At Simon & Schuster Children’s Alexandra Penfold has been promoted to editor, and Julia Maguire, Navah Wolfe and Lydia Frost have all moved up to assistant editor, while Kimberly Boyer is now assistant editor of Little Simon and Jessica Echeverria is assistant editor at Simon Spotlight. In other promotions, Catharine Sotzing is now associate marketing manager, education & library; Michael McCartney and Nick Sciacca both moved up to senior designer; and Cara Petrus was promoted to associate art director. Naomi Benaron’s RUNNING THE RIFT won $25,000 Bellwether Prize for Fiction, “the largest monetary prize for unpublished fiction in North America,” […]
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Dan Ehrenhaft has joined Harper Children’s fiction team as director of intellectual property development, developing and commissioning original projects primarily for the teen and tween market in both print as well as emerging digital formats. He was a senior editor at Sourcebooks, where he launched their teen imprint Sourcebooks Fire and acquired for Jabberwocky. Mary Anne Thompson Associates has been appointed the US literary scout for Croatian publisher Znanje. The ABA membership ratified the nominated officers and board members. Michael Tucker and Becky Anderson will serve second one-year terms as president and vce president, respectively. Sarah Bagby of Watermark Books […]
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Lara Lea Allen is joining Barer Literary as foreign rights director. She was sssociate director of foreign rights at Trident Media Group. Barer Literary’s UK rights will continue to be handled by Caspian Dennis at Abner Stein. Marissa Walsh has joined FinePrint Literary Management as a literary agent, focusing on children’s picture books, middle-grade and YA, along with pop culture, humor, narrative non-fiction, and memoir. Most recently she was an editor at Delacorte Press/Random House Children’s Books for seven years. Scott Turow was formally elected president of the Authors Guild, taking over from Roy Blount, who served for four years. […]
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At Random House Children’s, Till Wirth has joined the new media marketing team in the new position of manager, digital content and product development, and Liz Cosulich has been promoted to subsidiary rights associate. In the publicity department Dominique Cimina has been promoted to publicity manager and online media specialist; Meg O’Brien moves up to senior publicist and online media specialist; Casey Lloyd, Emily Pourciau, and Elizabeth Zajac were each promoted to publicist; and Jessica Shoffel has become an associate publicist. At Plume, Mary Pomponio has been promoted to publicity manager. Longtime publishing executive and founder of Limelight Editions Melvyn […]
Random House Discloses Sale of Japanese and Korean Units
Random House revealed quietly in an internal personnel announcement that over the past 10 months the company has retrenched from two pieces of the Peter Olson expansionist years. In September, they discontinued their Japanese joint venture, Random House Kodansha, which began in 2003, and in February they divested their Random House Korea, which they had started as a joint venture with JoongAng and bought full control of four years ago. In both cases, the units were sold to the CEOs and executives who run the companies. Random House Kodansha ceo Yuji Takeda led the buyout of what is now called […]
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Sarah Knight will join the Simon & Schuster adult trade imprint on May 24 as a senior editor, acquiring both fiction and nonfiction. She was most recently an editor at Shaye Areheart Books, will begin her new position on May 24th. At Tor and Forge, Justin Golenbock was promoted from Publicist to Senior Publicist. Goldberg McDuffie Communications announced the promotions of Grace McQuade to managing director; Angela Baggetta Hayes to director of GMC Digital; Megan Underwood Beatie to deputy director of GMC Digital; Kathleen Carter to publicity manager; and Liza Lucas to Senior Publicist. Dennis Hayes joined National Book Network […]