Harper UK publishing director Wayne Brookes is moving to Pan Macmillan as publishing director for fiction, reporting to publisher Jeremy Trevathan.
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People: Snicket Follows Rich to LB Children's, and More
Harper Children’s executive editor Susan Rich has joined Little, Brown Children’s in the new position of editor-at-large, where she will edit the new series from Lemony Snicket, the YA novel by Daniel Handler, and other titles. Josh Getzler is moving to Russell & Volkening as an agent. He has been at Writers House for the past three years (prior to which he was coo of the Staten Island Yankees). He anticipates building his list of literary and commercial fiction, with a particular bias toward suspense and crime novels. Mary Jack Wald has announced her retirement at the end of this […]
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Gene Brissie is re-joining James Peter Associates, a literary agency founded in 1971, as president. Gene was most recently Associate Publisher of The Lyons Press. JPA represents authors in nearly all nonfiction categories, including business, finance, reference, health, sports, self-help, history, biography, current events, public policy, and more. Sophia Seidner has left Wiley after three years as an international rights manager. She will continue as a satellite literary agent with Judith Ehrlich Literary Management. She is looking for literary fiction and nonfiction including self-help, narrative nonfiction and memoir with special interest in current events, business and health and science-related topics. […]
Erik Engstrom Takes Over at Reed Elsevier After CEO Ian Smith Quits
Ian Smith has unexpectedly left his post as ceo of Reed Elsevier after just eight months on the job, leaving “by mutual agreement” according to a company statement. Chairman Anthony Habgood says “Ian has had the difficult task of leading Reed Elsevier during unprecedentedly turbulent economic times.” Elsevier’s top executive for the past five years Erik Engstrom, 46, takes over immediately as ceo. In a separate release, the company moved up its six-month trading update to today: “The major professional markets, accounting for the majority of Reed Elsevier’s business, are proving more resilient than most but not immune from late […]
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Stephenie Meyer will make a rare promotional appearance on the Oprah Winfrey Show this Friday. She blogs on why she is “making an exception” from “doing the hermit thing”: “I am so pleased and amazed and thrilled with what Chris Weitz has done with New Moon that I want to talk about it, and to show my support for him.”Meyer blog Gwendolyn Heasley will join Artisans and Artisans as an agent, focusing on young adult. Her own debut YA novel, Confessions of a Teenage Recessionista, was sold to Harper Collins in a two-book deal in July. Vook has hired Peggy […]
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Thomas P. Burke has joined Scholastic as svp, e-commerce, responsible for the operation’s strategic direction and growth, reporting to evp and president of Scholastic Book Clubs and E-Commerce Judy Newman. Burke has been at BN.com for the past five years, overseeing merchandising, online marketing, customer experience, design and editorial content. Philip Gourevitch is leaving the Paris Review–where he has been editor for the past five years–in April, to focus full-time on writing. He says “It has been a great honor — and great fun — to have relaunched this wonderful magazine.” The Sydney Morning Herald has a long profile on […]