People Round-Up, Mid-May 2016

PEOPLE

There were changes at various imprints at Macmillan. Ben Tomek will join Flatiron Books as Marketing Director at the end of the month. He was Associate Marketing Director at Ecco. Keith Hayes will also join Flatiron at the end of the month as Executive Art Director. He was previously Art Director at Little, Brown. Rebecca Lang joined St. Martin’s Press as Publicity Manager. She was previously Senior Publicist at Viking and Penguin. Jenna Johnson joined Farrar, Straus Giroux as Executive Editor and Jeremy Davies joined as Editor. Johnson was previously Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Davies was Senior Editor at Dalkey Archive Press. Allison Adler has left her position as Associate Editor at Henry Holt to start her own editorial consulting service, Allison Adler Editorial.

Brendan Vaughan is now Executive Editor at Ballantine Bantam Dell. He was most recently Executive Editor at GQ. Fareeda Bullert joined Penguin Random House as Marketing Manager. She was Associate Publicist at Grand Central. Emi Ikkanda is now Senior Editor at Spiegel & Grau. She was Associate Editor at Holt.

Kathleen Schmidt joined Rodale as Associate Publisher. She was previously VP of Marketing and Publicity at Running Press. Angie Giammarino joined as Senior Marketing Manager. She was previously Marketing Manager at Macmillan.

Christine Pride will join Simon & Schuster as Senior Editor in mid-June. She was most recently a freelance editorial consultant. Emily Hutton is now S&S Children’s Sales Manager. She was previously National Accounts Coordinator at Macmillan Children’s.

Brenda Chin is now Editorial Director of the Brazen and Scorched imprints at Entangled Publishing She was previously Editorial Director at Harlequin Blaze.

In children’s publishing, Saraciea Fennell joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as Publicist. She was Publicist at Scholastic. . . Scher Foord joined Scholastic.com as VP, Creative. She was previously Executive Director of User Experience and Design at Condé Nast.

Emily Giglierano joined Mulholland Books as Editor. She was previously Associate Editor at Vintage Books.

Carin Siegfried is now Sales Manager at Soho Press. Most recently, she was a freelance editor.

Sarah Mangiola joined Open Road as Senior Web Editor of Books. Previously, she was Managing Editor at The Reading Room. Shannon Jamieson Vazquez has also joined as Strategic Advisor for True Crime. She was formerly Editor at Berkley.

Kris Kliemann has left her position as VP, Director of Global Rights at Wiley. She can be reached at kliemannkris@gmail.com

László Jakab Orsós was named VP, Arts and Culture of the Brooklyn Public Library.

Jessica Sit is now Editor at Paper Lantern Lit.

Amanda Skofstad joined Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. as Publicity Director. She was previously International Communications Program Director at University of Notre Dame. Additionally, Trevor Thompson joined as New Testament Project Editor. He was previously a Lecturer in New Testament at Abilene Christian University.

Tara Carberry joined hoopla digital as Content Strategist. She was previously Associate Literary Agent at Trident Media Group.

PROMOTIONS

Helen Atsma was promoted to Editorial Director of Fiction at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Naomi Gibbs was promoted to Editor.

Emily Bell was promoted to Director, Paperback Original Imprint and Senior Editor for FSG. Additionally at Macmillan, St. Martin’s Press promoted Courtney Reed to Marketing Manager.

At Random House Children’s, Casey Ward was promoted to Director of Publicity Events, Jillian Vandall was promoted to Publicity Manager, and Cassie McGinty to Publicist. Chris Smith was promoted to Publicist at Viking and Penguin Books.

Lisa Rao was promoted to Senior Editor at Simon Spotlight. Andrea Welch was promoted to Executive Editor at Simon and Schuster Children’s imprint Beach Lane Books.

Chronicle Books promoted Noëlle Simkins to Sales Coordinator for Specialty Markets.

Andrea Brown Literary Agency promoted Kelly Sonnack to Senior Agent.

DULY NOTED

Sean McDonald was named Publisher of the new Farrar, Straus Giroux imprint MCD/FSG, which will experiment with different publishing styles, forms, and genres. He will continue as VP, Executive Director & Paperback Publishing Director for FSG. Daphne Durham will also join the MCD/FSG imprint as Executive Editor and be based in Seattle. She was previously Editor-in-Chief and Publisher of Amazon Publishing.

Milkweed Editions is opening its own bookstore in downtown Minneapolis is late June or early July. The books will be publisher agnostic, but primarily its own titles and ones from independent literary presses.

BookExpo America will return to New York for 2017.