PEOPLE
Andrew Weber was named Global Trade Chief Operating Officer at Macmillan. He was most recently at Bonobos.com and had been at Random House as VP Ops and Technology. He is taking on many of the duties of Brian Napack, who stepped down as President of Macmillan in December 2011 (and then joined Providence Equity Partners). Weber reports to John Sargent.
Egmont USA has hired Literary Agent Andrea Cascardi from the Transatlantic Literary Agency for the new combined role of Managing Director and Publisher, effective immediately. Previous she was Associate Publishing Director at Random House Children’s for the Knopf and Crown imprints. Current publisher Elizabeth Law is leaving after five years with the company. In a separate announcement, Fiona Kenshole will join the TLA, representing children’s illustrators and authors. She was most recently VP of Development Acquisition at Laika Inc.
Allison Devlin has been appointed VP Marketing Director at Running Press, succeeding Craig Herman, who may be reached at craigmichaelherman@gmail.com. She has been Marketing Director at Crown, overseeing Potter Craft, Watson Guptill and Martha Stewart books, and had previously been at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, HarperCollins Children’s Books and DK Publishing. Devlin will divide her time between the Running Press office in Philadelphia and the Perseus office in NYC.
Random House Publishing Group announced that it has decentralized trade paperback publishing, with each imprint publishing its own paperback list, and that SVP Publisher Trade Paperbacks, Jane von Mehren, has left the company. She may be reached at janevonmehren@yahoo.com
Hyperion’s EiC Elisabeth Dyssegaard announced that Ruth Pomerance is joining the company as Senior Editor effective January 28, focusing on acquisition and development of new stories and author talent that will translate across the Disney/ABC Television Group businesses. Most recently, Pomerance was Executive Producer for the feature film adaptation of Judy Blume’s novel Tiger Eyes and a film consultant.
The Hachette Book Group announced it has completed the restructuring of its sales operation that began last October, appointing David Epstein as VP of Sales, Young Readers. Epstein was most recently Director of National Accounts for Disney. He will report to Chris Murphy, SVP of Retail Sales.
Jennifer Levesque, Abrams‘ Editorial Director, Adult Trade, has left the company and may be reached at jennifer.levesque@gmail.com
Brad Parsons has been hired for the new position of Director of Culinary Marketing at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, starting January 28. He was previously Associate Director, Online Marketing at Grand Central Publishing and had been Senior Books Editor at Amazon. Anne Hoppe is joining HMH/Clarion Books as Senior Executive Editor. She was previously Executive Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, where she spent 18 years.
Barbara Lalicki , VP Editorial Director at HarperCollins Children’s Books, will retire at the end of January. Lalicki came to Harper in 1999 during the merger with William Morrow, where she had been publisher of Morrow Junior Books.
Andrea Rogoff joined Picador as a publicist on January 8. She was most recently an Associate Publicist at S & S.
PROMOTIONS
Jamie Raab has been promoted to President and Publisher of Grand Central Publishing; she had previously been EVP and Publisher.
Jen Bergstrom, Editor-in-Chief of Gallery Books, has been promoted to VP, Publisher, continuing to report to Group Publisher Louise Burke.
Doris Cooper was promoted to VP Associate Publisher at Clarkson Potter, from VP Editorial Director.
Cassie Jones has been promoted to VP, Executive Editor and Editorial Director for William Morrow Cookbooks. She started at HarperCollins in 1999 and has been with William Morrow for nearly seven years. Tina Andreadis has been promoted to SVP, Publicity and Maya Ziv has been promoted to Editor, also at HarperCollins.
Agustina Casal has been promoted to the newly created position of Director, Constellation Global Marketing & Communications. She joined Perseus in 2007.
Christopher Dufault has been promoted to VP, Director, International Marketing and British Commonwealth Sales at Random House.
Simon & Schuster has made some changes to its Subsidiary Rights department to align with last year’s restructuring into four divisions. Lance Fitzgerald will oversee subsidiary rights for Simon & Schuster, Free Press and Threshold, while Paul O’Halloran will have responsibility for Touchstone and Gallery/Pocket in addition to Scribner. Finally, Lisa Keim will maintain responsibility for Atria.
IN MEMORIAM
Peter Carson, Publisher and Editor, died on January 9, 2013 at age 74. Carson was Editor-in-Chief of Penguin’s adult publishing division throughout the 1980s and 1990s, overseeing the creation of the Viking imprint in the UK and the separation of Penguin’s adult publishing into its current Press and General divisions.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Jan 25 – 29
ALA Midwinter Meeting
Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA
Feb 1 – 2
SCBWI Annual Winter Conference
Hyatt Regency Grand Central, New York, NY
Feb 10 – 13
American International Toy Fair
Javits Center, New York, NY
Feb 10 – 15
Jerusalem Book Fair 2013
Jerusalem International Convention Center, Binyaney Ha’ooma, Israel
Feb 12 – 14
O’Reilly Tools of Change for Publishing Conference
New York, NY
Feb 13 – 16
College Art Association Annual Conference
Hilton New York, New York, NY
Feb 21 – 24
Vilnius Book Fair
Vilnius International Book Fair / Baltic Book Fair
Lithuanian Exhibition and Congress Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
Feb 22 – 26
Campus Market Expo
Kansas City Convention Center, Kansas City, MO
Feb 23 – 25
ABA Winter Institute
Kansas City, MO
Mar 2 – 5
International Home and Housewares Show
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Mar 8 – 12
South by Southwest Interactive
Austin, TX
Mar 11
Books for a Better Life
The Times Center, New York, NY
Mar 19 – 24
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Mar 21 – 24
Toyko International Anime Fair
Tokyo Big Sight, Toyko, Japan
Mar 22 – 25
Salon du Livre (Paris Book Fair)
Guests of Honor: Romania and Barcelona
Porte de Versailles, Paris, France
Mar 25 – 28
Bologna Children’s Book Fair
Bologna Fair Centre, Bologna, Italy
Mar 28 – Apr 8
Bangkok International Book Fair
Bangkok, Thailand
Apr 12
New York Antiquarian Book Fair
The Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
Apr 13 – 15
Museum Store Association Conference and Expo
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
Apr 14
LBF Digital Minds Conference 2013
Queen Elizabeth II Conference Center, London, UK
Apr 15 – 17
London Book Fair
Earls Court, London, UK
Apr 25 – May 13
Buenos Aires International Book Fair
Guest of Honor: Amsterdam
Buenos Aires, Argentina
May 1 – 5
Geneva International Book Fair
Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
May 16 – 19
Bookworld Prague 2013
Guest of Honor: Slovakia
Prague-Holesovice Exhibition Grounds, Prague, Czech Republic
May 29 – Jun 1
BookExpo America
Javits Center, New York, NY
