Grand Central’s romance imprint Forever will expand from 36 titles per year to 48 in in 2011. As part of that expansion, Selina McLemore has been promoted to senior editor and will become second-in-command to editorial director Amy Pierpont. Alex Logan has been promoted to associate editor, adding romance authors to her list as well as acquiring more for GCP and 5 Spot. Biographer and director of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library Jean Strouse has won the first BIO Award, to be given each year by the Biographers […]
Personnel
DeFiore Absorbs the Creative Culture
Following the recently-announced departure of co-founder Mary Ann Naples, the remaining staff of the literary agency The Creative Culture has become part of DeFiore and Company. Agents Debra Goldstein, Laura Nolan, Matthew Elblonk and Karen Gerwin are all joining DeFiore in the agency’s Flatiron offices, with company now comprising nine agents. In other personnel news, at the Random House publishing group marketing department, Matt Schwartz has been promoted to the new position of vp, director of digital marketing and strategy, reporting to director of marketing Sanyu Dillon. “In addition to overseeing our digital marketing initiatives, he will also partner in […]
Announcements
David Patterson has left Holt, where he was an editor, and starts today at Foundry Literary + Media as an agent. Irish bookselling chain Hughes & Hughes declared bankruptcy. Ulster Bank appointed David Carson of Deloitte as receiver. The company blamed a variety of factors, from reduced air traffic which suppressed business at its successful airport bookstores to higher rents and the internet.Irish Times Gordon Wood won the American History Book Prize for Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815, which includes the title of American Historian Laureate. Mexican author and guerrilla movement scholar Carlos Montemayor, 62, […]
People
Simon & Schuster Audio vp audio production Sandy Moore is retiring March 1 after 25 years with the division, since it’s founding in 1984. Christopher Lynch writes, “her vision for how an audiobook should sound literally shaped an industry, and her ability to adapt to the changing times has kept S&S as the standard bearer for quality audio production as we move quickly into the digital age.” Another veteran, Elisa Shokoff, will take over Moore’s position. At Shreve Williams Public Relations, Kathleen Schmidt will join the company March 15 as director of publicity and digital media, part of “a strategic […]
Random Names New Digital Execs; Realigns A Few Imprints
Random House CEO Markus Dohle announced internally today “our next steps forward in accelerating the company’s transition to digital, growing our physical book sales, and increasing the efficiency of our customer- author- and publisher-support services.” He also noted some other realignments: The Princeton Review, Sylvan Learning, and Prima Games imprints are becoming part of Random House Children’s Books division, with their leaders reporting to Chip Gibson. Ten Speed’s children’s line Tricycle Books will now operate as an imprint of Knopf Children’s. The digital announcements, which create three separate teams and a “new leadership structure” for Random House Sales, Operations and […]
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Director of Janklow & Nesbit UK Tif Loehnis is leaving the agency after 10 years. She tells the Bookseller: “I have a large and noisy family who need to see more of me than they have done in the last few years and my authors need an agent who can be more available to them.” Editions Robert Laffont in France has named Anne-Louise Associates as their London Scout as of March 1. They will continue to work with Univers Poche as well. In the tidbit department, we picked up these interesting factoids on Twitter from Arsen Kashkashian at the Boulder […]