PEOPLE
Carrie Kania, Publisher of Harper Perennial, Harper Paperbacks, and It Books, will be leaving HarperCollins at the end of August to become an agent in London with Conville & Walsh. (See Promotions and Internal Changes.) Meanwhile, Leah Wasielewski announced that Katie O’Callaghan has joined the Harper imprint as Associate Director, Marketing. She was at Ballantine/Bantam Dell.
Rakesh Satyal, Senior Editor at HarperCollins, has left the company and may be reached at rakesh.satyal@gmail.com. Mark Landau, VP, Director of Custom Publishing, has also left and may be reached at mark.landau@rocketmail.com. In all, about forty people have left HC since June.
Pete McCarthy, VP Corporate Digital Marketing at Random House is leaving the company to join The Orchard as SVP, Marketing.
OverDrive announced that Brian Gurewitz, formerly President of Library Sales for Books on Tape, a division of Random House, Inc., has joined its team as Director of Content Sales.
Andrew Malkin has left Zinio where he was VP, Book Content, and may be reached at andrewrmalkin@yahoo.com
Julia Cheiffetz has been named Editorial Director of Amazon’s New York-based publishing imprint under Larry Kirshbaum. Cheiffetz was most recently Senior Editor at HarperCollins.
VP, Executive Editor, Bob Weil has been named Publisher of the Liveright imprint, which Norton has owned since 1974, and will hire his own staff, including a second editor, a publicist, and editorial assistants. As reported earlier, John Glusman, VP Executive Editor at Crown, has succeeded Star Lawrence, who has been made Editor-at-Large.
Heather Lazare, who was Editor and Publishing Manager of Crown Trade Paperbacks, has joined Touchstone as a Senior Editor, reporting to Editorial Director Sally Kim. Prior to Crown, she worked at the Sandra Dijkstra Agency.
Jason Pinter, who was formerly an editor at Three Rivers/Crown and St. Martin’s, and an agent at Waxman Literary, will become Senior Marketing Manager for Grove/Atlantic and the Mysterious Press imprint, which they are relaunching this fall. VP Associate Publisher Eric Price has left the company.
Brian Ulicky has moved from S&S, where he had worked with David Rosenthal, to Blue Rider Press/Penguin, where he will be Publicity Manager. . . . Andrea Walker has joined The Penguin Press as a Senior Editor. She has been at Reagan Arthur Books since 2009, prior to which she worked for five years in The New Yorker’s Books department.
Rachel Holtzman has left Gotham/Penguin to freelance, ghostwrite and edit. She may be reached at Holtzman.rachel@gmail.com
Ruta Rimas is joining the Atheneum and Margaret K. McElderry imprints as Associate Editor, reporting to Justin Chanda. She has spent the last three years at HarperCollins at the Balzer & Bray imprint.
Airie Stuart has left Palgrave Macmillan after seven years with the company, most recently as SVP and Publisher.
There were a number of layoffs at Kaplan, including Sheryl Stebbins, who may be reached at sherylstebbins@nyc.rr.com
Sarah Odedina, who has been with Bloomsbury Children’s since its founding, is leaving to become Managing Director and Publisher of a to-be-named children’s fiction list at Bonnier in the UK. Margaret Miller is leaving Bloomsbury Children’s US, where she was an editor, to pursue a graduate degree. Ann Treistman has left Skyhorse and may be reached at atreistman@gmail.com
Monika Krauss, head of the Abu Dhabi Book Fair, has left the organization. She may be reached at monikakrauss09@googlemail.com
Peter Phillips becomes SVP and GM of the Digital Media Group for Marvel, where he will build Marvel’s digital publishing, social networking, and online initiatives at Marvel.com. He was most recently EVP for LivePerson.
Robert O’Dell has been appointed as the President and General Manager of Jouve North America. He was most recently President of SPi, and previously at LexisNexis.
At Chronicle Books, Allison Elsby has been hired as Director, Distribution Client Services. She was formerly Director of Merchandising at Borders.
New additions to Bloomsbury Children’s include Laura Keefe, Associate Director of Digital and Trade Marketing. Most recently she was Online Publicity Manager at Little, Brown. And Kim Burns, Director of Trade and Digital Marketing, Children’s who most recently was the eBook Channel Manager at Macmillan. Also, Doug White, Trade Sales Operations Manager reporting to David Wightman, who was most recently National Account Manager at Diamond Book Distributors. Ryan Tozzi, Academic Operations Manager, reporting to Ilise Levine. Tozzi held Production management positions at The Princeton Review and Sterling.
Erin Edmison and Peter Harper have formed Edmison/Harper Literary Scouting, an international literary scouting agency. They can be reached at erin@edmisonharper.com and peter@edmisonharper.com
PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES
Jonathan Burnham, SVP, Publisher of the Harper Division, will assume responsibility for Harper Perennial, and Cal Morgan has been promoted to Senior Vice President and Publisher of It Books. In publicity, Gregory Henry and Anne Tate will move over to report to Tina Andreadis, VP, Director Publicity. Michael Signorelli, Editor, will join the Harper editorial team. Liate Stehlik assumes responsibility for the Harper paperbacks titles and the list will be combined with the Morrow Paperbacks imprint. Editor Stephanie Meyers moves over to the Morrow group, reporting to Jennifer Brehl, and Kendra Newton and Julia O’Halloran move to Seale Ballenger, VP, Director of Publicity. At HCSB, Caitlin McCaskey has been promoted from Assistant Manager to Manager and Wade Lucas has been promoted from Assistant to Associate.
Melissa Possick, Random House Trade Paperbacks Associate Publisher, has moved over to the newly-created position of Director, Marketing P Partnerships, reporting to Sanyu Dillon and working from home. Current VP, Associate Publisher for Mass Market Gina Wachtel at Del Rey/Spectra & Digital will expand her role to VP, Mass Market & Trade Paperbacks, reporting to Jane von Mehren in her new role with Random House Trade Paperbacks and will continue to report to Libby McGuire on the Mass Market list.
Maggie Richards has been promoted to Deputy Publisher at Henry Holt, in addition to her current responsibilities as VP, Sales and Marketing.
At Norton, Jane Searle will become Director of College Production, and Eric Pier-Hocking will become Senior Production Manager.
Scholastic Media, a division of Scholastic Inc., announced that Lynne Karppi has been promoted to Director of Creative and Product Development for the Consumer Products division. She is responsible for working with licensees and partners around the world on the design and development of Scholastic Media’s full portfolio of products, packaging and merchandising; she joined the company in 2004.
Barnes & Noble has appointed Miwa Messer as Director of their Discover Great New Writers program. She joined BN in 1998 as Author Promotions Manager.
Kate Lloyd has been promoted to Assistant Director of publicity at Scribner.
Andrea Colvin has been promoted to Director of Publishing Operations for Open Road Integrated Media.
UPCOMING EVENTS
The Center for Fiction has posted the following note: Are you looking to slim down your book collection? We can make it easy to donate your used books to our nonprofit bookstore. We’re sending a van to pick up boxes of donated books on the UWS next Monday, August 1, so if you have any that you’d like us to take off your hands, please call us at (212) 755-6710. If you have lots of books to donate and are not located on the UWS, please contact our Head Librarian, Brenda, at brenda@centerforfiction.org to discuss other delivery options.
Meanwhile, The Center’s Annual Gala will take place on December 6, and honors Nan Graham.
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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 www.bisg.org/events/book-conference.php.
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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 to http://bit.ly/q7OJI4
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CLMP’s annual Spelling Bee takes place on Monday, October 24, at the Highline Ballroom in the Standard Hotel. For tickets, details and contributions, go to www.CLMP.org/Bee. . . .
Words Without Borders has just announced that its annual benefit will take place on November 14. For details go to: http://wordswithoutborders.org/
