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 […]
Personnel
People, Etc.
Correcting the rundown of the reporting lines at the new Ballantine Bantam Dell, editorial directors Linda Marrow and Kate Miciak report to publisher Libby McGuire. All other editors will report to new editor-in-chief Jennifer Hershey, who also reports to McGuire. At Shambhala Publications, Sara Bercholz has been promoted to executive vice president and will also become the family owner representative of the independent publisher. In addition, partial ownership will be transferred to Sara and brother Ivan Bercholz. Founder Samuel Bercholz will continue to serve as chairman. She comments: “I’m so pleased to be taking on this position–to continue the tradition […]
Ballantine and Bantam Dell Come Together Under McGuire
Today Random House took the next step set in motion from the companywide reorganization in late 2008, consolidating the Ballantine and Bantam Dell lines into a new Ballantine Bantam Dell group. Libby McGuire will run the merged division as svp, publisher, and Bantam Dell evp, publisher and editor-in-chief Nita Taublib is leaving the company. Random House Publishing Group president Gina Centrello writes to employees “I am saddened that with the organizational changes we are announcing this morning for Ballantine and Bantam Dell” Taublib will “step down.” Calling her a “one-of-a-kind editor and a team-building publisher,” Centrello writes, “she is one […]
Distribution, People, Etc.
Soho Press will move their worldwide distribution–including ebooks–to Random House as of January 1, 2011. They have been distributed by Consortium since 2003 Marcy Posner, formerly agent and foreign rights director at Sterling Lord Literistic, has joined Folio Literary Management as an agent specializing in children’s and young adult as well as women’s fiction, romance and serious and commercial non-fiction. Celeste Fine will continue as the foreign rights director. Lottchen Shivers will join Abrams on April 19 in the new position of executive director of adult marketing and publicity, reporting to vp of sales and marketing Mary Wowk. Shivers will […]
People
The UK’s Felicity Bryan has restructured to form Felicity Bryan Associates, owned by Bryan, Catherine Clarke and Caroline Wood. Clarke will serve as managing director and Wood joins the board as a director, as Bryan chairs the board and continues to work with her authors. Sally Holloway continues at the agency as an associate agent. Pablo Defendini is leaving Tor.com to join Open Road as interactive producer. New members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ main body include authors Marilynne Robinson, Francine Prose, Thomas McGuane and Richard Powers. Hachette Book Group will sell and distribute Marvel’s books to […]
People: Barton to Rise at Oxford, Rich Gets New Beat, and More
Oxford University Press announced a realignment of its three academic publishing divisions–Oxford University Press USA, the UK’s academic division (essentially their adult publishing operation), and Oxford Journals–under the consolidated leadership of current OUP USA president Tim Barton. He took that post recently, after serving as managing director of the UK Academic Division for four years. Communications director Rachel Goode says that they are recruiting for a new position to take care of day-to-day US management under Barton after he makes the transition. The move reflects a more global, platform-neutral strategy across key divisions. Barton comments, “Digital and competitive pressures make […]