PEOPLE
CDS’ Stanley Cohen has taken a leave of absence and Steve Black has stepped in as Acting Sales Director. David Wilk, VP of Client Services and Business Development, has taken over some responsibilities and a new Client Services Manager, Kerry Liebling, has been hired.
Erin McHugh has been named Director of Creative Services, Trade at Scholastic. She was most recently at Franklin Spier. Meanwhile, Michelle Lewy, formerly VP Sales & Marketing at Scholastic, has left the company and may be reached at MLewy99842@aol.com.
Larry Hughes has moved to HarperBusiness as Publicity Director. He was previously at Penguin. Meanwhile, Dave Conti, Executive Editor of HarperBusiness for the last seven years, will be leaving HarperCollins on November 14. He can be reached at DavidJConti@aol.com or at (973) 650-2076. Lisa Berkowitz, also of HarperBusiness, has left the company and has formed Berkowitz & Assoc., specializing in strategic business communications. She may be reached at LisaBerkowitz@aol.com, or (212) 922-2811.
Alan Smagler has left S&S Children’s, where he held the title of SVP Assoc. Publisher. He may be reached at (917) 912-8050 or ajsmag@aol.com.
Heather Jackson from St. Martin’s has gone to Rodale as Cookbook Editor, reporting to Tami Booth. Louise Braverman has joined Rodale as Assistant Director of Publicity for trade books. Most recently, she held the same title at Atria Books. Nana Greller was recently named Associate Director of Publicity at Atria. She was most recently at Bantam.
Former publisher of Perseus Publishing David Goehring has been named VP and Director of Harvard Business School Press, effective Oct. 27. He will report to David Wan. He succeeds Carol Franco, who has become Editor-at-Large for HBS Publishing.
As previously noted in PT, the NY office of Peters, Fraser and Dunlop (PFD) has added another agent, as Mark Reiter joins the agency. He was previously at IMG.
Laurie Barnett, SparkNotes’ Editorial Director, announces Amy Hegarty has joined the editorial team as test-prep Editor. Most recently she edited multiple volumes in the Road Guide USA series for Fodor’s. Andrew Littell has also joined as Editor. He was previously at McGraw-Hill. The newly launched imprint, FlashKids, announces that Kerrie Baldwin has joined as an Editor. She comes from Scholastic, where she worked as a Production Editor.
Marian Brown has joined Bloomsbury as Director of Publicity. She has worked on a freelance basis for several publishers.
Paul Dinas has joined Penguin’s Alpha Books imprint as a Senior Editor. Dinas was most recently Executive Editor at
Reader’s Digest. He will be based in Alpha’s New York office. (PW)
PROMOTIONS
HarperCollins’ Ardy Khazaei and David Steinberger announce Leslie Hulse’s promotion to Senior Director, Internet Development, from Director, Online Business Development. Sean Abbott has been promoted to Editorial Director, International, for PerfectBound ebooks and to Senior Editor of HC General Books.
Chris Lynch has been promoted to Executive Vice President, Publisher of S&S Audio. Lynch replaces Gilles Dana, who is leaving the company.
Emily Forland has been appointed agent at the Wendy Weil Agency in addition to her duties handling sub rights.
DULY NOTED
DM News reports that Amazon is giving marketers their first crack at Amazon customers on Nov. 17 when it begins a package insert program. The program will start with 500,000 pieces. DM News estimates this will bring in $1.95 million in the next year. In 2004 2.5 million monthly packages will be available, for an annual total of 30 million. Amazon does not rent its postal or email lists.
• Word from Frankfurt officials: No more late hours Friday night. Now we can all rest easy.
November Events
AAP presents “Publishing Latino Voices” on November 7. AAP President & CEO Pat Schroeder will welcome participants and speakers, who include Rene Alegria, Editorial Director of Rayo, Rueben Martinez, Founder and Owner of Libreria Books & Art in LA, and numerous panelists. Contact Kathryn Blough at (212) 255-0200, ext. 263, or kblough@publishers.org.
• 192 Books announces that beginning in November actors, artists, and illustrators will read children’s books on Saturday mornings at 11 am. Actress Blair Brown will inaugurate the children’s reading series on November 1st and read selections from books by Roald Dahl and Eric Carle; artist William Wegman will come with his dogs on November 15 and present some of his titles, including the recently published Chip Wants a Dog.
• Small Press Center presents “Better than Bookstores: Sales and Distribution,” on Thursday, November 21 from 6 to 8 pm. Panelists include Nancy Kranich, Past President, ALA; Martin Schamus, SVP, Special Sales, Sterling; and Tom Woll, President, Cross River Publishing Consultants. For details go to www.smallpress.org.
• On November 18 The Mercantile Library hosts “Rare Books, Fine Wines” at the Century Club, and presents James Salter with the annual Clifton Fadiman medal. For more information about the evening, call (212) 755-6710.
• The National Book Awards are slated for November 19, at the Marriott Marquis. This will be Neil Baldwin’s last year as Director of the NBF. Walter Mosley is the MC. For information call Maryann Jacob at (212) 685-0261.
Mazel Tov
To FSG’s Elisabeth Sifton on the publication of her book The Serenity Prayer (Norton). A party held in her honor included Joe Lelyveld, the Schlesingers, new CJ school dean Nick Lemann, Osborn Elliott, Chip McGrath, and Victor Navasky.
“Books for a Better Life” will hold its eighth annual event on February 23, in New York. Meredith Vieira will once again emcee the evening at which Wayne Dyer will be inducted into the “Ardath Rodale Books for a Better Life Hall of Fame.” Money raised goes to the National MS Society’s NYC chapter.
Thirty-five finalists in seven categories have been selected from the 300+ books that were submitted. They are:
First Book: A Million Little Pieces, James Frey, Doubleday; Another Place at the Table, Kathy Harrison, Tarcher/Penguin; Escape from Slavery, Francis Bok, St. Martin’s; Laughing Allegra, Anne Ford, Newmarket; The Essential 55, Ron Clark, Hyperion. Inspirational Memoir: Ambulance Girl, Jane Stern, Crown; Honor Lost, Norma Khouri, Atria; Lost in America, Sherwin Nuland, Alfred A. Knopf; Rescuing Patty Hearst, Virginia Holman, S&S; The Stuff of Life, Karen Karbo, Bloomsbury. Motivational: Seeing Lessons, Tom Sullivan, John Wiley & Sons; There Are No Shortcuts, Rafe Esquith, Pantheon; The Creative Habit, Twyla Tharp, S&S; The Essential 55, Ron Clark, Hyperion; The Joy Diet, Martha Beck, Crown. Psychology: The Anxiety Book, Jonathan Davidson with Henry Dreher, Riverhead; Dante’s Path, Booney Gulino Schaub & Richard Schaub, Gotham Books; Einstein Never Used Flash Cards, Kathy Hirsh-Pasek & Friends, Rodale; The Emotional Energy Factor, Mira Kirshenbaum, Bantam; The New Brain, Richard Restak, Rodale. Relationships: Find a Husband After 35, Rachel Greenwald, Ballantine; Not “Just Friends”, Shirley P. Glass with Jean Coppock Staeheli, Free Press; Saving Beauty from the Beast, Vicky Cropmton & Ellen Zelda Kessner, Little, Brown; The Bully, the Bullied & the Bystander, Barbara Coloroso, HarperCollins; You Have to Say I’m Pretty, You’re My Mother, Stephanie Pierson & Phyllis Cohen, S&S. Spiritual: Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels, Random House; Not Fade Away, Laurence Shames & Peter Barton, Rodale; Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach, Bantam; Seeking Enlightenment, Nevada Barr, G.P Putnam’s; The Art of Happiness at Work, Dalai Lama & Howard Cutler, Riverhead. Wellness: Honoring the Medicine, Kenneth Cohen, Ballantine; The Macrobiotic Plan to Total Health, Micho Kushi & Alex Jack, Ballantine; The No Grain Diet, Dr. Joseph Mercola with Alison Rose Levy, Dutton; The Truth About Chronic Pain, Arthur Rosenfeld, Basic Books; Ultraprevention, Mark Hyman & Mark Liponis, Scribner.
For more information go to msnyc.org.
