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TRENDS (NOVEMBER 2004)
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The
West Coast is in the news: Kirsty Melville, previously
Publisher of Ten Speed Press, has become
Publisher of the new book division of University
Games. The new Publisher of Ten Speed is Lorena
Jones. ... Kevan Lyon, EVP for Wholesale
Merchandising/Distribution (including PGW) at
AMS, has left the company. Her duties were being
handled by AMS interim CEO Charles Tillinghast,
who steps down to a consulting role, as CFO Bruce
Myers assumes the position of CEO on Nov. 12. ...
Jim De Vico has been named Director of Operations
for TOKYOPOP Inc.
Janet
Harris, most recently Publisher of Storey,
is rejoining Workman in the newly created position
of Calendar Publisher. She will be working in the New
York office full time as of Jan. 1st.
One-year-old Hylas Publishing has hired as its
EVP/COO f-stop Fitzgerald who comes from Avalon,
where he was Senior Director Operations (new email:
fstop@hylaspublishing.com). Sean Moore, who was
most recently at Dorling Kindersley, is its Founder
and Publisher. Joyce Stein joined Hylas
earlier this summer as Director of Marketing and Public
Relations.
Reed Business Information named Bill McGorry
EVP and Publisher of its Publishing Group, which includes
PW, Library Journal, School Library
Journal and Criticas. Joe Tessitore,
who held this position for two years, has left the company
and may be reached at (914) 238-2979 or at Southfork2000@aol.com.
Elizabeth
Eulberg joins Little, Brown Books for Young
Readers as Director of Publicity. Eulberg worked at
Scholastic, most recently as Associate Director
of Publicity. ... Mike Campbell has been named
Director of Sales & Marketing for Timber Press.
He was most recently with Barron’s. ... Tom
Lovett, former Divisional Sales Director for Random
House has joined John Hopkins University
Press as Sales Director.
Susan Lehman has left Riverhead, where
she was an editor, to finish a book she has been writing.
She may be reached at lehman@well.com or
(212) 996-3107. ... Lisa Considine, Senior Editor
at Holt, where she has been since late 2003,
has left the company. She was previously at Wiley
and S&S. ... Holly Rothman has left
Rizzoli for packager/publisher Melcher Media,
where she will be an editor.
Caroline
Miller, former Editor of New York Magazine
(and wife of Abrams’ Eric Himmel) has
landed at a start-up magazine called Absolute New
York, an extension of the Absolute Marbella brand.
Kylie
Foxx has been named Senior Editor at Marlowe
& Company/Avalon. She had been an editor at Black
Dog & Leventhal. ... Elissa Altman has
joined Rodale as Senior Home and Garden Editor
in the women’s health book group. She was formerly the
Editor-in-Chief at The Taunton Press. Beth
Lamb has joined the company as Director of Marketing.
She was Publishing Manager for Kaplan Publishing
at S&S.
Promotions
Sandee Roston has been promoted to Associate Publisher
of the Avalon Group. She was previously Director or
Marketing. At Marlowe/Avalon Sue McCloskey has
been promoted to the position of Editor. Patti Kelly
has been named a VP of HarperCollins Publishers. Kelly
joined HarperCollins in June 2000, and is Director of
Publicity for HarperCollins, HarperPerennial,
Ecco, Fourth Estate, Rayo, and
Amistad.
November
Events
On
Nov. 10, NYT “Style Section” columnist
Bob Morris presents a “reading
of a new musical solo,” based on his new book, The Aspirational
Renter. The accompanist is none other than Miramax
Publisher Jonathan Burnham at the piano, and
proceeds benefit Dixon Place, a “laboratory for
theatre, dance, literature & performance.” The show
takes place at 7:30 p.m. at The Marquee at Marion’s,
356 Bowery at E. 4th St. For reservations, call (212)
219-0736 ext. 106.
• The Council of Literary Magazines & Presses
(CLMP) presents A GOOD SPELL, a benefit spelling
bee, at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 15 at NYU’s Bobst Library,
70 Washington Square South. Tickets, which are tax-deductible,
are $75 and may be purchased online or by calling (212)
741-9110 ext. 16. OED’s Jesse Sheidlower is
the judge and spellers include Tama Janowitz,
Alex Kuczynski, Adam Haslett, NY Post’s
Sara Nelson, and many more. There will be a betting
pool on the winner. Go to www.clmp.org
for further information and
tickets.
•
Also on Nov. 15, the 2004 Thurber Prize for
American Humor will be awarded at — where else — the
Algonquin Hotel. Andy Borowitz and Claire
Cook are co-emcees. For information call (814) 464
1032 ext. 11 or go to www.thurberhouse.org.
•
The National Book Foundation will host its
55th Annual National Book Awards on Nov. 17 at the Marriott
Marquis Hotel. Garrison Keillor will host the
awards, and Judy Blume will receive the 2004
NBF Award for Distinguished Contribution to American
Letters. For information call (212) 685-0261.
•
The Goddard Riverside 18th annual Book Fair
runs Nov. 20-21, with a kickoff party on Friday, Nov.
19, from 6-9 p.m. at Goddard Riverside Community Center,
593 Columbus Avenue @ 88th Street. For more information
contact astrothers@goddard.org. In a related fund-raising event, Bruce
Harris will be honored on Nov. 8 at the Harmonie
Club. Special guests for the event include Ken Auletta
and Harry Evans. Tickets for this and other
“Meet the Author” dinners are available by contacting
Susan Baydur at (212) 873-6600 ext. 215, or sbaydur@goddard.org.
•
If you’re looking for an event down South, The
Miami Book Fair begins with the “congress of authors”
on Nov. 7 and culminates with a street fair Nov. 12-14.
The event is hosted by Miami- Dade College. Go to miamibookfair.com
for a schedule of events and participating authors and
publishers.
Duly
Noted
Quarto Group has changed the name of its Rockport
Publishers unit to
the Quayside Publishing Group and announced that
all distribution for
the group will be handled by Creative Publishing
International, which was acquired by Quarto in July,
from F&W. In addition to CPi, the newly named
Quayside group includes the Rockport Publishers imprint,
Fair Winds Press, Quarry Books and the U.K.-based RotoVision.
CPi’s Director of Sales Kevin Haas will handle
all sales for the whole group.
Parties
The
Harold Ober Agency celebrated its 75th anniversary
appropriately at the Century Club, on Oct. 21. Present
were the ghosts of past authors (F. Scott Fitzgerald’s
granddaughter, Paul Gallico’s widow) and
the very real authors of the present and future, as
well as their acquiring editors: Amy Goldman
with Artisan’s Anne Bramson, Stephanie
Cowell and Viking’s Carole de Santi,
Elizabeth Dewberry and Harcourt’s Ann
Patty all happily presided over by Phyllis Westberg,
Emma Sweeney and recently arrived Don Laventhall.
• The Whiting Writers’ Awards were announced
on Oct. 28 at the Celeste Bartos Forum of the New York
Public Library. Edna O’Brien was the guest speaker.
Ten writers, Daniel Alarcon, Kirsten Bakis,
Catherine Barnett, Dan Chiasson, Allison
Glock, Elana Greenfield, A. Van Jordan,
Victor LaValle, John Jeremiah Sullivan,
and Tracey Scott Wilson each received
$35,000. The writers’ awards have been presented since
1985. For details go to www.whitingfoundation.org.
Mazel Tov
Congratulations
to publicist Rose Marie Morse and playwright
Bernard Pomerance (Elephant Man), who were wed
on Sept. 1.
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