Maria Guarnaschelli, 79, “the editor behind the most highly acclaimed and successful cookbooks of our time, including the monumental 1997 revision of The Joy of Cooking and the new classic The Food Lab,” died February 6 of complications of heart disease. During her four-decade book publishing career, most recently at Norton from 2000 to 2017, she introduced and edited books by culinary visionaries including J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, Judy Rodgers, Rick Bayless, Maricel Presilla, Jim Lahey, Stella Parks, Dave Arnold, and Michael Ruhlman and Brian Polcyn, among many others. She also acquired and edited works by authors including David Quammen, Steven […]
Personnel
People: Bloomsbury USA Realigns Trade Leadership
Bloomsbury continues to reorganize its executive ranks, following the hiring of Ian Hudson as managing director of the consumer publishing division earlier this year and the departure of Emma Hopkin at the end of 2020. In a restructuring of the consumer division at Bloomsbury USA, publishing director Cindy Loh and two others will leave at the end of February. Loh has overseen both adult and children’s publishing since late 2016. Nancy Miller, Liese Mayer, and Mary Kate Castellani will report to executive director and coo Adrienne Vaughan, who will take on the duties of publishing director. Vaughan says in the announcement, […]
Center Street to Shift to Thoughtful Books Over Incitement; Fired Kate Hartson
Center Street editorial director Kate Hartson was fired recently, the NYT reports, saying “she told associates that she believed she’d been fired for her politics.” Hartson published Donald Trump Jr., Jeanine Pirro, Corey Lewandowski, Newt Gingrich and the recent book Unmasked: Inside Antifa’s Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. She was “a true believer in Donald J. Trump, people who worked with her said.” Hachette Nashville publisher Daisy Hutton told the paper by email: “The conservative movement is in a state of flux, and the next few years will be a particularly rich time for conversation about the future of conservatism […]
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At Macmillan Children’s, Kate Avino has been promoted to assistant editor, Odd Dot; Foyinsi Adegbonmire to associate editor, Feiwel and Friends; Samia Fakih to assistant editor, First Second Books; Kiara Valdez to associate editor, First Second Books; Trisha de Guzman to editor, FSG Children’s; Allegra Green to marketing manager; Dawn Ryan to executive managing editor; and Aurora Parlagreco to associate art director. Miyako Singer has been promoted to publishing operations associate at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. Awards The ALA’s Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence were given to Deacon King Kong by James McBride and Fathoms: The World in the Whale! by Rebecca Giggs. […]
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Taylor Maccoux has been promoted to editor for Sourcebooks Wonderland. Jennifer Gingerich has joined Nelson Books as associate publisher. She previously lead and directed content development for Ramsey Solutions. Brian Ramcharan has joined Penguin Random House Audio as a producer. He was most recently a junior producer at Simon & Schuster Audio. Sarah Gerton has been promoted to agent at Curtis Brown. Pearson announced that Michael Lynton will step down from the board at the 2021 annual meeting. Forthcoming Hunter Biden will tell his story in a memoir, BEAUTIFUL THINGS, which will be published by Gallery Books on April 6. […]
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Macmillan announced a restructuring of its central digital marketing team. Cristina Gilbert has been promoted to senior vice president, publishing and marketing strategy, reporting to Jon Yaged. Newly reporting to Gilbert will be Cara Chirichella, vp, digital marketing & technology and Jacob Fanning, senior director, email marketing and CRM. The evp, marketing & consumer strategy role is being eliminated, and Jeff Carroll will leave Macmillan. Hillary Scarbrough has been promoted to vp, business systems. Newly reporting to Scarbrough will be Clark Fife, senior director, metadata services. On the trade finance team, Jason Arvelo, vp, data science & analytics, will now […]