PEOPLE
Ira Silverberg has been named Literature Director at the National Endowment for the Arts. He was most recently an agent at Sterling Lord Literistic.
Angus Killick will be joining Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group as VP and Associate Publisher, reporting to Jon Yaged, President of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group (MCPG). In this newly-created position, Killick will coordinate MCPG’s programs and lead the children’s marketing team, as well as pursuing business development opportunities for the division. Killick was at Kingfisher, a division of Pan Macmillan, where he was the Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing.
Knopf and Pantheon Publishing Director Pat Johnson has decided to take early retirement, according to Knopf President Tony Chirico. As of January, Chris Gillespie is being promoted to SVP, Associate Publisher for Knopf, Pantheon and Schocken, with Knopf Creative Marketing Director Anne-Lise Spitzer and Doubleday Director, Sales Management and Planning Beth Meister also taking on work with Pantheon and Schocken. Meister will also be adding Knopf to her portfolio, continuing to report to Suzanne Herz for Doubleday titles, and reporting to Gillespie for the other three imprints.
Meanwhile, HarperCollins announced that it has acquired the rights to the majority of titles published by Newmarket Press. As part of the agreement, President, Publisher and Founder Esther Margolis, will join the HarperCollins It Books imprint as an Executive Editor. Harry Burton, who had been Publicity Director for Newmarket may be reached at harry.burton@earthlink.net .
Elise Howard, formerly SVP, Associate Publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books, has gone to Algonquin Books, which will start publishing young adult and middle grade books by the end of 2012.
Earlier in October, HarperCollins Chief Digital Officer Charlie Redmayne left the company to become CEO of Pottermore. Redmayne first joined HarperCollins UK in 2008 as Group Digital Director, and was promoted to CDO in 2009.
Nina Hoffman has been named Senior Director, Department of Publishing, at the American Society of Hematology, and may be reached at nhoffman@hematology.org. She was previously President of National Geographic Books.
Karyn Marcus joins S&S as a Senior Editor, focusing on non-fiction and suspense fiction. She spent the past three years as an Editor at Thomas Dunne Books.
Digital hires this month include:
Michael Cairns has joined SharedBook, as Chief Revenue Officer overseeing AcademicPub. He may be reached at michael@sharedbook.com.
Jeff Dodes has been appointed to the new position of EVP, Marketing and Digital Media Strategy for St. Martin’s. Most recently, he headed the Marketing and Digital Media department for Sony Music’s Jive Label Group.
Dani Nadel has been hired as Chief Digital Marketing Officer for Scholastic book clubs and e-commerce, reporting to Judy Newman. She was most recently President at Publicis Modem. Tom Burke has been promoted to Chief E-Commerce Officer, Book Clubs and E-Commerce.
Christopher Davis has joined Open Road as EVP and COO, reporting to Jane Friedman. He was previously the SVP of Business Operations for AOL/HuffPo.
John Groton left his position of VP, Sales for National Book Network and has joined Innodata Isogen as Account Executive, eBook Publishing, developing new business with trade book publishers. He is based in Stonington, CT and may be reached at jgroton@innodata.com.
Nicole Kuritsky has been named Senior Manager Emerging and Mobile Media for Rodale. She was most recently Mobile Product Developer at Wolters Kluwer.
Elsewhere. . . Liz Hartman has joined The Book Report Network in an at-large position as Director of Advertising and Promotion.
Eileen Lawrence has joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as Executive Director of Marketing. Previously, she was Senior Executive Director of Advertising, Promotion and Creative services at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group. Steve Scott has also joined the company as Franchise, Licensing and Media Tie-in Art Director. He was most recently at Scholastic as Art Director, Paperbacks. Sasha Illingworth, who has joined as Senior Art Director, had been an art director at HarperCollins.
Earlier in October, Hachette Book Group eliminated 11 positions in its Sales & Marketing department, including Norm Kraus and two other reps. In a statement the company said the layoffs came about “after an extensive review of our overall sales and marketing structure to identify effective ways to meet the changing needs of our account base…”
Kerrie Loyd has joined Soho Press as Director of Marketing and Sales. She was most recently Imprint Marketing Manager at S&S’s Pocket Books and Gallery Books imprints.
Diane Levinson has joined Princeton Architectural Press and Chronicle Books as a Publicist. She will handle art & design titles from both McEvoy Group publishers. She was most recently at Hal Leonard Performing Arts Publishing Group.
Caroline Marks has been named CEO of Bookish, in which Hachette, S&S and Penguin are investors, and which was scheduled to launch late summer–replacing Paulo Lemgruber, who has left the company. Marks was formerly General Manager of Digital Parents and Lifestyle Platforms at Meredith.
Barbara Jones has joined Henry Holt as Editor. Most recently, she had been Editorial Director of Hyperion and Voice.
Ethan Nosowsky has been named Editorial Director of McSweeney’s. He spent the past four years as Editor-at-Large for Graywolf.
Robert Rooney has been named Executive Director of NAIPR, succeeding Sean Concannon, who has joined Sonnet Media. Rooney was formerly at Jessica Kingsley.
Publishers Lunch reported that Movable Type Literary Group and Artists and Artisans have formed two operating units: Movable Type Management, with Jason Allen Ashlock as President, and a performance division, Movable Type Media with Artists and Artisans’ Adam Chromy as President. Jamie Brenner, Brianne Mulligan and Michele Matrisciani (who was most recently Editorial Director of Health Communications) will serve as Senior Literary Managers.
Matt Weiland, Senior Editor at Ecco/HarperCollins, will move to W. W. Norton as Senior Editor in the Trade department.
Adam Wilson joined Gallery Books as Editor, reporting to Jen Bergstrom. He has been at Harlequin, working on its Teen, Mira, and Luna lines.
RoyaltyShare has hired Marcus Holloway as President and COO, and the company announced that it has received a new round of investments. Additionally, it is launching a new Enterprise Services division focused on the needs of large entertainment and media companies, headed by President Steve Grady.
Jeremy Tescher has been appointed National Sales Manager at The Overlook Press. He was previously National Accounts Manager, Paperbacks, at Penguin.
Alessandra Lusardi has joined Rizzoli as Senior Editor for its Ex Libris imprint, with a Fall 2012 launch date. She was an Editor at Viking for the past nine years. In addition, Rizzoli Senior Editor Kathleen Jayes will also acquire for Ex Libris.
PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES
Nancy Miller has been promoted from Executive Editor at Bloomsbury to Editor-in-Chief at Bloomsbury USA. She will now be reporting to Publishing Director George Gibson, and has worked for, among other houses, HarperCollins and Random House.
At Basic Books, Lara Heimert has been promoted to Editorial and Publishing Director. In her new role she will play a larger role in the presentation and publication of the imprint’s books while freeing Basic Book Group publisher John Sherer to concentrate on the new Perseus digital marketing initiatives and to focus on the efforts at Westview Press and Nation Books.
Rica Allannic has been promoted to Executive Editor, Clarkson Potter, and Kate Tyler has been promoted to Publicity Director, Crown Illustrated, which comprises the Clarkson Potter, Potter Craft, Potter Style, Watson-Guptill, and Amphoto Books imprints. Kim Small has also been named Publicity Director for Potter Style, in addition to directing publicity for Potter Craft, Watson-Guptill, and Amphoto Books.
In Scholastic’s Trade division, Editorial Director David Levithan has been promoted to Publisher and Editorial Director. Also, Charisse Meloto moves up to Executive Director of Publicity for print and digital publishing; Bess Braswell is now Director of Marketing; Victoria Tisch is Director of Marketing Operations; Maria Dominguez is Executive Editor and Manager, Scholastic en español; and Paul Banks moves up to Executive Art Director, Licensed Publishing and School Market Originals.
At Scribner, Katie Monaghan has been promoted to Deputy Director of Publicity.
Elda Rotor is being promoted to Associate Publisher of Penguin Classics, while continuing to serve as Editorial Director.
At Little, Brown Children’s, both Connie Hsu and Kate Sullivan have been promoted to the position of Editor.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Carolyn Reidy, CEO of S&S, will be honored at the 25th anniversary Gala for Goddard Riverside on November 7, 2011, at 583 Park Avenue in New York. For details, go to www.goddard.org/BookFairGala.html.
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The Center for Fiction honors Nan Graham at its gala on December 6 at the University Club. Jeannette Walls is the MC and Don DeLillo will present the award. Stephen King and Susan Moldow are honorary chairs. For details go to www.centerforfiction.org.
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Macaulay Honors College at CUNY has launched a lecture series featuring writers from the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. The upcoming author in the series will be Paul Hendrickson, who will discuss his forthcoming book on November 2nd at 7:00 pm. The series is free and open to the public. Go to http://macaulay.cuny.edu.
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Words Without Borders has announced that its annual benefit, this year entitled “A Celebration of Caribbean Literature,” will take place on November 14 at the Bohemian National Hall. Madison Smartt Bell, Tiphanie Yanique, and other authors will read from their works. For details go to: http://wordswithoutborders.org.
