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Remembrance: Clara Heyworth, 28

July 14, 2011
By Michael Cader

Verso announced Wednesday on their web site “the tragic loss of Clara Heyworth, marketing manager” after she was hit by a car in Brooklyn early Sunday. They say she never regained consciousness. “The loss to Verso is immeasurable…. While her primary interest was in publicity she had very strong editorial views and intervened forcefully whenever she felt that by taking on an inappropriate manuscript Verso’s standards would be diluted. A young life so meaninglessly and prematurely truncated pains us all, but we will not forget her or her bright-eyed smile that so often lit an entire office.” Heyworth was married […]

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People, Etc.

April 22, 2011
By Sarah Weinman

Lynda Zuber Sassi has been named director of special sales for Ryland Peters & Small and CICO Books. She was previously a national accounts manager at Chronicle Books. Effective May 1, Square One Books will be distributed by Thomas Allen & Son. Previously they were distributed by the University of Toronto Press. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Andrea Welch has been promoted to senior editor, Beach Lane Books. Greg Britton will join the Johns Hopkins University Press as editorial director on May 16, where he will also be a senior member of the press’s executive committee. Previously he led the […]

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People, Etc.

April 19, 2011
By Michael Cader

Author, former editor and attorney Jeff Ourvan has joined the Jennifer Lyons Literary Agency as a literary agent. He focuses on non-fiction works, especially memoirs, histories, biographies, international current events and sports, along with some young adult, thriller and international fiction. Stephanie Knapp is joining Crown trade paperbacks assistant editor, reporting to Heather Lazare and Alexis Washam. She was an editorial assistant at Rodale Books. She will “concentrate on backlist optimization in print and digital formats with a focus on practical non-fiction.” Keen Communications mourns the passing of Thomas Winnett, founder of Wilderness Press, who died last week at 89. […]

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People, Etc.

February 28, 2011
By Michael Cader

Wendy Pallot will join Bloomsbury as group finance director on April 8, taking over from Colin Adams. Pallot is currently chairman and one of the co-founding partners of a company operating a number of local radio stations. Betty Woodmancy has joined Howard Books as vp, associate publisher. A publishing veteran of over 20 years, she has worked for Integrity, B&H, Ingram, Thomas Nelson, and Sam’s Club and Walmart. Sally Brock has joined the company as a publicist; she was at Regnery. Sarah Landis will join Harper Children’s Books on February 28 as a senior editor, working primarily on teen fiction […]

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People, Awards, Etc.: Cavin, Orson Scott Card, PM Hires, and More

January 10, 2011
By Michael Cader

Mystery book editor for Thomas Dunne Books Ruth Cavin, 92, died yesterday morning. She is remembered by longtime family friend Mike Shatzkin on his blog, who notes “what is unique about Ruth’s career is that she didn’t become an editor until she was past her 60th birthday and didn’t start her more than two decades at St. Martin’s until she was 70.” Also remarkable is Macmillan’s efforts to help Cavin keep coming to the office.Post Orson Scott Card‘s website reports that he suffered a “mild stroke” on New Year’s “He is now back home, retraining his brain so that the […]

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Ten Speed Founder Phil Wood Dies

December 14, 2010
By Michael Cader

Founder of publisher Ten Speed Press Phil Wood died on Saturday after a long battle with cancer. Wood started in a publishing as a sales rep for Penguin and founded Ten Speed in Berkeley, CA in 1971 to publish Anybody’s Bike Book, and the company was acquired by Random House in 2009. Wood was named publisher emeritus after the sale. Ten Speed’s tribute 

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