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 […]
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Kirsten Neuhaus has started her own agency, Kirsten Neuhaus Literary. She was most recently an agent and foreign rights manager at Vigliano Associates. Following the elimination of the Collins division in the US, now its predecessor in the UK is also being demoted. Harper UK will merge Collins with their Harper Non-fiction books, consolidated under managing director Belinda Budge. Collins publishing director Denise Bates will leave Harper UK in July, and Collins’ head Katie Fulford returns to her previous role as special projects director. Ebury senior publishing director Hannah MacDonald will move over in July to run the Collins imprint, […]
Creamer Takes Over at Touchstone, Gompertz Made Digital Publisher, and More
Broadway editor-in-chief Stacy Creamer will take over as publisher of Touchstone Fireside on May 11, but unlike her predecessor Mark Gompertz, she will report to Free Press publisher Martha Levin instead of ceo Carolyn Reidy. But the two lines “will have independently functioning editorial and publishing staffs,” the company underscores in their announcement. Reidy says, “Stacy is one of the true stars of the publishing world. She is highly regarded for her editorial skill, eclectic taste, and ability to acquire and nurture books that garner both critical acclaim and major bestselling status. In […]