On Simon & Schuster’s distribution side, Frank Nunez has been promoted to vp, business operations, reporting to Joe D’Onofrio. Tuttle Publishing will distribute Shanghai Press and Publishing Development Company’s English-language books about China. At McGraw-Hill Professional’s business group, Stephanie Frerich and Leila Porteous have both joined the unit as editors. Frerich was at Ivan R. Dee; Porteous was at Grand Central. In a completely different 40-under-40 list, HarperCollins director of publicity Tina Andreadis has been named to the Greek America Foundation’s list honoring young leaders. Barefoot Books officially announced the opening of their relocated “flagship” children’s bookstore, now in Concord, […]
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Toby Ernst joins the Random House Publishing Group as domestic rights manager on June 7. She has been subsidiary rights manager at Sterling since 2004. Thomas Nelson is expanding their children’s publshing team: Molly Kempf is joining the unit as editorial director (she was a senior editor at Scholastic); Mackenzie Howard has been promoted to acquisitions editor for children’s books and gift books; and Jennifer Deshler moves over to vp of marketing and publishing process for children’s and gift product. Ullstein Buchverlage has appointed Barbara Tolley & Associates as their exclusive US scout from July 1 for all their imprints: […]
Simon & Schuster Makes Karp's June 14 Start Official
Following last night’s numerous news reports (including our own), S&S has “announced” that Jonathan Karp will take over as evp and publisher of the Simon & Schuster trade imprint on June 14 (the date published by the WSJ last night), reporting to president and ceo Carolyn Reidy. She writes in the release, “Jonathan Karp is one of the most versatile, talented and creative publishers working today. At every stage of his career he has shown a true gift for finding and making bestsellers of quality. Having competed against him to acquire books in which we were keenly interested, and then […]
Karp to Replace Rosenthal At Simon & Schuster Trade
Simon & Schuster is expected to announce tomorrow that publisher of their adult trade imprint since 1997 David Rosenthal is leaving the company. But waiting for the “announcement” is moot since the news has been confirmed to multiple people throughout the day, both inside and outside the company. Rosenthal himself has been informing people, including telling the NYT earlier tonight, “It’s been a great run for 13 years with great books and authors. Every executive reaches an expiration date.” Nonetheless, officially Simon & Schuster has repeatedly declined to confirm the news during the day. Founder of Hachette Book Group’s Twelve […]
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Ron Hogan has left Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade and reference division, where he was director of e-marketing strategy. Adrienne Schultz, most recently an editor at Portfolio, has left Penguin to begin freelance editing. At Dutton, Carrie Swetonic has been promoted to associate marketing director. Del Commune Enterprises is now scouting for Rowohlt Verlag in Germany. Alison Brook is joining Harper New Zealand in the new position of head of publishing, reporting to managing director Tony Fisk. She was publisher, nonfiction at Penguin New Zealand. In the UK, Nick Davies has been promoted to publishing director for nonfiction at Canongate. And […]
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Swedish author Henning Mankell was among those on boats headed to the Gaza strip, and according to Agence France Press he is also one of nine Swedes now in Israeli custody following their attack on the flotilla. The wire service, which has been in touch with Sweden’s foreign ministry, says that the prisoners “have reportedly been given the choice” between deportation and a trial in Israeli court. Mankell had indicated in a statement before setting sail that he “was taking part in the flotilla to show his solidarity towards the Palestinian people.”AFP Rick Warren‘s big fall book THE HOPE YOU […]