Sheila Keenan joins Abrams tomorrow as senior editor, working on the Abrams ComicArts list, reporting to executive editor Charles Kochman. Most recently she was at Scholastic, where she helped launch their Graphix comics imprint. At the Penguin Group, Allison McLean has been promoted to associate director of publicity for Portfolio and Sentinel. She joined Portfolio in 2002, before the line formally launched. At Little, Brown Children’s, Lauren Hodge has been promoted to assistant editor. Bertelsmann has put Christa Gomez on the company’s supervisory board as employee representative. Aside from two women from the controlling Mohn family, Gomez is the only […]
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People and More
Publishing veterans Gretchen Koss and Meghan Walker recently formed themarketing and publicity firm Tandem Literary. They had been colleaguesat Random House until last December at Spiegel & Grau, where Koss wasdirector of publicity and Walker was director of marketing. The newcompany “will work collaboratively to tailor a campaign that complementsthe publisher’s plans and enhances a book’s visibility across a wide variety of platforms.” Author of THE WOMEN’S ROOM Marilyn French, 79, died Saturday of heart failure.NYT obit Cambridge University Press has reduced their plan to cut approximately165 jobs in the UK down to 58 layoffs. Another 25 people have left […]
People and Awards
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade and reference division, Josh Harwood has been promoted to national accounts director, based in New York, and Beth Ineson moves up to director of field sales & distribution clients (still based in Boston.) As has been expected, Carol Ann Duffy was named the UK’s poet laureate, the first woman to hold the position in 341 years. Along with a small stiped, the honor comes with a “butt of sack” — 600 bottles of sherry to stoke the muse — which the Guardian says she asked for upfront after hearing the previous laureate Andrew Motion never […]
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At Borders, longtime executive (most recently vp, Paperchase operations) Michael Oprins has been named to the new position of vp, merchandising for non-book products. He will lead buying teams in non-book categories including: music, DVD, bargain, digital, newsstand, calendars, games, trend gifts and candy. At Scholastic, David Levithan has been promoted to, vp, editorial director for Scholastic Trade Publishing. He had been executive editorial director for Scholastic Press Fiction, multimedia publishing, and PUSH (which he founded). In further adjustments at Harper UK, the Perennial imprint (launched there in 2003) will be phased out. Paperbacks will keep the same colophon as […]
More Things to Read
It’s a light news day, but a number of interesting publishing folks have been rolled out blogs in recent days, so if you’re looking for more things to read, consider: Oxford University Press digital publishing and business development guru Evan Schnittman has his own blog now (he used to contribute more occasionally to the OUP group blog), Black Plastic Glasses. Brian O’Leary at Magellan Media Partners (and sometime consulting partner with Mike Shatzkin at the Idea Logical Company) is posting on issues related to both books and magazines. Charlotte Abbott and Kat Meyer are blogging “for those who read & […]
People and Notes
Liza Pulitzer Voges has opened the literary agency Eden Street representing authors and illustrators of children’s books. She was previously at Kirchoff Wohlberg for 25 years where she created and managed their literary department. At Dystel & Goderich Literary Management, Jim McCarthy, has been promoted to senior agent. Chasya Milgrom, who has been with the agency for over three years, has been promoted to royalties manager and agent. The Observer says it has been resolved that the head of Endeavor’s book department Richard Abate will not stay on as part of the merged William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. They say “the […]