At Pocket Books, Jaime Costas has been promoted to associate editor. William Safire, the NYT’s “oracle of language,” died Sunday at 79 of pancreatic cancer.NYT
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Steve Rubin Leaves Random House
Conspicuously absent–and oddly unthanked and unmentioned–at last week’s Knopf Doubleday party for Dan Brown, Random House evp and publisher-at-large Steve Rubin is leaving the company. He said in a brief announcement: “I leave Random House after 25 years with a great sense of accomplishment and pride, as well as a bit of sadness. It has been a tremendous ride. I have had the privilege of publishing and working closely with some of the greatest authors in the world. There are too many to name, but I must mention John Grisham, Dan Brown, Pat Conroy, Bill Moyers, Bill O’Reilly and Tina […]
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John Wicker has decided to leave his position as evp of Klopotek North America and restart his consulting business, and he will continue to consult for Klopotek. Over the past four years, Klopotek’s revenue in this region grew tenfold. Karen Tiesling will take over Wicker’s responsibilities as evp sales of Klopotek North America (where she is also evp of product development). She joined the company when Klopotek acquired Global Turnkey Systems in 2006. Amy King will join Rodale Books as executive director, art & design on October 5, reporting to Karen Rinaldi. She has been creative director for Bloomsbury USA. […]
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Boston Globe books editor for the past seven years Jim Concannon is leaving the paper to work as news editor at Harvard’s public affairs office.Phoenix In the UK, publishing director at Chatto & Windus for the past 12 years Alison Samuel announced that she will retire at the end of the year. Editorial director Clara Farmer will move up to publishing director in January. Samuel says in the announcement: “I wanted to go out on a high. How could I possibly better the last 18 months in which Rose Tremain won the Orange Prize, Alice Munro was awarded the Man […]
People: Coyne's New Agency, and More
Former Endeavor agent (and Rugged Land publisher before that) Shawn Coyne has established his own firm, Genre Management, “a boutique agency with a select number of clients.” Coyne says that all of his signed clients from the former Endeavor have followed him to his new agency, including golf commentator and personality David Feherty, and his new clients include Alexis Stewart and her partner Jennifer Hutt Koppelman (for a humorous women’s advice books), and Valerie Mendes (director Sam Mendes’ mother and acclaimed YA Novelist in the UK doing her first adult novel). Today’s deals at PM also record his sale of […]
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Niki Papadopoulos has been promoted to associate editor at Public Affairs, where she will acquire titles across the list. At HarperCollins, Tara Feehan has moved over to become business manager, technology and operations. She was in the corporate finance department for seven years. Yesterday we undercounted Stuart Applebaum‘s birthday bequests: the gift was $60,000 each to Everybody Wins! and First Book.