Baker & Taylor is moving its wholesale club book division, Baker & Taylor Marketing Services, to its distribution center in Indianapolis from the one in Woodland, CA, effective May 15. At Piatkus, Tim Whiting has been appointed publishing director of non-fiction, reporting to Antonia Hodgson. He will still continue his role as publishing director for Little, Brown non-fiction, reporting to Richard Beswick. Bob McLaughlin is retiring from Fujii Associates, effective April 1. Before joining Fujii, he worked at Ward Parkway Bookshop, Wybel Marketing and Heinecken and Associates. Linden Publishing, which primarily publishes in the fields of woodworking and California regional […]
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People and Announcements
At The Overlook Press, Juliet Grames and Aaron Schlechter have both been promoted to Editor. Sara Goodman has been promoted to Associate Editor at St. Martin’s Press. Douglas & MacIntyre have announced a number of personnel changes: Chris Labonté has been promoted to Assistant Publisher and Acquiring Editor, Fiction; Richard Nadeau has been promoted to National Sales Director; Emiko Morita has been promoted to Marketing Director; Jennifer Gauthier has been promoted to Sales Coordinator, North America, and Leigh Wall joins the company as Executive Assistant, taking over Labonté’s former duties as Assistant to the Publisher. Egyptian writer and scholar Youssef […]
People
Rebecca Gradinger has left Janklow & Nesbit Associates and launched Finchley Road Literary, a boutique agency specializing in literary fiction, up-market commercial fiction, narrative non-fiction, memoir, humor and pop culture. (She has also worked as a scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associates and a lawyer practicing media and intellectual property law at Frankfurt Garbus Kurnit Klein & Selz). Kevin Howell has been named associate marketing manager for Tarcher/Penguin, reporting to Brianna Yashimita. He was previously bookselling and audiobook review editor at Publishers Weekly. Shelf Awareness reports on Saturday’s memorial service for Baker & Taylor senior VP of merchandising Jean Smercz, […]
Books-A-Million CEO Quits
Sandra Cochran notified Books-A-Million that she has resigned from her positions as president and ceo effective March 11 “in order to accept an executive position with another company.” (In April she will become cfo of Cracker Barrel.)The statement says “Cochran’s resignation was voluntary and did not result from any disagreement with the company or its board.” Executive chairman of the board Clyde Anderson has taken over as ceo.
Simonoff Moves to WMA, and More People News
Agent Eric Simonoff is leaving Janklow & Nesbit after 18 years to join William Morris. He will take all of his clients with him. Professor of philosophy at Princeton and novelist Kwame Anthony Appiah is expected to take over from Francine Prose as president of the PEN American center. Nick Trautwein will join The Penguin Press as editor on April 6, moving over from Bloomsbury. Jeanne Glasser has joined FT Press and Wharton School Publishing as executive editor. Most recently, she was editorial director, finance, for McGraw-Hill’s Professional Division. Lindsay Mergens has joined Nelson Literary Agency as marketing director, based […]
Wilson Takes New Post at Headline As Neild Prepares to Leave
Kate Wilson, who left her position as managing director of Scholastic UK without noting her next step, is taking on the newly-created post of chief executive of the Headline Publishing Group within Hachette UK. Wilson joins the company on May 5 and will report to managing director of Headline and chief executive of Hodder & Stoughton and John Murray Martin Neild–but only until Neild relinquishes his full-time job in early 2010 to become a consultant to the company. At that point, Wilson will report directly to Hachette UK ceo Tim Hely Hutchinson and Jamie Hodder-Williams will move up from managing […]