At Harper, Tara Weikum has been promoted to editorial director in the Children’s division, continuing to lead the editorial group responsible for developing and publishing single-title teen fiction and tween girls’ fiction. She has been with the company for nine years. Amy Wideman has been promoted to senior editor at becker&mayer! Book Producers. At Penguin Children’s, Kimberly Lauber has been promoted t0 manager of educational marketing. In commemoration of his 60th birthday and 37 years “in the uninterrupted employ of Random House, Inc. and the previous corporate companies now part of it, Bantam Books and Bantam Doubleday Dell,” evp of […]
Personnel
People: Kubek Leaves Borders; NBF to Honor Vidal and Eggers; and More
Anne Kubek–one of the few high-level veterans of the chain to survive the various management changes–is leaving the company. (She joined Borders Group in 1990, and was promoted to her current position of evp of merchandising and marketing in January when new ceo Ron Marshall first took over.) Michael J. Edwards has been named vp, chief merchandising officer “responsible for developing and executing merchandising and marketing strategies to drive sales and profit as Borders works to re-engage with customers as a bookseller for serious readers.” He’ll draw on his previous experience as ceo of Ellington Leather, a Portland, OR-based leather […]
Will Balliett to Take Over from Peter Warner at Thames & Hudson
Illustrated books publisher Thames & Hudson announced that Peter Warner is retiring after 30 years as the company’s president. Current Hyperion editor-in-chief Will Balliett will take over as president and publisher, starting in October. In other personnel news, Caleb Seeling WordServe Literary Group as an agent. He was a senior editor at NavPress. In the UK, the Bookseller reports that Anthony Cheetham will run Atlantic Books’ Corvus imprint. Started by his son Nicolas Cheetham as a crime/thriller line, Corvus will expand to include contract publishing and women’s fiction. Catherine Cobain will join Transworld as editorial director in November, “with special […]
Lots of People News; Quartet to Close Before Starting, as Marion Boyars Closes, Too
Erica Silverman, formerly a Senior VP at William Morris and ICM, has joined Trident Media Group as a literary agent. Adam Korn has joined DeFiore and Company as an agent after a short stint at Vigliano Associates. He had been an editor at Harper, Crown and Random House. Zoe Shacham has joined the Nancy Yost Literary Agency as director of foreign rights, and Natanya Wheeler has joined the company as an agent. Myrsini Stephanides joins the Carol Mann Agency, focusing on pop culture, music, humor, popular science, narrative nonfiction, and memoir, as well as offbeat literary, graphic, and YA fiction. […]
Houghton Parent Will Make Do with No President
Attorney Jeremey Dickens, who joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt parent company Education Media & Publishing Group as president in 2007, has left the company. Since his special focus at the company was mergers and acquisitions along with corporate finance, and they’ve done such a great job in both areas, his position will not be filled.WSJ
People: Blake to Holt, and More
Gillian Blake will join Holt’s adult unit as executive editor on September 21, focusing on “high profile nonfiction acquisitions.” Most recently she had been executive editor at Collins until that unit was reorganized earlier this year. Stacia Decker has joined the Donald Maass Literary Agency as an agent. A former editor at Harcourt and Otto Penzler Books, she is representing mystery, suspense, noir, and crimefiction. Former longtime editor for Word Publishing and Thomas Nelson Laura Kendall died of pneumonia last week in Nashville, Tennessee. Kendall, who was still freelancing, had retired from Nelson in 2005, after two decades of editing […]