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Trendspotting 2008

Technogasm: 2007 Year-In-Review

2007 Know Your Publishing Quiz

2007 Year-End International Fiction Bestsellers

Reeling & Dealing 2008

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2008 CONTACT SHEET

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FROM PUBLISHING TRENDS (ANNUAL UPDATE 2008)

PEOPLE

Lots of January moves planned: Ira Silverberg will move to Sterling Lord Literistic. He has been at Donadio & Olson since moving from publishing into agenting ten years ago. His new email address is Ira@sll.com....Joseph Monti will become Director of paperbacks at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Monti was a buyer at B&N before joining Houghton Mifflin in 2006....Elisabeth Calamari will join Penguin Press as Senior Publicity Specialist in January. Calamari has been Director of Publicity at Pantheon since 2005.

Denise McGann has moved to Rodale as Rights/Acquisitions for the Direct Marketing Group. She had been at Bookspan. Howard Weill has joined Rodale, reporting to the CFO.

Jared Kieling has resigned from Bloomberg Press, where he had recently been promoted to Publisher. He may be reached at j.kieling@verizon.net.

HarperCollins announced it has hired Hollis Heimbouch as VP and Publisher, Collins Business, reporting to Steve Ross. She was previously at Harvard Business School Press where she was Associate Publisher and Editorial Director. Bill Strachan, most recently at Carroll & Graf, has gone to Collins as Editor at Large, reporting to Bruce Nichols. Also joining Collins, as Editor, is Serena Jones who was previously at S&S. (Meanwhile, Ethan Friedman has been promoted to Senior Editor.)

Finally, Moe Girkins has been named President and CEO of Zondervan. She will report to Jane Friedman. For the last six years she has worked as an advisor to Investor Growth Capital.
Meanwhile, Alison Callahan has left Harper after eight years to join Doubleday as Executive Editor, reporting to Bill Thomas.

Claire Israel, Director of Digital Content and Business Development is leaving S&S and is reachable at cisrael480@aol.com. In January, she will be joining www.TurnHere.com, a startup geared to authors and publishers. Meanwhile, Carolyn Connolly has joined S&S as VP, Human Resources. Connolly was previously at the United States Trust Company of New York. She replaces Mark Zulli, who has taken a position as SVP, Human Resources with CBS Radio and CBS Outdoors.

Managing Director of Virgin Books, KT Forster, has decided to leave the company to develop new projects. “KT has been instrumental in building Virgin Books and led its acquisition by The Random House Group in April 2007,” according to the statement issued by Richard Cable, Chairman of Virgin Books, who takes on the day-to-day management of the company following her departure.

Ron T. Lippock has joined Eagle Publishing as VP and group publisher, responsible for the Conservative Book Club and the company’s “rapidly growing direct-to-consumer geopolitical publications,” which include the club, Human Events.com, RedState.com and others.

Tim Ditlow “has decided to broaden his reach beyond our company, which means that he will leave his current position at year’s end” as VP Publisher at Large for Random House Audio and become a consultant to the company. The Listening Library imprint, where Ditlow worked early on, was founded by his parents in 1955, and then brought to Random House in 1999.

Mike Hejny has left Motorbooks, which was recently acquired by the Quarto Group. Two departures from Minnesota Historical Press: Alison Vandenberg has gone to assume a marketing and sales position at Hazelden Books. Greg Britton is leaving the company at the end of January to become the Publisher of Getty Publications, starting February 4, 2008, and will report directly to Thomas Rhoads, Associate Director. The job has been open since Chris Hudson went to MoMA in 2005.
Mark Chimsky-Lustig has gone to Sellers Publishing in the new position of Editor-in-Chief of the book division, reporting to publishing director Robin Haywood. He had been an editorial consultant.

PROMOTIONS

With Houghton Mifflin’s acquisition of Harcourt, Gary Gentel remains as President of what is now known as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade and Reference Publishers. He had been named Interim President in July, when news of the proposed acquisition was first made public. He had previously been Corporate VP, Director of Sales.

Lots of children’s book promotions: Suzanne Murphy has been named VP & Publisher, Trade Publishing and Marketing, for Scholastic’s Trade Publishing division, succeeding Ellie Berger in this role, who was promoted to President in October. Murphy announced that David Saylor is promoted to the newly created position of VP, Associate Publisher & Creative Director, Hardcover Books; Leslie Garych is named VP of Trade Marketing, and Tracy van Straaten is named VP of Publicity & Education/Library Marketing. David Levithan is promoted to Executive Editorial Director, Scholastic Press Fiction, Multimedia Publishing, and PUSH. All report to Murphy.

Little, Brown Children’s Jennifer Hunt has been promoted to Executive Editor; Alvina Ling is Senior Editor and Nancy Conescu is Editor. Amy Verardo has become Assistant Director, Subsidiary Rights.
In Penguin news: Eileen Kreit has been promoted to President and Publisher, Puffin Books. She has been with the company for seventeen years and has held a variety of positions in Sales. Michael Green has been promoted to President and Publisher, Philomel Books. He began his publishing career with Philomel more than sixteen years ago. At Viking, Alessandra Lusardi has been promoted to Editor. She joined the company in 2002.

Maggie Crawford has moved from VP, Editorial Director to a strictly editorial role at Pocket Books. Editorial will now report directly to Publisher Louise Burke. Lauren McKenna has been promoted to Executive Editor. Deputy Publisher. Anthony Ziccardi will continue to manage the media group editors.
Ana Maria Allessi, Publisher Harper Media, has been named VP. She joined HarperCollins in 2001.
Nicole Kalian has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity at Free Press. She has been at FP since 2004.

UPCOMING EVENTS

* Futurus Lux/Future Light: The 15th Annual (free) Alternative New Year’s Day Spoken Word Extravaganza takes place on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 - Wednesday, January 2, 2008 from 2:00 PM - 12:00 AM at Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St. in New York. There is a Book/CD Sale at this charitable event, which includes 150 Performers such as Michael Graves, Elizabeth Harrington, Bob Hart, Cornelius Jones, Richard Kostelanetz, Bruce Weber and Donald Lev. The invitation urges attendees to “Bring your words for the mic and canned goods and paperback books for City Harvest and Books Behind Bars.” For more information, go to: SpokenWordExtravaganza.org

* The NYT Arts & Leisure Week panel Literary Brooklyn features Paul Auster, Nicole Krauss, and Rick Moody; The Times’s Bill Goldstein moderates, Saturday 1/12 at noon. Tickets at www.timestalks.com.

* Highlights of the Midwinter ALA in Philadelphia (January 11-16) include Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Geraldine Brooks, and Youth Media Awards announcements for the Newbery, the Caldecott and the Coretta Scott King Awards. Go to www.ala.org

DULY NOTED

In honor of the Spears sisters, we thought we’d point out the new Harlequin “pregnant” series. Go to: www.eharlequin.com/ storeitem.html?iid=16082&cid=226

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Read other articles from this issue (Annual Update 2008 ):

Trendspotting 2008

Technogasm: 2007 Year-In-Review

2007 Know Your Publishing Quiz

2007 Year-End International Fiction Bestsellers

Reeling & Dealing 2008

Bookview

2008 CONTACT SHEET

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