Michael Campbell joins becker&mayer! in the new position of vp, sales, marketing & new business development. He has previously been director of sales and marketing at three Pacific Northwest publishers: Martingale, Timber Press, and most recently Graphic Arts. Ryan Kelly joins the company as international sales associate (he worked in specialty retail sales for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Amy Levenson has been promoted to group manager, international sales. Debbie Harmsen joins BenBella Books as editor-in-chief of the general nonfiction line. She has worked for magazines, newspapers and book publishers, most recently editing travel guides at Random House. HCI Books has […]
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At Clarkson Potter, Aliza Fogelson has been promoted to senior editor, after five years there, and Angelin Borsics has been promoted to assistant editor, both still reporting to Doris Cooper. Ashley Phillips has been promoted to assistant editor, continuing to report to Rica Allannic and Rosy Ngo. In the Knopf and Crown editorial department at Random House Children’s Books, Michele Burke has been promoted to editor and Allison Wortche has been promoted to associate editor. Former longtime editor of Travel & Leisure Golf and a founding editor of Men’s Journal, John Atwood is joining Rodale Books an executive editor, reporting […]
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House of Anansi Press publisher since 2005 Lynn Henry is moving to Doubleday Canada as publishing director, starting March 1. She will acquire her own list, and senior editors Amy Black, Nina Pronovost and Tim Rostron will report to her. At Random House, under editorial director Jennifer Hershey, Jessica Waters, Courtney Moran, Courtney Turco and Clare Swanson to have all been promoted and are now assistant editors. Kathleen Tucker will retire as editor-in-chief at Albert Whitman & Company on April 30. A search for a replacement is underway. UK consumer research organization Book Marketing (BML) has been bought by Bowker, […]
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Howard W. Reeves, publisher of Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books, will become editor-at-large of the company. Following Brendan Deneen’s departure, FinePrint Literary Management has hired Pouya Shahbazian as a literary manager/producer, specializing in book-to-film and TV deals for clients and also running FinePrint Productions, producing and packaging film and television projects. He co-founded ManDown Pictures & Management in 2007 after working at the Broder-Webb-Chervin-Silbermann Agency. CEO of Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise (and before that chief operating officer at Yahoo) Daniel Rosensweig has joined online textbook rental company Chegg.com as president and ceo. At Publishing Technology, Douglas Wright […]
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Robin Dennis is joining Oneworld Publications as Oneworld as a senior commissioning editor for popular science, social science, psychology, and current affairs. Previously, she was a senior editor at Times Books. Martha Guzman has joined the Maria Carvainis Agency as the contract/subsidiary rights manager. She previously worked as associate manager, domestic rights at Random House. Caroline Hardman has moved to the Christopher Little Literary Agency as an agent. She was at The Marsh Agency for six years. William Preston joins Sourcebooks in the new position of senior account executive – mass market and new business development. He has previously served […]
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Marysue Rucci will move to Putnam on March 15 as editorial director where she will “build her own roster of authors and help the Putnam imprint acquire and develop new bestselling franchises both in fiction and nonfiction.” Rucci will report to president Ivan Held (and editor-in-chief Neil Nyren, Amy Einhorn and Marian Wood will also continue to report to Held). Rucci has been executive editor at Simon & Schuster, where she has worked for 13 years. Brendan Deneen has joined Thomas Dunne Books as an editor. He was an agent at FinePrint Literary. Nicole Reardon has been promoted to associate […]