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TRENDS (FEBRUARY 2005)
People
The beginning
of a new year seems to have prompted some early spring
cleaning, with an unusual number of moves around the
industry.
The one that
got the most attention was Sara Nelson’s
move to PW as its new Editor-in-Chief,
replacing Nora Rawlinson, who may be
reached at norar@nyc.rr.com.
Lee
Boudreaux has left Random House,
where she was Executive Editor.
Tracy
Carns has been named Associate Publisher of
Reganbooks, reporting to Judith Regan. She
was previously Associate Publisher of The Overlook
Press. Other news at HarperCollins,
Jacqueline Murphy has been named Executive
Editor, Harper Audio. She was Director of Sub Rights
at Harcourt. ... Stephen Hanselman
has left HarperCollins, where he oversaw HarperSanFrancisco
and various New York units in the HarperInformation
Division.
Ileene
Smith ,VP Senior Editor, has leftRandom House.
... Basic Books has hired Yale
UP’s Lara Heimert as
an Executive Editor, specializing in history. Heimert
replaces Chip Rosetti, who recently
moved to Cairo. ... Deborah Brody has
joined McGraw-Hill Professional as a Senior Editor in
the self-help/health/parenting group. She was most recently
a senior editor at Holt.
In marketing
and publicity: Craig Herman VP, Director
of Marketing at Simon and Schuster will be leaving
the company at the end of February. He may
be reached at craig_herman@hotmail.com....
Ina Howard has joined Avalon Publishing
Group as a Senior Publicist. Howard
was a publicist at Nation Books. ...
Director of Publicity Elisabeth Calamari
has left FSG for Pantheon,
with the title of Publicity Director. She had been replaced
by Sarita Varma, who has been with
FSG for about a decade. ... At HarperCollins
Pamela Spengler-Jaffee has been promoted to
Director of Publicity for the Morrow/Avon
Group. She had been Assistant Director.
Much is happening
in children’s books:
Mary
Alice Moore has been hired as Editorial Director
at Scholastic’s Grolier
division, reporting to Heather Burgett,
SVP Direct Marketing Services for Scholastic’s
At Home Division. She was publisher at innovative
Kids. Susan Bishansky is stepping
down from her position as Editorial Director to work
on a consulting basis and be replaced in her former
position by Cindy Eng who was VP, Editorial
Director, Little Simon.
Meanwhile,
Anne Schwartz has left S&S to return
to Random House Children’s Book
to head her own, as yet unnamed imprint. Suzanne
Harper has also left. She had moved to S&S
last July as SVP, Publisher for hardcover. With the
exit of Schwartz and Harper, Emma Dryden
becomes VP, Associate Publisher of Atheneum
Books for Young Readers and Ginee Seo
gets her own imprint. Seo had been Atheneum Associate
Publisher.
David
Nelson has been named VP, Publisher Beaufort
Books. He was previously at Sales Director
at Zagat and Harcourt.
... Children’s book publisher innovativeKids
has hired Tammy Johnston, who was most
recently at ABC Books and previously
at Candlewick, as VP of Sales, in charge of its new
in-house sales program. ... &S has hired Lauren
Monaco as Director of Sales, national accounts.
She was Director of Sales for Borders
at Random House.
Martin
Levin has returned to Cowan, Liebowitz
& Latman, to co-manage publishing mergers
and acquisitions with Robert Halper
and serve again as Counsel. He spent the last year working
at The van Tulleken Company and was
closely involved in the recent sale of Walker
& Co. to Bloomsbury.
Rutledge
Hill Press promoted Associate Publisher Pamela
Clements to the position of Publisher. Founder
Lawrence Stone is serving as Publisher
Emeritus, focusing on acquisitions. Clements has worked
for a total 11 years at Rutledge’s parent company
Thomas Nelson.
Marcus
Leaver , CEO of the U.K.-based Chrysalis
Publishing Group, is moving to Sterling,
in the newly created position of EVP and COO, starting
April 1.
And Juergen
Boos has been named Director of the Frankfurt
Book Fair, succeeding Volker Neumann.
Boos has been at the German branch of Wiley since 1997.
He starts April 1, but Neumann will continue to work
until his contract runs out at the end of this year.
promotions
HarperCollins
has been a veritable beehive of activity these last
few weeks: David Hirshey, Executive
Editor, has been named a SVP of HarperCollins Publishers. ...
Following the hiring of Joe Tessitore,
George Bick has been promoted to SVP, Director
of Sales and Associate Publisher, Collins and
Philip Friedman has been amed VP and Publisher,
Collins Reference. Replacing Bick,
Brian McSharry becomes VP, Director
of Sales for Morrow/Avon and director of cookbook sales.
He was National Account Manager for Morrow/Avon. ...
Mark Tauber has been promoted to Deputy
Publisher at HarperSanFrancisco. The unit is now part
of the recently-created Harper Morrow.
Harold
Clarke has been named President and Publisher
of Readers Digest RD Books and Music
division. Neil Wertheimer has been
promoted to the new role of Editor-in-Chief of books
for the North American Publishing group, in charge of
both trade and direct mail book operations.
Milena
Alberti- Perez has been named Director of Spanish
Language Publishing at Vintage Espanol. She
was Director Corporate Development forRandom House.
At S&S
Frank Fochetta has been promoted to VP Director
of Field and Special Sales. Amanda Patten
has been promoted from Editor to Senior Editor at TouchstoneFireside.
February
Events
NYU’S
Third Management Forum for Independent Publishers
will be held on April 15-16. Among the speakers in this
useful, nuts and bolts program are Nielsen Bookscan’s
Jim King, Bookspan’s
Larry Shapiro, Perseus’s
David Steinberger, and Ingram’s
Phil Ollila. The price is $950, or
$855 before March 18. Call (212)992-3236 or www.scps.nyu.edu/indy.
•
The Small Press Center and
The General Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen will
host the next speaker in The New Yorker talks,
David Remnick, on Feb. 8. Adam
Gopnik will speak on March 22. Reservations
are recommended. Admission is $15, $10 for members,
and $5 for students. For more information, call (212)840-1840.
E-mail info@smallpress.org, or go to www.smallpress.org.
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Books for a Better Life Awards, to benefit
the New York Chapter of the MS Society, takes place
on Feb. 28 at the Millennium Broadway Hotel at 6 p.m.
Meredith Vieira is the emcee and legendary
publisher Oscar Dystel and author Heidi
Murkoff are the Hall of Fame Inductees. For
information call Jenny Green Sherman at (212) 463-7787
x 3016 or email jsherman@msnyc.org.
Duly
Noted The McEvoy Group, formed by Nion
McEvoy, the chairman and CEO of Chronicle
Books, increased its equity investment in Hartle
Media, publisher of 7x7 magazine,
on the acquisition of a controlling interest in California
Home & Design magazine from 18 Media,
LLC.
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Tokyopop Inc., the country’s leading
manga publisher, has announced the “highly anticipated”
fifth Rising Stars of Manga competition,
launched on December 1, 2004 and running through February
15, 2005. Aspiring artists and writers are encouraged
to submit their 15-to-20-page manga—along with
completed entry forms—to Tokyopop “for the
chance to join the next generation of nationally published
manga-ka.” Go to www.tokyopop.com/news/mangatalent/index.php.
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