Agents Jill Marsal and Kevan Lyon have left the Sandra Dijkstra Agency to form the Marsal Lyon Literary Agency. Marsal was at the Dijkstra agency for eight years and practice as an attorney representing authors prior to that. Lyon spent four years at Dijkstra and worked in the wholesale and distribution side of the publishing business for over 17 years before becoming an agent. Well-known indie publishing spark plug Richard Nash is leaving Counterpoint, where he is currently executive editor, as well as editorial director of Soft Skull Press, on March 10. CEO Charlie Winton indicates the company will maintain […]
Personnel
People and Awards
Marcy Goot joins Kaplan Publishing as executive director of marketing. Most recently she was vp of marketing for National Lampoon, after working for multiple book publishers. Also at Kaplan, Don Fehr has been promoted to editorial director, trade, and Ron Sharpe has been promoted to executive director of production and manufacturing. At ESPN Books, Richard (R. D.) Rosen has been hired as senior editor. An Edgar Award-winning author of several mysteries starring a major league baseball player-turned-detective, he was most recently a senior editor at Workman Publishing. Thomas Nelson’s Dale Wilstermann will move over to running the nonfiction trade group […]
People
At Faber, Hannah Griffiths, formerly Head of Paperback Publishing, has been appointed Director of Paperback Publishing, and Sarah Savitt, formerly Paperbacks Manager, has been promoted to Editor. Phillip Wagner has been appointed the new CEO of BCA effective immediately, replacing George Saul, who left the company last week. Most recently Wagner worked with Aurelius, which bought BCA at the end of 2008. Sudanese novelist Tayeb Salih, best known for his 1966 novel Season of Migration to the North, died in London Wednesday aged around 80.Reuters Bram Cavin, a longtime book editor with Macmillan, Doubleday and Prentice-Hall, died on February 14 […]
People
Becky Cole has joined Plume books as a senior editor. She was formerly at Broadway Books for over ten years. Former Golden Books editorial director Sharon Shavers Gayle, has joined Mary Jack Wald Associates as an agent, effective immediately. Among her first clients are Denise Lewis Patrick, Gregg Loomis, and John Peel. At Sterling, Anne Rogers has been promoted to director, special markets; Ron Davis has been promoted to vp, special & international sales, digital & gift; and Kate Rados is now director, digital markets. Alex Hippisley-Cox is to oversee all UK media relations and communications for the 2009 Frankfurt […]
What Steve Rubin Is Doing
Steve Rubin’s new role at Random House, Inc. has been officially announced: his title is evp and publisher at large, reporting to ceo Markus Dohle. He will acquire books for (potentially) any and all imprints in Random House “worldwide in collaboration with our publishers in North America and overseas.” In particular, he will retain a role in acquiring future projects by such authors as John Grisham and Pat Conroy. Plus: “He will serve as a new-business advocate with the publishers. Steve will act as an international Random House publishing liaison to maximize the opportunities and collaboration among U.S. publishers and […]
Cheetham Quits Quercus
Non-executive chairman of Quercus Publishing Anthony Cheetham has stepped down, and director David Potter is taking over his post as interim chairman. Cheetham tells the Bookseller “Since assuming a non-executive position, I have felt less comfortable with my role in the company and with some of the key decisions adopted by management.” The company’s ability to continue its rapid expansion ran up squarely against the credit squeeze. “I felt standing still was not the wisest option,” Cheetham says. Co-founder Mark Smith says “We’re in the middle of a deep recession – we need to step back a little on our […]