Two years after leaving Penguin Press UK to serve as publisher of Profile Books, Helen Conford returns to PRH UK on March 29 to lead the literary fiction and nonfiction teams at the Cornerstone Publishing Group. She will be publisher of Hutchinson Heinemann, a merger of the separate William Heinemann, Hutchinson and Windmill imprints. Publishing director at Little Brown UK and Virago Ailah Ahmed will join the company on May 4 as publishing director of Hutchinson Heinemann, with Charlotte Cray reporting to her. Conford will also oversee #MerkyBooks and Random House Business, which will “undergo a strategic rebrand” to cover […]
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At Grand Central, Wes Miller has been promoted to executive editor, and Seema Mahanian to senior editor, Rachael Kelly and Carmel Shaka each become assistant editor, and Kirsiah McNamara becomes assistant editor and digital & paperback coordinator. Albert Tang becomes vice president, creative director. Andy Dodds has been promoted to publicity director and Kamrun Nesa to senior publicist. Joseph Benincase becomes assistant director, marketing and Morgan Swift associate marketing manager. At Forever, Estelle Hallick has been promoted to associate director, marketing & publicity, and Sam Brody to assistant editor. Robert Messenger will join Simon & Schuster as senior editor, starting March 1, where he will “acquire […]
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Yezanira Venecia has joined Soho Press as assistant editor acquiring for the Soho Crime imprint. She was previously at Skyhorse Publishing. Shannon Fabricant has been promoted to executive editor at Running Press; Britny Brooks to associate editor; and Marissa Raybuck and Rachel Peckman to designer. Kara Thornton has been promoted to assistant director of publicity, Running Press and Black Dog & Leventhal. Adriann Ranta Zurhellen has joined Folio Literary Management as literary agent. She was most recently at YRG Partners and Foundry. At Sourcebooks, Katia Herrara has been promoted to senior manager of ecommerce and Morgan Vogt to online marketing […]
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At Little, Brown, Lena Little has been promoted to director of publicity; Katharine Myers to senior director of publicity; Pam Brown to executive director of marketing; Juliana Horbachevsky to associate director of publicity, Spark and Voracious; and Sareena Kamath and Elizabeth Gassman both move up to assistant editor. At James Patterson, Denise Roy becomes editorial director; Dan Denning is now marketing associate; and Caitlyn Averett moves up to assistant editor, Jimmy Patterson. Hilary Strong will become ceo of UK and Europe at International Literary Properties, expanding her former UK role. Tanusri Prasanna is joining DeFiore and Company as an agent. […]
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Christopher Hohns has joined DK as vp, commercial finance, for North America. He was previously co-chief transformation lead at Arvato Supply Chain Solutions, part of the Bertelsmann Group. Stina Andersson has been named the new ceo of Bonnier Group, the parent company of Bonnier Books UK, effective September 1. She is currently the chief operating officer at trade and service businesses giant Axel Johnson. Jennifer Ung has joined Quill Tree Books as executive editor. She was at Simon & Schuster Children’s. Also at Harper Children’s, David Curtis has been promoted to design manager. Emily Greenhouse has been named editor of The […]
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At Chronicle Books, Kathleen Miller has been promoted to sales manager, specialty. Emily Malter becomes associate sales manager, specialty. Kait Feldman has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as senior editor, specializing in picture books and select graphic novels. She was previously with Scholastic. Jacob Surpin has been promoted to senior editor/associate publisher at Parallax Press. Anne Tibbets has joined Donald Maass Literary Agency as a literary agent. She was at D4EO Literary Agency.