At Random House, Cyrus Kheradi will become svp, director of international sales & marketing, reporting to Madeline McIntosh, starting March 8. He has been vp, group director of international sales at Simon & Schuster. McIntosh writes in a memo, “the international channel will be increasingly critical to Random House as we seek new markets for growth, and so I am very much looking forward to having someone with Cyrus’s deep experience and stellar global reputation lead us forward. Pam Roman has been named vp, director of sales, special markets, reporting to svp, children’s sales special markets and proprietary publishing Joan […]
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Rebecca Sears has joined Oxford University Pressas editor for the Grove Art/Oxford Art Online program. She was formerly at Art on Paper magazine, and the Yossi Milo Gallery in New York. Macmillan president Brian Napack has joined the board of LibreDigital. Canadian book publishing pioneer Georges Laberge passed away on Saturday, 78, after a long battle with cancer. He developed the Garneau bookstores, a network of French language bookstores in Canada, created the first National Book Week, and acquired the distribution company that became Diffulivre, which then founded the publishing house Ãditions du Trécarré. Laberge obit Amazing People Club, available […]
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Disney Book Group publisher Jonathan Yaged is leaving the company for the plum job of chief operating officer of HouseParty.com, a company that organizes modern-day Tupperware parties, PW reports. Aly Mostel has joined Rodale Books as associate director of communications. She was publicity manager at Time magazine for the past two years. Houghon Mifflin Harcourt’s 2010 Best American writing series will feature guest editors including Richard Russo (short stories), Neil Gaiman (comics); Lee Child (mystery stories); and Bill Buford (travel writing).EW Simon & Schuster is working with GetGlue to offer their authors an easy-to-create widget that display’s their entire backlist […]
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At Yale University Press, Chris Rogers has been named editorial director, effective immediately. He joined Yale University Press in 2005 as executive editor for history and current affairs, after serving as publisher of the higher education group at Oxford University Press. At HarperCollins, Kyran Cassidy has been promoted to vp, associate general counsel, reporting to Chris Goff. He has been with the company for 10 years, and “continues to play an essential role assisting in the implementation of the company’s digital publishing strategies.” Reported over the weekend, author Dick Francis died at his home on Grand Cayman at 89. “Buckingham […]
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Kelly Bowen will join Algonquin as senior publicist on February 24. She has bee a publicist at Simon and Schuster. YA author and agent Mandy Hubbard has joined the D4EO Literary Agency where she will concentrate on YA and middle-grade fiction. on. Simon & Schuster has relaunched their trade web site, www.simonandschuster.biz. It includes a blog for booksellers from their marketing staff and tools for authors to enter customized information about themselves and blog posts that appear on their consumer web site. It also provides handy access to company’s own digital catalog–where we spotted former Bear Stearns ceo Ace Greenberg’s […]
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Don Fehr joins Trident Media Group as a literary agent. Most recently he was editorial director at Kaplan Publishing. Agency chairman Robert Gottlieb calls it “a wonderful opportunity to combine his extraordinary experiences in publishing, his unique relationships with authors, and his ability to create new business opportunities.” At Free Press, Leah Miller has been promoted to associate editor, reporting to editor-in-chief Dominick Anfuso and continuing to work with Dominick on his books as well as those of other editors, while also acquiring for her own list. At PublicAffairs, Tessa Shanks has been promoted to publicity manager. At Harlequin, executive […]