Mary Marotta will move over to Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group as senior vice president, group sales, staring March 8. She has been senior vice president, DK North America. She succeeds Chris Dufault and will report to Jaci Updike. Matty Goldberg, vice president of sales and acquisitions at Ingram Content Group, is retiring at the end of March. He was with Perseus Book Group for 17 years, and joined Ingram with the acquisition of Perseus’ distribution business in 2016. Sabrina McCarthy, vp and general manager, writes, “Matty and I have worked together for the past 23 years, and I’ve seen first […]
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Nina Wiener has joined Mayo Clinic Press in the newly created position of editor-in-chief. She was previously managing editor of Taschen. In the new role, Wiener will “guide its evolution from a trusted publisher of consumer health guides, to a multi-platform publishing house.” Noleen Robinson has been promoted to head of insight at Harper Collins. Based in the UK, she will oversee their global insight program while continuing as head of insight for UK, Australia, and India. Nicole James has left Chalberg & Sussman to start her own agency, The James Literary Agency. Adria Goetz has been promoted to senior […]
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Kaitlyn Sanchez is joining Red Fox Literary as agent. She was previously associate agent at Olswanger Literary. In the publishing operations department at Penguin Random House, Hanna Glidden and Amanda Rodell are promoted to director, and Kim Wiley is promoted to manager. Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita, editor of crime anthologies including Unspeakable Acts and Women Crime Writers, and former news editor at Publishers Lunch, has joined the New York Times Book Review as crime columnist. Marilyn Stasio, who has written the crime column since 1988, is retiring. Disney Television Studios has formed a new creative acquisitions department, focused […]
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Ruth Dickey will join the National Book Foundation as executive director on May 17. She has served as executive director of Seattle Arts & Lectures since 2013. Former lead Lisa Lucas, who serves on the NBF board now, says in the announcement, “Ruth Dickey’s extraordinary skill set—developed over many years as an exceptional, thoughtful, and dynamic leader in the nonprofit literary space—is precisely what the National Book Foundation needs to charge forward,. Her experiences working across the country help to remind us all that this work is for everyone, everywhere.” David Steinberger, chair of the National Book Foundation’s board of […]
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Jodi Weiss has been promoted to the newly created position of chief sales officer at Workman Publishing, unifying the Workman sales teams under a single leader for the first time. She reports to ceo Dan Reynolds, who says: “Jodi is extremely hardworking and a natural problem solver; she understands the importance of getting to know the book, she collaborates with both the publisher and the editor, she partners with other departments including customer service and IT, and she is immersed in the data that helps guide her. And she is notably relentless about getting our books into very competitive and […]
People, Etc.: Maria Guarnaschelli Dies
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 […]