At McClelland & Stewart, Anita Chong has been promoted to the new role of executive editor. Joe Lee has been promoted to associate editor. Emma Holmes has joined Chronicle Books as head of brand, Ridley’s Games. She was previously at Wild + Wolf. Distribution Peachtree Publishing will move their sales and distribution to Penguin Random House Publisher Services a year from now, starting May 1, 2022. PRH already distributes Holiday House and Pixel+Ink, which like Peachtree are owned by Trustbridge. Peachtree current handles their own sales and distribution. Finance Primarily on the strength of the expected proceeds from the $349 […]
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Kathryn Deaton has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Macmillan Children’s. Miranda Paul has been promoted to agent at Erin Murphy Literary Agency. At Westwood Creative Artists, Bridgette Kam is moving from the rights department to become a literary associate, working with Jackie Kaiser and Hilary McMahon. Caroline Vassallo has been promoted to international rights associate and film/tv associate. Briar Jones has joined the company as office manager. Awards PEN America announced its 2021 award winners in a ceremony on Thursday evening. Ross Gay’s Be Holding won the $75,000 PEN/Jean Stein Book Award; Asako Serizawa‘s Inheritors was awarded the PEN […]
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Traci Lester has joined the Center for Fiction as executive director, succeeding interim executive director Michael Roberts who took over last June after the retirement of Noreen Tomassi. Lester was most recently executive director of the National Dance Institute. Board chair Erroll McDonald said in the announcement, “Ms. Lester is a proven leader with an extensive background in education and the arts. She brings more than 25 years’ experience in the nonprofit sector with an impressive track record of organizational development and growth. I am confident she will lead The Center with vision, creativity, and managerial skill as we continue […]
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Ann Marie Wong has joined Holt Children’s as editorial director. She was previously senior editorial director at Scholastic Book Clubs. Kendall Storey has been promoted to full-time editor at Catapult and Soft Skull Press, moving over from managing foreign rights and contracts for Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press. 2 Seas Agency will represent foreign rights sales for the publisher going forward. Elizabeth Worthy has been promoted to director, event management at Simon & Schuster. At Random House Children’s, Caite Arocho has joined as marketing coordinator. She was previously marketing and design lead at Outside the Lense. Natali Cavanagh has also […]
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Zola Mashariki has joined Audible as head of Audible Studios, overseeing the creation of original content, based in Los Angles and reporting to Rachel Ghiazza. Mashariki was most recently chief content officer for One Community (fka Good Films). Danny Vazquez has been promoted to editor at Astra House. Gracie Elliott has been promoted to associate editor, children’s at Workman. Shirley Ortiz has been promoted to executive director of customer service and fulfillment across all Workman Publishing imprints. At Amazon Publishing, Dennelle Catlett has been promoted to senior PR manager. Ashley Vanicek and Brittany Russell have each been promoted to publicity lead. […]
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Pronoy Sarkar has joined Little, Brown as senior editor, reporting to Judith Clain. Previously, he was an editor at St. Martin’s. Nicole Chung has been promoted to editorial director, digital at Catapult, overseeing Catapult magazine and Catapult’s new digital publication for writers, Don’t Write Alone. Stella Cabot Wilson has been promoted to associate editor of Catapult Magazine and Don’t Write Alone, in addition to her role as Catapult’s writing programs coordinator. Tarah Theoret has been promoted to senior director, community experience at NetGalley. Obituaries South African book publisher Jonathan Ball, 69, died on April 3 of cancer. Longtime literary agent […]