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FROM PUBLISHING TRENDS (MARCH 2008)

PEOPLE
More fallout from the HMH merger: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has let go Web Younce, Anton Mueller, Jane Rosenman, and Stacia Decker. Meanwhile, Janet Silver, former VP and Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Trade, will join Nan A. Talese as Editor at Large. Lorna Owen has been promoted to Senior Editor at the imprint.

Dan Farley, recently President and CEO of Harcourt, has been named interim President and Publisher of Henry Holt, succeeding John Sterling who assumes “a range of new responsibilities,” both editorial and digital, as EVP of Macmillan.

Nancy Grant, formerly MD of Kingfisher until HM sold it to Macmillan, has been named SVP, Marketing of the combined supplementary education divisions of HM and Harcourt based in Wilmington, MA.

Linda Cunningham has been named VP, EIC of Guidepost Books. She was most recently Editorial Director of Meredith Books.

Ken Siman has resigned as Publisher of Virgin USA and may be reached at kensiman@gmail.com.
Raymond Garcia, who was Associate Publisher at Harper’s Rayo, moves to Penguin as Publisher of the newly launched Celebra imprint.

Meanwhile, Mariann Donato has left Penguin Children’s where she was Director of Sales. She may be reached at mariann_donato@msn.com.

Gillian Blake has joined Collins as Executive Editor. She has been an Executive Editor at Bloomsbury for the past five years. And Lindsay Sagnette, also ex-Bloomsbury, joins St. Martin’s in early March as an Editor.

Ann Binkley, Director of Public Relations at Borders Group, is leaving in March. SVP Marketing Michael Tam has also left.

Pam Hoenig has left Taunton Press, and can be reached at phoenig@vh.net or at (845) 297-8302.
Jeffrey Yamaguchi has joined Doubleday Broadway and Spiegel & Grau as Associate Director of online marketing. He was previously at HarperCollins. . . . Crown has created an online sales and marketing department, headed by Robert Manger, who moved to the division last year from Bertelsmann Direct North America, reporting to Jenny Frost. It will comprise five groups: Online Marketing and Media, Creative Development, Web Production, Project Management, and Analysis. Also in the digital space, F+W Publications has hired Chad Phelps for the new position of VP, digital media for their book division, reporting to book division President Sara Domville. No word on a new Publisher for Adams Media.

In publicity, Carol Morgan has been named Publicity Director at Welcome Books. Morgan most recently operated her own PR firm and before that was Publicity Director of Harry N. Abrams. . . . Cassie Dendurent Nelson has joined Basic Books as Assistant Director of Publicity. She has worked at Wiley, Walker, and Free Press. . . . Darren Shannon recently joined Cambridge University Press as the Publicity Manager. She was at Oxford University Press for the past four years.

S&S announced Elinor Hirschhorn has been named to the newly created position of EVP, Chief Digital Officer of S&S. Hirschhorn was at College Sports Television Networks (CSTV) where she was EVP, Corporate Development and Strategy.

The ongoing restructuring of S&S Books for Young Readers includes the hiring of Stephanie Voros as VP, Subsidiary Rights. She was Director of Subsidiary Rights for Little Brown Children’s. Laurent Linn has been named Art Director for S&S Books for Young Readers. Linn was most recently with Henry Holt Children’s. Dee Anne Grande, formerly with Little Simon Inspirations and Susan Burke of Atheneum and Renne Fountain have left the company. Kim Shannon has left S&S, where she was Director of National Accounts for children’s, to return to Random House, working for Al Greco, newly named VP Adult Retail Sales.

Also at RH, EVP International Sales Director Bonnie Ammer announced Mary Beth Jarrad has joined the company as Senior Director, International Sales, based in New York. Jarrad was most recently at Cambridge University Press.

And in a second hire for Egmont US, Regina Griffin, formerly of Holiday House, has been named Executive Editor.

Marketing Director Sydney Webber has also left Random House’s Potter imprint to go to Oxmoor House to head up Sales & Marketing in their NY office.

At Harlequin, Kelli Martin has been hired as Senior Editor, Kimani Romance. She previously held editorial positions at Jump at the Sun, Amistad, and S&S. . . . Janet Hill, EVP Doubleday Broadway and founder of the Harlem Moon imprint, has left the company.

Barbara Jones has joined Hyperion as Executive Editor. She was Deputy Editor at More magazine. Also at Hyperion, Gretchen Young has been promoted to Editorial Director for ABC Synergy, but retains her Executive Editor position.

Karla Wiles has been hired as VP of marketing at Books-A-Million. She was EVP and Director of Client Services at o2 ideas, a marketing communications firm in Birmingham, Alabama. . . . Don Melinsky has joined National Book Network as VP, business management. He was most recently VP, financial planning, at Voyager Learning.

In a Crown reorganization (see below), the position of Director, Creative and Managing Editorial for Audio and Large Print has been eliminated and Sue Daulton is leaving the company.

PROMOTIONS
Crown is consolidating the managing editorial, art, and marketing art functions for RH Info, Fodor’s, and Audio into one centralized area. Denise DeGennaro, V.P., Executive Managing Editor has added the group’s managing editorial support to her responsibilities. Additionally, Fabrizio La Rocca, V.P., Creative Director, assumes responsibility for the group’s art and design and marketing art functions.

In HMH’s adult trade department, Harcourt’s EIC Andrea Schulz has been named VP and EIC for the new combined group, as Houghton’s Ken Carpenter becomes VP and Director, Trade Paperbacks. In the Children’s division, Houghton’s Mary Wilcox has been named VP, Editorial Director for franchise publishing, and Houghton’s Julia Richardson has been named Editorial Director of paperback publishing.
Holly Ruck has been promoted to Penguin Children’s National Account Manager, calling on B&N.
In promotions at RH Children’s: Cletus Durkin moves up to VP, Sales Director, Wholesale/ Educational & Library jobbers; Felicia Frazier adds responsibility for overseeing sales to Amazon and American Wholesale Book Company; Joy Dallanegra-Sanger moves back from Doubleday Broadway as VP, Director, Field Sales; and Mark Santella is now VP, Sales Director, Mass Merchandise. Also, Andrew Stanley has been promoted to VP, Director Special Markets and Director Proprietary Publishing for the adult publishing divisions.

In an ongoing restructuring that will create “a new vertical publishing structure,” S&S Children’s Bethany Buck has been promoted to VP and Publisher to lead a new combined unit, Aladdin/Pulse. Mara Anastas moves to VP, Deputy Publisher for Aladdin/Pulse. Director of Brand Management Alyson Grubard is named Associate Publisher for the Novelty and Media tie-in unit. Director of Publicity Paul Crichton now reports to VP, Marketing Mary McAveney. Emma Dryden has been promoted to VP and Publisher, Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry Books, and Justin Chanda has been promoted to VP and publisher, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Valerie Garfield, VP and Publisher, media tie-in and novelty, continues to head the Little Simon, Simon Spotlight, Little Simon Inspir-ations and Simon Scribbles imprints.

At Tor, Patty Garcia has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity; Alexis Saarela and Dot Lin have both been promoted to Publicity Manager. . . . Holly Marvin, RH Publicity Director, has been named VP.

UPCOMING EVENTS
The American Studies Program at Columbia University and The Library of America, in collaboration with the National Book Foundation, present a 75th Birthday Tribute to Philip Roth. Friday, April 11, 4–6:00 p.m. Miller Theatre, Columbia University, 2960 Broadway (at 116th Street).

SPLAT! A Graphic Novel Sympos-ium will take place on Saturday, March 15 at the New York Center of Independent Publishing (NYCIP). For more information, visit www.nycip.org/graphic novelsymposium.

On Friday and Saturday, April 11 and 12, The Fourth Annual New York Round Table® Writers’ Conference takes place, featuring John Berendt, Alice Hoffman, and Lincoln Child. For more information visit www.writersconferencenyc.org.

Peter Mayer, President and Publisher of The Overlook Press and chairman and CEO of the Penguin Group from 1978 to 1996, has been named the winner of the fifth annual London Book Fair/Trilogy Lifetime Achievement Award in International Publishing. He will receive the award at April’s London Book Fair.

DULY NOTED
Books for a Better Life Awards were handed out at the annual awards night on Monday, February 25 and Bantam Dell’s Toni Burbank was inducted into the Hall of Fame.

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