PEOPLE
April began with the front page
NYT story about Judith Regan’s move to
LA - a story whose significance is still somewhat unclear.
Then real news came of Scholastic's Barbara
Marcus leaving in June and being succeeded by Disney's
Lisa Holton.
Changes at Rodale include
the just announced resignation of Amy Rhodes,
Publisher of Trade Books, and the earlier resignation
of Executive Editor Jeremy Katz (see below).
Louise Rice has been named as Rodale's International
Managing Director, based in the UK office. and Jennifer
DeFilippi has been hired as an editor, acquiring
general lifestyle books and reporting to Margot Schupf.
She was at Clarkson Potter.
Mary Ellen Curley has
left HarperCollins, where she was Associate Publisher
for Resource and Business. She may be reached at CurleyMaryEllen@aol.com.
. . . Sally Wood has left her position as President
of Pearson's Family Education Network and may
be reached at sallywood7@yahoo.com..
. . . Peter McCarthy, VP Executive Director of
Penguin (US) online has resigned.
Workman has hired Steven
Pace, formerly VP of retail sales at Baker &
Taylor, as its trade Sales Director. And Chris
Pavone is leaving Clarkson Potter to join
Artisan as Associate Publisher.
In the literary agency maelstrom,
Laura Nolan who left B&N Publishing has
joined Creative Culture, the literary agency
run by Mary Ann Naples and Debra Goldstein.
. . . Curtis Brown agent Ellen Geiger
has joined the Frances Goldin Literary Agency.
. . . Jeremy Katz, has left his job as Executive Editor
of Men's Health and Sports books at Rodale to join Greenburger
as an agent, dividing his time between Pennsylvania
and New York. He can be reached at
jkatz@sjga.com or 212 206 5621. . . . Gail Fortune
has left Berkley after 15 years there as an editor
to join John Talbot in a new venture, The
Talbot Fortune Agency.
Kathy Schneider, Associate
Publisher at Miramax, is following her boss Jonathan
Burnham, to HarperCollins. Emily Takoudes,
formerly an associate editor at S&S, is joining
HarperCollins' Ecco imprint as an Editor on May
5. Lee Boudreaux joined in February. And at Regan
Books, Chris Min Park has joined the imprint
as a senior editor, effective immediately. She was at
Rugged Land.
Stephen Morrison returns
to Penguin as Editor-in-Chief and Associate Publisher,
reporting to Kathryn Court, President and Publisher
of Penguin and Plume. Morrison will be responsible
for Penguin Trade Paperbacks and the execution of the
Penguin Publishing Program. He was most recently at
Bloomsbury USA.
Patricia Kelly has become
senior Director of Sales as well as Director of NBNKids.
Kelly, who was Director of Sales for children's and
special-markets at PGW, will remain based in the Bay
Area and will report to VP of Sales, Michael Sullivan.
Larry D. Chilnick has
been appointed Editorial Director of the Cleveland
Clinic Press, a new commercial publishing arm of
The Cleveland Clinic. Chilnick has most recently been
a book packager and agent.
Elisabeth Dyssegaard joins
Smithsonian Books, as Executive Editor. She was
most recently at Ballantine and before that,
at FSG. She may be reached at dyssegaarde@si.edu.
Also joining the editorial department is T.J. Kellerher,
most recently senior editor at Natural History magazine.
Louisa Ermelino has joined
PW as Reviews Editor, a new position. Ermelino,
most recently chief of reporters at InStyle magazine,
has been a reviewer for both trade and consumer magazines.
She is also the author of three novels, and teaches
creative writing at Columbia.
David Brown joins Atria
and Washington Square Press as Publicity Manager.
He was at Morrow/Avon.
In children's books: Jeanne
Mosure moves into Lisa Holton's place at Disney.
Brenda Bowen has been promoted to VP, Associate
Publisher and Editor-in-Chief, and Lynn Waggoner
was promoted to VP, Global Books & U.S. Associate Publisher.
Mark Maxwell has been promoted to Director of
Sales for Disney Children's Book Group and Jim Conlin
comes over from Scholastic and Borders
as Senior Account Executive. Meanwhile, Catherine
Daly has left Disney for the position of VP Editorial
Director of S&S's Simon Spotlight. . . .
Ellen Stamper has joined
HarperFestival as Editorial Director, reporting
to VP Publishing Director Emily Brenner. Stamper
was Publisher of Paint Chip Productions, a packaging
division of Walter Foster Publishing. . . . Harcourt
announced a restructuring of their children's editorial
department: Allyn Johnston has been promoted
to the newly created position of Editor in Chief, while
Elizabeth Van Doren takes an “enhanced” Editorial
Director position. And Kathy Dawson has joined
as Associate Editorial Director. She was at Putnam.
Jeannette Lawson has been promoted to Executive
Editor. . . .
Jennifer Gonzalez has
been hired by Candlewick as National Account
Manager - she was formerly at Levy Home Entertainment
where she was a Senior Account Executive on the Target
Account.
Running Press Publisher
John Whalen has left and Jon Anderson,
who had come into the company late last year, will take
over the position. He had succeeded Carlo DeVito,
who went to Penguin.
PROMOTIONS
Suzanne Herz, VP Associate
Publisher and Executive Director of Publicity for Doubleday
Broadway, has been named Publisher of the new imprint
she has formed, Flying Point Press. Her publicity
responsibilities will be assumed by Alison Rich
and David Drake, who will head respectively,
publicity at Doubleday and Broadway.
Kate Medina, Executive
Vice President and Executive Editor of the Random
House editorial imprints, has been named Executive
Editorial Director.
Hyperion's Director of Marketing
Jane Comins has been given the additional title
of Associate Publisher, while Director of Publicity
Katie Wainwright adds responsibility as Associate
Publisher for trade paperbacks. National Accounts Manager
Sarah Schaffer has been promoted to Director
of Sales.
David Roth-Ey has been
named VP, Editorial Director of Harper Perennial and
Harper trade paperbacks.
Following Emi Battaglia's
promotion to Associate Publisher, Warner has named Jennifer
Romanello as Director of Publicity.
At Rodale, Cathy Lee Gruhn
has been promoted to Executive Director of Publicity,
and Louise Braverman steps up to Associate Director.
Mariska Van Aalst and Susan Berg have
both been promoted to Senior Editor
MAY EVENTS
• Women's National Book Association
presents a May 10th panel on Young Literary Agents on
Publishing: Changing the Industry One Book at a Time.
Panelists include Andrea Barzvi (ICM),
David Black (David Black Agency), Jay
Mandel (William Morris Agency) Jim Rutman
(Sterling Lord Literistic). The panel takes place
from 6 - 8 p.m. at Small Press Center, 20 West
44th Street. Meanwhile, as of May, all NY Chapter panel
events will be available to members as streaming audio
and PDFs. For info: www.wnba-nyc.org
• The Publishing Triangle's
17th Annual Triangle Awards, honoring the best
lesbian and gay fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published
in 2004, will be presented on May 10 at the Tishman
Auditorium of the New School for Social Research
(66 West 12th Street) from 7 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sponsored
by the Avalon Publishing Group, the ceremony is free
and open to the public, with a reception to follow.
• FSG's John Glusman will
appear at 192 Books (192 Tenth Avenue at 21st
Street) on May 12 at 7 pm. He will talk about his book
Conduct Under Fire: Four American Doctors and Their
Fight for Life as Prisoners of the Japanese, which
Viking is publishing. Call 212.255.4022 to reserve
a seat.
DULY NOTED
Marsha Melnick reports
a change of address for the offices of Roundtable
Press, Inc: 102 Blooms Corners Road, Warwick, New
York 10990. Roundtable's telephone number remains the
same, 212-691-0500. The company will continue to handle
reprints, revisions, and royalties of its backlist titles.
In a related note, Marsha Melnick and Susan E. Meyer
announce the formation of Melnick & Meyer Books,
a book packaging company to develop new projects. The
new company will be located at the same address in Warwick,
New York. Melnick and Meyer can be reached at 845-986-1811.
MAZEL TOV
Carie Freimuth and John
Hughes announce the arrival of Joseph Freimuth
Hughes on March 19th in Denver.
