Words without Borders has appointed Joshua Mandelbaum as managing director. He has been ad director at Poets & Writers Magazine since 2004. Rohan Kamicheril, a WWB volunteer since 2006, has been appointed editor. He continues to work full time in the sales department at Penguin. Tim Sullivan has joined Basic Books as executive editor, focusing on economics, business, politics, and sociology. He spent six months at Portfolio (where his acquisitions included Mike Huckabee’s memoir Do The Right Thing) after working at the Princeton University Press from 2000 to 2008. Taunton Press has promoted Allison Hollett to the newly created position […]
Personnel
People and Prizes
* At Jossey-Bass, Karen Murphy has been promoted to senior editor for the business trade group. At Other Press, Megan Feulner has been promoted to associate publicist. Gregory Cowles has been promoted to preview editor at the New York Times Book Review. He’s been at TBR since 2004. New Regency “continues to expand and enhance its motion picture division” with new hires that include Michelle Kroes as director of feature and literary development. She will “focus on mining the literary community for film projects as well as acting as the contact for east coast talent.” Kroes has been a scout […]
Publishing People
At Lerner Publishing Group, Andrew Karre has been hired as editorial director of Carolrhoda Books, working out of Minneapolis. He was an acquiring editor for Llewellyn’s YA imprint Flux. In Lerner’s New York office, Carol Burrell is being promoted to editorial director of Graphic Universe, working on graphic novels with an educational appeal. The company says it plans to “enhance the identities of Carolrhoda Books and Graphic Universe by strengthening its program of publishing award-winning picture books, middle-grade fiction, graphic novels, young adult fiction, and unique nonfiction trade titles.” Karen Rice has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade & reference division […]
Personnel News
Pamela Clements has joined Hachette Book Group as associate publisher of marketing for Center Street and Faith Words, focusing on publicity and promotions. She spent 16 years at Thomas Nelson in several executive roles, most recently as publisher of the general interest & lifestyle division (formerly Rutledge Hill Press). At Pippin Properties, Samantha Cosentino has been promoted to rights associate after a year and a half with the literary agency as an assistant. She will be the point person for audio, video, stage adaptation, and foreign rights. Jessica Krakoski joins Basic Books today as a publicist. She has been an […]
Robert Giroux, Publisher, Dies at 94
The former publisher died in his sleep earlier today. The NYT writes: “If the flamboyant Roger Straus presented the public face of Farrar, Straus, Mr. Giroux, as editor-in-chief, was its quiet mover, working behind the scenes to shape its list of books and establishing himself as the gold standard of literary taste. The publisher Charles Scribner Jr., in his memoir, In the Company of Writers: A Life in Publishing (1991), wrote, ‘Giroux is a great man of letters, a great editor, and a great publisher.'”NYT
Sedita to Run Grossett and PSS; Ford Leaves HBG; New Boomsbury Line; More Personnel and Distribution News
Francesco Sedita has been named vp, publisher of Grosset & Dunlap and Price, Stern Sloan, reporting to Penguin Children’s president Don Weisberg and starting September 29. Most recently he was executive creative director at Scholastic, where he worked for the past seven years. Weisberg says, “Francesco’s varied background in creative marketing, school book clubs, in addition to his involvement with the campaigns for Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Brian Selznick’s award-wining The Invention of Hugo Cabret, makes him the perfect fit. For Grosset and PSS, I was searching for someone who is totally immersed in the trends of […]