PEOPLE With the previously announced retirement of long-time Graywolf Press director and publisher Fiona McCrae, the Press has announced that Carmen Giménez will be joining in the role of executive director and publisher, beginning August 8th. She had been publisher of Noemi Press, which she and Evan Lavendar-Smith founded in 2002. At Simon & Schuster,…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Anne Messitte, EVP at Knopf Doubleday and Vintage/Anchor, will depart the company in December “amid a company restructuring,” reports the AP. Suzanne Herz, EVP, Executive Director of Publishing at Doubleday, will expand her role to succeed Messitte as Publisher of Vintage/Anchor. At Penguin Books, Kathryn Court, who has served as President and Publisher since…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Simon & Schuster announced the 2019/2020 launch of a new imprint, Avid Reader Press. Jofie Ferrari-Adler and Ben Loehnen will serve as, respectively, VP, Publisher and VP, Editor-in-Chief; both are currently Executive Editors at S&S’s flagship imprint. Julianna Haubner is moving over from the Simon & Schuster imprint as Associate Editor. As previously reported,…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Penguin Random House, Windy Dorrestyn is now Director of Marketing at Ten Speed Press. She was previously Senior Merchandiser at Old Navy. Additionally, Lisa Beech is now Assistant Director of Publicity at WaterBrook & Multnomah. She was Associate Director of Publicity at David C Cook. Rachel Fershleiser will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Phaidon Press announced it has appointed Keith Fox as its new CEO. Fox was previously President of McGraw Hill Construction Division, President of BusinessWeek, and McGraw Hill Professional; he will work out of the New York offices. Jacky Klein will join Phaidon Press in June as Commissioning Editor, Art, working primarily out of the London offices. Previously, she was Commissioning Editor at Thames & Hudson London….Continue Reading
PEOPLE Following the recent news of Houghton Mifflin‘s planned acquisition of Harcourt, Gary Gentel has been appointed Interim President of the Trade and Reference Division, effective immediately. HM Chairman, President and CEO Tony Lucki told employees that “Gary will lead the division’s strategic direction with the support of the Trade and Reference management team, who…Continue Reading
People Maureen O’Neal has left Ballantine and can be reached by email at mrnoneal@aol.com. Elizabeth Dyssegaard is also leaving at the end of the summer. Katherine Beitner to HarperCollins as Associate Publishing Director. She was Director of Publicity for Harmony and Shaye Areheart Books. In children’s books there is more movement: Last month Diana Blough…Continue Reading
Book View People May was another busy month for publishers’ human resource directors: Michael Jacobs has gone to Abrams as CEO. He was most recently SVP of Scholastic’s trade division. In addition, Ron Longe has been named Director of Publicity for STC, also part of the Martinière Group. He was most recently at Routledge. Michael…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Mark Pattis, who had been CEO of Tribune Education, but left in March, right before the division was put on the market (it was just sold to McGraw–Hill), has become an investor. He is a partner in Next Chapter Holdings, a company that invests in a number of areas, including books, magazines, and digital…Continue Reading
