Personnel

Sarah Melnyk has joined St. Martin‘s Minotau as a senior publicist.  She was previously at Harcourt. At Yale University Press, Jean Thomson Black has been promoted to executive editor.  She works in the areas of science, medicine, and technology. Distributor Consortium will offer free freight terms to trade accounts beginning August 1. With this change, accounts will receive the same discount terms when ordering from Perseus Books, Perseus Distribution Services (PDS), Publishers Group West (PGW), or Consortium.

Overlook Press has hired David Falk as director of sales & marketing, reporting directly to publisher Peter Mayer and also “assisting him in numerous sales and publishing related activities.” Most recently he was director of national accounts at Houghton Mifflin, and prior to that he was a buyer at Baker & Taylor and a store manager at Barnes & Noble. Daisy Hutton will join Thomas Nelson as vp of international licensing in September. She has been rights director at Harvard Business Press. Publisher of management research books and journals Emerald Group opened a US subsidiary based in Cambridge, MA in […]

HarperCollins chief operating officer Glenn D’Agnes has “decided to leave the company to pursue other opportunities” after 10 years in that post and 18 years with the company overall. As CEO Brian Murray notes to employees: “During his time here, Glenn has played a critical role in the acquisition and successful integration of several companies into HarperCollins. He has been an integral part of securing and managing our distribution clients, which have become an important part of our business. He has overseen major technology and systems changes, including our ERP project. And, he has helped the company to achieve its […]

Baker & Taylor’s CFO James Melton has decided to leave the company. Baker & Taylor will “immediately begin a search for a successor. Melton has agreed to remain with the company during a transition period.”Release

Answering a summer Friday’s top item of mystery, former Weinstein Books ceo Rob Weisbach explains that his agenting role for Norman Ollestad’s just-announced CRAZY FOR THE STORM was “an opportunity I couldn’t resist to help a fine writer and very decent person” rather than the beginning of a literary agency. “That’s not my next step,” Weisbach said, underscoring, “I’m not choosing a different career path.” Introduced to the author by a mutual friend (former Storyopolis owner Fonda Snyder), Weisbach found the story “superlative, on several levels”–and met with similar reactions from editors and executives at multiple houses. But he’s otherwise […]