Robin Dennis is joining Oneworld Publications as Oneworld as a senior commissioning editor for popular science, social science, psychology, and current affairs. Previously, she was a senior editor at Times Books. Martha Guzman has joined the Maria Carvainis Agency as the contract/subsidiary rights manager. She previously worked as associate manager, domestic rights at Random House. Caroline Hardman has moved to the Christopher Little Literary Agency as an agent. She was at The Marsh Agency for six years. William Preston joins Sourcebooks in the new position of senior account executive – mass market and new business development. He has previously served […]
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People: Rucci to Putnam, and More
Marysue Rucci will move to Putnam on March 15 as editorial director where she will “build her own roster of authors and help the Putnam imprint acquire and develop new bestselling franchises both in fiction and nonfiction.” Rucci will report to president Ivan Held (and editor-in-chief Neil Nyren, Amy Einhorn and Marian Wood will also continue to report to Held). Rucci has been executive editor at Simon & Schuster, where she has worked for 13 years. Brendan Deneen has joined Thomas Dunne Books as an editor. He was an agent at FinePrint Literary. Nicole Reardon has been promoted to associate […]
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Summer Smith has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as publicity manager. She was previously a senior publicist at Putnam and Riverhead. Whitney Peeling is leaving Public Affairs and Jaime Leifer is returning to the company as publicity director from her stint in the pr department at The New Yorker. Lisa Degroff has been promoted to senior marketing manager, hardcover at Penguin Children’s. Esi Sogah has been promoted to associate editor at the Morrow/Avon imprint. In the Morrow-Avon-Eos-Morrow Cookbooks publicity department, Brianne Halverson has been promoted to associate director; Danielle Bartlett has been promoted to senior publicity manager; and Adam Rochkind has […]
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May Wuthrich will join Rob Weisbach Creative Management as a senior associate, developing her own clients as well as contributing to the company’s efforts for their other clients. Wuthrich has worked in film development, scouting, and electronic business initiatives. Barbara Marcus, whose one-year consulting arrangement with Penguin Children’s was already extended for six months longer than planned, will move on at the end of this month. Judy Pray is now a senior editor at Workman’s Artison Books. She was at Clarkson Potter. Michael McKenzie has been promoted to senior publicity director at Ecco. At F+W Media, Tim Langlitz has moved […]
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Dorchester has promoted Leah Hultenschmidt to editorial director, filling the position vacated held by Alicia Condon. In her ten years with the company, Hultenschmidt has directed the publicity and promotions department, has built and overseen the company’s website and has edited the romance and western genres. Kensington has promoted Alex Nicolajsen to digital marketing manager. She was the executive assistant to Steven Zacharius. At William Morrow, Tavia Kowalchuk has been promoted to senior marketing director. Also at Harper, note that the recently-announced Digital support divsion (and digital technology services group) have no effect on Harper Media, their digital publishing group. […]
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More promotions from the Random House publishing group: Junessa Viloria is now an assistant editor at Ballantine; Angela Polidoro is an assistant editor at Bantam; Randall Klein moves up to associate editor at Bantam Dell; and Jessica Sebor is now an assistant editor at Bantam Dell. To clarify yesterday’s report on changes at Harper UK, Lynne Drew will oversee all of the programs within the Harper Fiction division–but not any of the Harper Press fiction lines.