At Atria, Lisa Sciambra has been promoted to director of publicity; Dana Trocker is now associate publisher; and Suzanne Donahue takes the new role of vp, director of backlist marketing, with all three reporting to publisher Libby McGuire. Additionally, Megan Rudloff has been promoted to publicist. At Random House Children’s, Lauren Adams has been promoted to assistant director, brands and proprietary marketing.
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Carla Valadez is serving as Coffee House Press’s interim managing director, following the departure of Chris Fischbach. Mollie Reid has been promoted to associate publicist at Penguin Press. At Bertelsmann, cfo Bernd Hirsch “is leaving the company at his own request to pursue new professional challenges.” CEO of the Arvato Financial Solutions division Rolf Hellermann will take over as cfo January 1 and will join the executive board. National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature Jason Reynolds will serve as host the National Book Awards on November 18. Bookselling Friends and supporters of Talking Leaves bookstore were “worried about losing a […]
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Coffee House Press publisher Chris Fischbach has left the organization after 25 years there. He said in a statement, “It is time for me to step down as Publisher. I’m extremely proud of the work I have accomplished at Coffee House Press. I have developed incredible relationships here and look forward to the next new and exciting chapter in my career and life where I can leverage my prior experience, skills, and success to a new opportunity.” Senior editor Erika Stevens is interim editorial director, and the board will conduct a search for a new leader. Sally Hosokawa has been promoted […]
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Emma Berry joins Basic Books and Seal Press on November 16 as senior editor. Most recently, she was editor at Crown. Karen Edwards has been promoted to executive editor for the Workman imprint. John Passineau has joined the Workman children’s team as a senior designer. Previously, he was a freelance designer. Rebecca Davis has been promoted to editorial director of Boyds Mills Press/Wordsong. Carolyn P. Yoder becomes executive editor of Calkins Creek. Daniella Cohen has been promoted to associate agent at Aevitas Creative Management. Jordan Koluch has been promoted to copy chief at Catapult, Counterpoint, Soft Skull Press. On the Simon […]
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Hafizah Geter joins Janklow & Nesbit today as an agent. She was most recently editor at Amazon Publishing’s Little A and Topple Books. Julia Judge has been promoted to senior publicist at Verso Books. Rachel Vega-DeCesario has joined the New Press as assistant editor. She was previously editorial assistant at Black Dog and Leventhal. Hannah Strassburger has joined Sourcebooks as designer. Obituaries Longtime Grove Atlantic board member and executive editor Joan Bingham, 85, died on Saturday. She helped create Grove Atlantic through the merger of Grove Weidenfeld and Atlantic Monthly Press in 1993 and served on the board for the […]
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Christopher MacLehose is leaving the MacLehose Press imprint that he founded 13 years ago. Katharina Bielenberg will be promoted to publisher. Christy Ottaviano is leaving Holt Children’s, where she has worked for 28 years, to join Little, Brown Children’s on November 30. She will continue to publish there under a Christy Ottaviano Books imprint. Jessica Anderson is moving with her. Jay Pabarue has joined The New Press as marketing and publicity associate. He was previously marketing manager at Book of the Month. Randy Kessler, 50, national sales manager at Scholastic, died on October 22. He began working at Scholastic in […]