Matthew Lore has resigned as vp, executive editor at Da Capo Press/Da Capo Lifelong Books, in order to explore and pursue new publishing opportunities. Da Capo publisher John Radziewicz noted in a staff memo that Lore “joined the Avalon Publishing Group in 1998 and built Marlowe & Company into a major player in the wellness category…. When the Avalon Publishing Group joined the Perseus Books Group last year, Matthew was instrumental in the transition that made Marlowe a vital part of Lifelong.” Steve Troha has joined Vigliano Associates as an agent, “selectively signing” new clients and working with existing clients. […]
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The LAT reports from the memorial service on the campus of Pomona College for David Foster Wallace. Author Jonathan Franzen recall a conversation from last summer: “Tell me a story about how things will get better,” David Foster Wallace asked. Franzen says, “He was in a terrible and dangerous place as a man and a writer.” The story adds, “Wallace had stopped picking up the phone, Franzen said, his voice cracking, and entered a ‘well of infinite sadness.'” They also note that “Wallace’s students remembered the smiley faces he drew in the margins of their papers. Many commented on how […]
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At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Susan Canavan has been promoted to executive editor in the trade & reference division. Canavan has been at Houghton for 9 years. Former agent at Dupree/Miller and editor at Simon Spotlight Entertainment Michael Broussard has joined iSB New Media as executive vice president. Based in LA, the company calls itself a “multi-media talent platform” that integrates speaking (the parent company’s properties include the International Speakers Bureau), books, licensed products, programming, distribution, and web-centered marketing. Translated, that includes “literary representation of several major personalities.”
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Emma House is leaving the London Book Fair in January after six years to join the UK’s Publishers Association as their international director. House will be the first woman to hold a senior role in the organization. Chief executive Simon Juden says “her appointment gives us the opportunity to refocus the role of international director slightly, as we seek to continue the robust protection of members’ copyrights overseas and domestically, as well as explore and exploit opportunities for market development.”
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Paul Baggaley will fill the long-empty slot of publisher for Picador in the UK, vacated when Andrew Kidd became an agent with Aitken Alexander in the spring. He has been publishing director at Harper UK Perennial. At Harper Children’s, Erica Sussman has been promoted to editor. She has been with the company since 2004. SharedBook has hired Ashley Gordon as vp, business development, focusing on creating relationships with publishing partners to deliver customized and personalized print-on-demand books. She was director of channel development at Lightning Source. Author Solutions has hired Kevin Gregory as coo. Most recently he served in various […]
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At Harper Children’s, Kelly Smith has been hired as senior editor, reporting to Phoebe Yeh. She was an acquisitions editor for Sterling. Additionally, Laura Arnold and Greg Ferguson have been promoted to editor, reporting to Barbara Lalicki. Fran Olson moves over to become children’s books national accounts representative for Books-A-Million, Ingram and Bookazine. Olson has been at Harper since 1986. The New York Center for Independent Publishing (NYCIP) will honor Esther Margolis, founder of Newmarket Press, with the Poor Richard Award, given “to a publisher who has made an outstanding contribution to the field of independent publishing> Megan O’Patry has […]