PEOPLE
John Glusman, who was Executive Editor at Crown, has been named VP andEditor-in-Chief at Norton, replacing Star Lawrence, who will remain Vice Chairman and become Editor at Large.
Fodor Publisher Tim Jarrell is leaving the company, as a result of a reorganization announced by Nina von Moltke, VP Digital Publishing Development. He may be contacted at timjarrellny@gmail.com. Amanda d’Acierno has been promoted to VP, Publisher Fodor’s and continues to run RH Audio Group and Living Language. Arabella Bowen is being promoted to Executive Director, Editorial and Content Strategy.
Eamon Dolan, Editor in Chief at the Penguin Press, moved to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, just as Scott Moyers returned to the Press. He has his own eponymous imprint, and reports to Publisher Bruce Nichols. Dolan had been Editor in Chief at HMH before moving to Penguin in 2007.
Guideposts Books has eliminated the position of Director of Marketing and Publicity, currently held by Carl Raymond, who may be reached at CRaymondNY@aol.com. Raymond was previously at S&S, DK and HarperCollins in a variety of positions.
Earlier in June Borders announced via an SEC filing that EVP Chief Merchandising Officer Michele Cloutier had resigned.
Steve Kasdin has left Amazon, where he has worked on the Kindle, and is moving back to the New York area. He can be reached at stevekasdin@gmail.com. Meanwhile Katie Finch has been named head of publicity at Amazon Publishing. Finch was most recently at Weinstein Books, where she was Director of Marketing and Publicity.
Sandy McCormick Hill resigned from her position as Director of Magazine Rights at Reader’s Digest in late May and may be reached at smchill@gmail.com.
Samantha Goldman has re-joined S&S’s Customer Driven Publishing department as Manager of CDP sales. She was most recently a National Account Manager at New Video. She replaces Stephanie Swane who left for Becker & Mayer! earlier this year.
In children’s, Scholastic has named Gayley Avery Director of Licensed Publishing. She was Director of Marketing at DC Comics. Mike Merrill has joined the company as Director of Digital Publishing. He was most recently at Kaplan Bar Review and reports to Lori Benton. . . . . Joy Dallenegra-Sanger will be leaving Macmillan at the end of July, where she was SVP Marketing Children’s. Kristin Ostby has joined Albert Whitman as Senior Editor. Otsby, who moved to Chicago in 2010, was previously Editor with the Penguin Young Readers Group in New York. . . . Jessica Shoffel joined Penguin Children’s as a publicist. She was previously at RH Children’s Books. . . . Also at Penguin Children’s, Nico Medina returns to Grosset & Dunlap/PSS! as Senior Managing Editor after working at Egmont USA.
Dorothee Walliser, VP Publisher of Filipacchi Publishing, will be leaving Hachette following its merger with Hearst on July 15, Jacqueline Deval will continue as VP Publisher of Books.
Gabe Habash has joined Publishers Weekly as an editor in the News department. Habash recently graduated from NYU with a MFA in creative writing.
Lauren Shekari, Bloomsbury’s Sub Rights Manager, has left to join the Susan Golomb Agency as Sub Rights Director.
Lauren Naefe has joined Open Road as Senior Digital Marketing Manager, reporting to Rachel Chou. She was most recently at the National School Climate Council. Allison Myers Underwood will report to Naefe as Marketing Manager. Previously she was at Knopf Doubleday. Justin Mitchell has joined Open Road as Assistant Marketing Manager reporting to Laura De Silva. He was in the Associates Program at S&S.
F+W Media announced that Jamie Wilkinson has joined the company as Group Publisher/Community Leader, Automotive/Outdoors. Previously she was Senior Director of Operations and Business Development at ESPN. Paul Dinas joins as Business Editor. He was most recently a senior editor at Penguin’s Alpha Books. Simone Parham joins as Director of Special Markets.
Justina Batchelor has joined Touchstone as a publicist. She was at Crown.
Rachel Zugschwert has been named Marketing Manager at Consortium Sales & Distribution. She was at S&S’s Atria Books imprint, where she had the same title.
Holger Volland was named head of the Conferences / Creative Industries division of the Frankfurt Book Fair. He is also responsible for Frankfurt SPARKS, the digital initiative of the Frankfurt Book Fair, which was launched in 2010.
Sarah Dickman is leaving the Nicholas Ellison Agency after seven years as Director of Foreign Rights and a literary agent, to join Odyl, a social media marketing startup. Chelsea Lindman assumes the title, while continuing to work on domestic rights.
Elisa Petrini has left Inkwell, where she was an agent and may be reached at petrini.elisa@gmail.com.
PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES
Leah Wasielewski has been promoted to Sr. Director of Marketing for Harper, Harper Business and Broadside Books.
Skip Dye was named V.P., Library, Academic, and RH Publisher Services. He adds these responsibilities to his current role at RHPS.
Coffee House Press founder and publisher Allan Kornblum will retire from the company, and Associate Publisher Chris Fischbach succeeds him as Publisher. Kornblum founded the press in 1973.
At Workman, Raquel Jaramillo has been promoted to both Editorial Director and Creative Director of children’s publishing, as well as acting Creative Director for the overall Workman imprint.
In Children’s, Paul Crichton has been promoted to VP, Director of Publicity for the S&S Children’s Publishing. He had been Director of Publicity since May 2006.
Bonnie Bader, who has been Editor-in-Chief of Grosset/PSS!, has taken the role of Editor-in-Chief for Warne and Early Readers at Penguin.
Molly O’Neill has been promoted to Editor of Katherine Tegen Books. She was associate editor and joined HarperCollins in 2006.
RH Children’s announced a number of promotions in its production department. Mary Ellen Owens has been promoted to production manager, while Shameiza Ally and Natalia Dextre move up to Production Supervisor. Claribel Vasquez, who was in corporate reprints, has joined also as Production supervisor.
DULY NOTED
Whitney Frick, an associate editor at Scribner, is the first recipient of the Ashmead Award, given to an emerging editor in the publishing industry. As part of the award Frick will attend the Yale Publishing Course between July 24-29. A roundtable discussion with the creators of the award is available on Publishing Trendsetter.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
BISG has issued its calendar for the fiscal 2011-2012 year. Highlights include:
Sept 20—Annual Meeting of Members
May 3—Making Information Pay 2012 Conference
A full calendar of meetings is available at on their website.
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On October 10 at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the new Publishers Launch “E-books Around the World” conference, which looks at the digital landscape in major territories around the world, takes place. It is followed, on October 11, by a half day conference, “Children’s Publishing Goes Digital: New Markets, Players, and Platforms.” Both events will look at how the digital marketplace will change in the coming year, and what publishers need to know to prepare for it. For details, go here.
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CLMP’s annual fundraising Spelling Bee takes place on Monday, October 24, at the Highline Ballroom in the Standard Hotel. For tickets, details and contributions, go to the event’s website.
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Words Without Borders has just announced that its annual benefit will take place on November 14. For details go to their website.
IN MEMORIAM
Longtime General Counsel of Random House, Inc. until 2002, Harriette Dorsen, 68, died on June 5. A memorial in Cornwall will be announced later.
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Zev Birger, 85, long time Director of the Jerusalem Book Fair, died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Jerusalem on June 6.
