Shelley Husband has joined the Association of American Publishers as senior vice president, government affairs and special projects. Most recently she was staff director and general counsel for the House Committee on the Judiciary from 2013 to 2019. At Hachette Livre, Nathalie Houël has been promoted to group chief financial officer. Arnaud Robert becomes group secretary…
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At McClelland & Stewart, Anita Chong has been promoted to the new role of executive editor. Joe Lee has been promoted to associate editor. Emma Holmes has joined Chronicle Books as head of brand, Ridley’s Games. She was previously at Wild + Wolf. Distribution Peachtree Publishing will move their sales and distribution to Penguin Random…
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Kathryn Deaton has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Macmillan Children’s. Miranda Paul has been promoted to agent at Erin Murphy Literary Agency. At Westwood Creative Artists, Bridgette Kam is moving from the rights department to become a literary associate, working with Jackie Kaiser and Hilary McMahon. Caroline Vassallo has been promoted to international rights…
Bologna Book Fair Cancels Live Event
As everyone keeps saying, until people go back to the office they are certainly not attending book fairs and conferences. The Bologna Children’s Book Fair acknowledged reality on Thursday by officially canceling the physical events scheduled for June 14 through June 17. Unlike London Book Fair organizers, the Bologna fair stayed true to their pledge…
Bookselling: Laid Off Powell’s Employees Need to Reapply for Work, and More
Powell’s Books is staffing up again — but union employees who were laid off last year will need to reapply and cannot just step back into their old jobs. The store and the ILWU Local 5 traded statements blaming each other for not handling the negotiations properly, but the impact on the former employees is…
Same Home, New Flexibility
As you may have noticed, we recently rolled out a gentle evolution of the PublishersMarketplace.com home page. The primary purpose is to make the home page “responsive,” so that it works on screens and devices of all sizes. (Adjust the browser window size on your computer, or check it out on your cellphone to see…