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FROM PUBLISHING
TRENDS (NOVEMBER 2003)
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CDS’ Stanley
Cohen has taken a leave of absence and Steve Black
has stepped in as Acting Sales Director. David Wilk,
VP of Client Services and Business Development, has taken
over some responsibilities and a new Client Services Manager,
Kerry Liebling, has been hired.
Erin
McHugh has been named Director of Creative Services,
Trade at Scholastic. She was most recently at
Franklin Spier. Meanwhile, Michelle Lewy,
formerly VP Sales & Marketing at Scholastic, has
left the company and may be reached at MLewy99842@aol.com.
Larry Hughes has moved to HarperBusiness as
Publicity Director. He was previously at Penguin.
Meanwhile, Dave Conti, Executive Editor of HarperBusiness
for the last seven years, will be leaving HarperCollins
on November 14. He can be reached at DavidJConti@aol.com
or at (973) 650-2076. Lisa Berkowitz, also of
HarperBusiness, has left the company and has formed
Berkowitz & Assoc., specializing in strategic business
communications. She may be reached at LisaBerkowitz@aol.com,
or (212) 922-2811.
Alan Smagler has left S&S Children’s,
where he held the title of SVP Assoc. Publisher. He
may be reached at (917) 912-8050 or ajsmag@aol.com.
Heather Jackson from St. Martin’s has
gone to Rodale as Cookbook Editor, reporting
to Tami Booth. Louise Braverman has joined
Rodale as Assistant Director of Publicity for
trade books. Most recently, she held the same title
at Atria Books. Nana Greller was recently
named Associate Director of Publicity at Atria. She
was most recently at Bantam.
Former publisher of Perseus Publishing David
Goehring has been named VP and Director of Harvard
Business School Press, effective Oct. 27. He will
report to David Wan. He succeeds Carol Franco,
who has become Editor-at-Large for HBS Publishing.
As previously noted in PT, the NY office of Peters,
Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) has added another agent,
as Mark Reiter joins the agency. He was previously
at IMG.
Laurie Barnett, SparkNotes’ Editorial Director,
announces Amy Hegarty has joined the editorial
team as test-prep Editor. Most recently she edited multiple
volumes in the Road Guide USA series for Fodor’s.
Andrew Littell has also joined as Editor. He
was previously at McGraw-Hill. The newly launched
imprint, FlashKids, announces that Kerrie Baldwin
has joined as an Editor. She comes from Scholastic,
where she worked as a Production Editor.
Marian Brown has joined Bloomsbury as Director
of Publicity. She has worked on a freelance basis for
several publishers.
Paul Dinas has joined Penguin’s Alpha Books imprint
as a Senior Editor. Dinas was most recently Executive
Editor at
Reader’s Digest. He will be based in Alpha’s New York
office. (PW)
Promotions
HarperCollins’ Ardy
Khazaei and David Steinberger announce Leslie
Hulse’s promotion to Senior Director, Internet Development,
from Director, Online Business Development. Sean
Abbott has been promoted to Editorial Director,
International, for PerfectBound ebooks and to Senior
Editor of HC General Books.
Chris
Lynch has been promoted to Executive Vice President,
Publisher of S&S Audio. Lynch replaces Gilles
Dana, who is leaving the company.
Emily Forland has been appointed agent at the Wendy
Weil Agency in addition to her duties handling sub
rights.
Duly
Noted
DM News reports
that Amazon is giving marketers their first crack
at Amazon customers on Nov. 17 when it begins a package
insert program. The program will start with 500,000
pieces. DM News estimates this will bring in
$1.95 million in the next year. In 2004 2.5 million
monthly packages will be available, for an annual total
of 30 million. Amazon does not rent its postal or email
lists.
•
Word from Frankfurt officials: No more late
hours Friday night. Now we can all rest easy.
November
Events
AAP presents
“Publishing Latino Voices” on November 7. AAP President
& CEO Pat Schroeder will welcome participants
and speakers, who include Rene Alegria, Editorial
Director of Rayo, Rueben Martinez, Founder
and Owner of Libreria Books & Art in LA,
and numerous panelists. Contact Kathryn Blough
at (212) 255-0200, ext. 263, or kblough@publishers.org.
•
192 Books announces that beginning in November actors,
artists, and illustrators will read children’s books
on Saturday mornings at 11 am. Actress Blair Brown
will inaugurate the children’s reading series on November
1st and read selections from books by Roald Dahl
and Eric Carle; artist William Wegman
will come with his dogs on November 15 and present some
of his titles, including the recently published Chip
Wants a Dog.
• Small Press Center presents “Better than Bookstores:
Sales and Distribution,” on Thursday, November 21 from
6 to 8 pm. Panelists include Nancy Kranich, Past
President, ALA; Martin Schamus, SVP, Special
Sales, Sterling; and Tom Woll, President,
Cross River Publishing Consultants. For details go to
www.smallpress.org.
•
On November 18 The Mercantile Library hosts
“Rare Books, Fine Wines” at the Century Club, and presents
James Salter with the annual Clifton Fadiman
medal. For more information about the evening, call
(212) 755-6710.
•
The National Book Awards are slated for November
19, at the Marriott Marquis. This will be Neil Baldwin’s
last year as Director of the NBF. Walter Mosley
is the MC. For information call Maryann Jacob at (212)
685-0261.
Mazel
Tov
To FSG’s Elisabeth
Sifton on the publication of her book The Serenity
Prayer (Norton). A party held in her honor
included Joe Lelyveld, the Schlesingers,
new CJ school dean Nick Lemann, Osborn Elliott,
Chip McGrath, and Victor Navasky.
“Books
for a Better Life” will hold its eighth annual event
on February 23, in New York. Meredith Vieira will
once again emcee the evening at which Wayne
Dyer will be inducted into the “Ardath Rodale
Books for a Better Life Hall of Fame.” Money raised
goes to the National MS Society’s NYC chapter.
Thirty-five finalists in seven categories have been
selected from the 300+ books that were submitted. They
are:
First
Book: A Million Little Pieces, James Frey,
Doubleday; Another Place at the Table, Kathy
Harrison, Tarcher/Penguin; Escape from Slavery,
Francis Bok, St. Martin’s; Laughing Allegra,
Anne Ford, Newmarket; The Essential 55, Ron Clark,
Hyperion. Inspirational Memoir: Ambulance
Girl, Jane Stern, Crown; Honor Lost, Norma
Khouri, Atria; Lost in America, Sherwin Nuland,
Alfred A. Knopf; Rescuing Patty Hearst, Virginia
Holman, S&S; The Stuff of Life, Karen Karbo,
Bloomsbury. Motivational: Seeing Lessons,
Tom Sullivan, John Wiley & Sons; There Are No
Shortcuts, Rafe Esquith, Pantheon; The Creative
Habit, Twyla Tharp, S&S; The Essential 55,
Ron Clark, Hyperion; The Joy Diet, Martha Beck,
Crown. Psychology: The Anxiety Book, Jonathan
Davidson with Henry Dreher, Riverhead; Dante’s Path,
Booney Gulino Schaub & Richard Schaub, Gotham Books;
Einstein Never Used Flash Cards, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek
& Friends, Rodale; The Emotional Energy Factor,
Mira Kirshenbaum, Bantam; The New Brain, Richard
Restak, Rodale. Relationships: Find a Husband
After 35, Rachel Greenwald, Ballantine; Not “Just
Friends”, Shirley P. Glass with Jean Coppock Staeheli,
Free Press; Saving Beauty from the Beast, Vicky
Cropmton & Ellen Zelda Kessner, Little, Brown; The
Bully, the Bullied & the Bystander, Barbara
Coloroso, HarperCollins; You Have to Say I’m Pretty,
You’re My Mother, Stephanie Pierson & Phyllis
Cohen, S&S. Spiritual: Beyond Belief,
Elaine Pagels, Random House; Not Fade Away, Laurence
Shames & Peter Barton, Rodale; Radical Acceptance,
Tara Brach, Bantam; Seeking Enlightenment, Nevada
Barr, G.P Putnam’s; The Art of Happiness at
Work, Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler, Riverhead.
Wellness: Honoring the Medicine, Kenneth
Cohen, Ballantine; The Macrobiotic Plan to Total
Health, Micho Kushi & Alex Jack, Ballantine;
The No Grain Diet, Dr. Joseph Mercola with Alison
Rose Levy, Dutton; The Truth About Chronic Pain,
Arthur Rosenfeld, Basic Books; Ultraprevention,
Mark Hyman & Mark Liponis, Scribner.
For
more information go to msnyc.org.
©2003
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