Aliya King Neil will join Gallery Books as a senior editor on April 5. She was previously editor-at-large at Medium. At Hachette Book Group, Megan Fitzpatrick has been promoted to executive director of marketing & publicity for Hachette Audio; Barbara Slavin to senior director of digital sales and business development; and Mary Urban to associate director of digital sales. Terri Lancaster has been promoted to senior production coordinator, reprints at Chronicle Books. Rick Garcia has joined Harper Collins as director of digital advertising for the general books group. He was previously head of programmatic advertising at Penguin Random House. Connor […]
Personnel
Nourry Exits As CEO of Lagardere Publishing
Just days after hiring a new pr consultant and embarking on a broad press campaign to reiterate his opposition to seeing parts of Lagardere Publishing sold to aggressive shareholder Vivendi, longtime ceo of the publishing division Arnaud Nourry “has decided to part ways with the Group on an amicable basis,” the company announced. As France’s Le Figaro put it, “One interview too many. By speaking in Le Monde to oppose any dismantling of Hachette Livre, Arnaud Nourry signed his end.” Co-managing partner of Lagardère (and therefore loyal supporter of company chief executive Arnaud Lagardere) Pierre Leroy was named chairman and ceo […]
People, Etc.
Christina Loff is leaving her role at Chronicle Books as senior marketing and publicity director to launch her own digital marketing and publicity agency where she will work with creative companies, artists, authors and publishers. George R.R. Martin has a new deal with HBO to develop additional programming for them over the next 5 years, THR reports, “worth mid-eight figures.” Obituaries Beverly Clearly, 104, author of the Ramona Quimby books, died on Thursday in Carmel, CA. Larry McMurtry, 84, author of more than 30 books including Lonesome Dove and The Last Picture show, died on Thursday in Archer, Texas. Unions […]
People, Awards, Etc.
LaSharah S. Bunting will join the Simon & Schuster imprint as vice president and executive editor, starting May 3, and acquiring nonfiction and fiction. She was most recently director/journalism at John S. and James L. Knight Foundation At Gallery Books, Molly Gregory, Max Meltzer, and Maggie Loughran have each been promoted to associate editor. Awards Carmen Maria Machado‘s In the Dream House won the 2021 Rathbone’s Folio Prize. Australia’s Stella Prize announced its 2021 shortlist, with the winner to be named April 22: Fathoms, by Rebecca Giggs Revenge, by S.L. Lim The Animals In That Country, by Laura Jean Mckay Witness, […]
People, Etc.
Jen Long has been promoted to vice president, deputy publisher of the Gallery Books Group, reporting to Jen Bergstrom. Sareena Kamath will join Zando as associate editor on March 29, reporting to Emily Bell. She was most recently assistant editor at Mulholland Books. Caolinn Douglas will join as executive coordinator and assistant editor on March 29, reporting to Molly Stern and Emily Bell. She was most recently at Bookouture in the UK. Sarah Lyn Rogers has been promoted to associate editor at Soft Skull Press. At Simon & Schuster, Kaiya Muniz has been promoted to national account manager for Barnes […]
People, Etc.
Following the reorganization of Knopf Random House Canada into Knopf Canada and Random House Canada last December, the company made a number of personnel announcements. At Random House Canada, Craig Pyette and Pamela Murray will remain on the team, both in the role of senior editor. Deirdre Molina stays on as senior managing editor. Sarah Jackson has been promoted to associate editor. Evan Klein will work with the Random House Canada team as imprint sales director, reporting to group sales director Val Gow. At Knopf Canada, Lynn Henry will stay in the role of publishing director. Amanda Betts has been promoted to the […]