Laura Ford will move over to the Ballantine editorial team as Editor, reporting to publisher Libby McGuire. She has been at Random House since 2001, when she began there as an editorial assistant. Ford will continue to edit the books she has acquired for Random House and they will remain on that list. Former Houghton Mifflin publisher Janet Silver is joining Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as an agent and literary director, in their Boston office. In the UK, Peter Robinson is formally merging his eponymous literary agency with Rogers, Coleridge & White (which has been handling foreign rights and other functions […]
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Joy Dallanegra-Sanger will join Macmillan’s recently-formed Children’s Publising Group in the new position of svp, director of marketing, reporting directly to president Dan Farley. The heads of Advertising/Promo, Consumer/Retail, Educational/Institutional, Internet, and Publicity will all report to Dallanegra-Sanger. Most recently, she was vp, director of field sales at Random House Children’s. Penguin Group keeps hiring editors who were laid off by other houses, as Plume announces that former longtime Simon & Schuster editor Denise Roy starts there this week as senior editor. She will also acquire hardcovers for Dutton and Hudson Street Press. Steven Sussman has joined Dover as director […]
People and Announcements: Harriot, Howard Books, Pimsleur, Publishing Technology and B&T Digital
Michael Harriot has joined Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as an agent. He was at Vigliano Associates for the past nine years, representing his own clients as well as co-agenting deals with David Vigliano. At Simon & Schuster Children’s Sy Sumg has joined the subsidiary rights group as assistant manager. Simon & Schuster’s Howard Books will relocate from W. Monroe, Louisiana to Nashville, TN, the “epicenter of Christian publishing,” on May 1. The relaunch of the web site for S&S’s Pimsleur audio offers free half-hour lessons and a test of other “digital premiums.” The unit is also adding instruction in Dari […]
Quill & Quire Editor Derek Weiler, 40, Dies Suddenly
The editor of the Canadian book trade magazine died Sunday. The magazine’s site has a short posting, amplified by almost 100 comments. The cause of death was not indicated, but reportedly Weiler was “in poor health for several years.”Toronto Star In other obituaries, Judith Krug, 69, died Saturday of cancer. She started Banned Books Week in 1982, and was director of the American Library Association’s Office for Intellectual Freedom since it was founded in 1967.
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Sarah Reidy joins Pocket as associate director of publicity this week, moving over from Soho Press (where she was director for the past two years). Justin Hargett has rejoined Soho as the new director of publicity, after working at Ohio University Press, Other Press, and Oxford University Press. At the Random House Publishing Group, director of marketing for the Bantam/Dell imprints Carolyn Schwartz will now also oversee marketing for Ballantine as well. Spain’s most prolific novelist, Corin Tellado, 81, died on Saturday. She published over 4,000 books during her lifetime and is said to have sold over 400 million copies.
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John Mendelson will join Candlewick Press in mid-May as svp, sales and digital Initiatives. He is currently director of trade sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he has worked for more than a decade in a variety of sales positions. At Random House UK’s Harvill Secker, among the many lines affected by recent layoffs, Liz Foley moves over from Vintage UK to serve as publishing director, reporting to publisher Dan Franklin, as Geoff Mulligan leaves the post but continues to edit his authors on a freelance basis, the Bookseller reports. Stuart Williams has been promoted to editorial director; and Rebecca […]