Steve Sutton as vp, director of university and library sales and Susie Stroud as vp, director of content acquisition. Most recently Sutton was vp, library services and director of new business development at YBP Library Services and Stroud was national accounts […]
Awards, People and More
The New York Public Library’s Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers has named its new class of fourteen fellows. The list includes fiction writers David Bezmozgis, Maile Chapman, Mary Gaitskill, and Wells Tower; poet Geoffrey Brock; New Yorker staff writer Larissa MacFarquhar; graphic novelist and artist David Sandlin; and Pulitzer-winning author Annette Gordon-Reed. Jo Ann Miller, former editorial director of Basic Books, has formed J.A. Miller Associates to provide ghost writing, editorial collaboration, developmental editing, and author coaching. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Maire Gorman has been promoted to the new position of vp of trade sales […]