Colin Fox will join Hyperion as executive editor next week, focusing on investigative journalism, politics, sports, pop culture, business, adventure, humor and general narrative nonfiction. He has been a senior editor at Simon & Schuster. Juliet Grames will join Soho Press as an editor on May 3. Most recently she was an editor at The Overlook Press. Random House announced three corporate appointments today. To fill Nina von Moltke’s old position they have promoted Ranjana Wingender to director, corporate development, continuing to report to ceo Markus Dohle. (She has been director, corporate projects.) Moving up in the same department is […]
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Nigel Roby, managing director of UK trade magazine The Bookseller, has reached an agreement “in principle” to buy the property from Nielsen. The magazine says that “negotiations are expected to conclude at the end of April. All the editorial, sales and marketing and events teams will remain in place.” At Wiley, Steve Miron is being promoted to svp of the STMS (scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly) division, effective May 1. He has been chief operating officer there since the announcement last October that Eric Swanson will retire in October 2010. Until that time, Swanson will serve as svp, government relations […]
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Ayesha Pande has officially announced the change of what’s left of Collins Literary to Ayesha Pande Literary, now with a new mailing address and web site as well. Westwood Creative Artists agent John Pearce is relocating to Victoria, BBC in May 2010, where he will establish a new presence for the agency. Pearce also become a shareholder in the company. Curtis Brown svp Emilie Jacobson, 85, died April 14 “after a short illness.” A brief notice says “a fall memorial service is to be announced.” Emily St. John Mandel remembers Jacobson at The Millions. Kendra Harpster is joining the Random […]
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Wylie O’Sullivan has been promoted to senior editor at Free Press, where she started in 2001 as an editorial assistant. Christina Biamonte will join Sony’s Digital Reading Business Division as new Content Account Manager, eBooks. She has been Subsidiary Rights Manager at Houghton Mifflin. At Sony, she will forge new publisher relationships and act as relationship manager for existing publishing partners. On Tuesday, Zondervan laid off 30 employees as part of a “streamlining [of] our operations,” with a total workforce of 374 people. At the same time, the company is hiring for its digital and multimedia operations, with the Grand […]
Guggenheim Recognizes Harding, Too
Yesterday the Guggenheim named its 180 new fellowships, and Paul Harding makes their list as well. Some of the other authors receiving support also include Adam Begley, Tom Bissell, Ethan Canin, Anthony Doerr, Nell Freudenberger, Philip Gourevitch, Jonathan Harr, Molly Haskell, Colum McCann, Joseph O’Neil, Salvatore Scibona, and Monique Truong.Full fellows
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At Scribner Anna deVries has been promoted to associate editor. Georgia Cool will join Mary Evans Inc. as an agent on April 19. In addition to developing her own list, she will oversee foreign rights for the agency. She has been assistant editor at Farrar, Straus and, prior to that, was at William Morris Endeavor Entertainment. John Rudolph’s position as executive editor at Putnam Children’s was eliminated with the arrival of Jennifer Besser and he was laid off. He can be reached at: jrwr123@yahoo.com. Though some publishers are having trouble reaching Apple to try to make arrangements to sell directly […]