David Falk will join Touchstone Fireside as associate publisher on July 15, reporting to Stacy Creamer. Falk has over twenty years of publishing experience, most recently as associate publisher, director of sales and marketing at the Overlook Press. Margaret Halton is returning to the agency side of the business after work on an interim basis as adult rights director for Pan Macmillan. She is joining Rogers, Coleridge and White part-time, providing maternity cover for Laurence Laluyaux, the Bookseller reports. Previously Halton was foreign rights director at ICM’s UK office. Stephen Pawley has retired from Evans Publishing after 25 years as […]
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Riccardo Cavellero is leaving Random House’s Spanish-language joint venture Random House Mondadori after eights years as ceo at the end of this year. Next January he will become general manager of Mondadori’s trade-book business worldwide, based in Milan. Markus Dohle and Mondadori ceo Maurizio Costa write that “we are committed to appointing a new ceo who will build upon our strengths as print-book publishers and also will lead us to become the No. 1 Spanish-language digital-book publisher. Kate Travers has joined powerHouse Books as marketing director. Most recently she was strategic marketing director at the Literary Ventures Fund and marketing […]
People: Weisbach Gets Three New Associates
Rob Weisbach Creative Management announced a relationship with three new senior associates, Erin Cox, David Groff, and Jake Bauman, who are becoming part of the company’s “virtual team.” (They work collaboratively–“operating independently but in collaboration”–though not from the same physical office space.) Cox will represent authors, offer publicity expertise, and provide publicity and promotion services for outside clients, and work with corporate clients including Conde Nast Digital and the Frankfurt Book Fair. She was most recently book publishing director at the New Yorker. Independent editor Groff will develop a client list and provide editorial guidance, while offering editorial services to […]
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Stephanie MacLean has been promoted to literary agent at Trident Media Group, where she started in 2007 as Dan Strone’s assistant. She is specializing in romance, women’s fiction and YA. Dan Crissman has joined Hill & Wang, an imprint of FSG, as assistant editor. He was most recently at Wiley. Philomel Books editor at large Patricia Gauch will leave the company on September 30 to return to full-time writing and lecturing. She joined the imprint as editor-in-chief in 1985, and has edited three Caldecott winners in her career. Maria Gagliano has been promoted to editor for Perigee and Prentice Hall […]
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Trena Keating, who was an agent at Endeavor since last September (and editor-in-chief at Dutton prior to that) has established her own agency, Keating Literary. Peter Beren has been appointed acquisitions scout for Running Press, reporting to publisher Christopher Navratil. He will be looking for “high profile and breakout properties.” Globe Pequot Press president and publisher since 2006 Scott Watrous has resigned, PW reports. COO Jim Joseph has taken over on an interim basis. Todd Berman will join Random House Publisher Services in July 6 as director, client development. He was at Harvard Business Press, most recently as director of […]
People: BN.com Names New Executive, and More
Jamie Iannone will serve as evp, shopping for Barnes & Noble.com & Barnes & Noble Digital, “responsible for meeting the buying needs, and shaping the shopping decisions, of visitors to Barnes & Noble.com. He reports to BN.com president William Lynch. Iannone was at eBay, where most recently he was vp of global search. Mary Faria is joining Simon & Schuster as director of mass merchandise/dsrm, children’s sales, reporting to Mary Marotta. Faria has held various sales positions at Harper Collins, Abrams and Little Brown. Also at S&S Children’s, Katherine Devendorf has been promoted to associate managing editor. Random House UK […]