PEOPLE
Random House has announced a multi-faceted book deal with Dave Zinczenko, formerly EVP, Editor-in-Chief of Men’s Health and General Manager of the Healthy Living Group and Rodale Books at Rodale, which includes a 3-book publishing deal with Ballantine, an imprint Zinc Ink within the Random House Publishing Group and a distribution deal for branded titles produced by his packaging company Galvanized Brands in association with American Media and others. Zinc Ink will be headed up jointly by Galvanized COO Stephen Perrine (formerly Publisher at Rodale Books) and BBD Publisher Libby McGuire.
As reported in Publishers Lunch, Vaughn Andrews will join Workman Publishing as Creative Director for the Workman imprint on April 22. Most recently a Freelance Designer, he worked for 26 years at Harcourt, including serving as Executive Art Director and Creative Director. Raquel Jaramillo, who has been acting Creative Director for two years, will return full time to her position as Director of Children’s Publishing.
Deb Futter has been named Publisher of Twelve in addition to her role as VP, Editor-in-Chief of Grand Central Publishing. As a result, Twelve Publisher Cary Goldstein has decided to pursue other interests. Cary joined Twelve at its inception, seven years ago.
Sam Tanenhaus has stepped down from his role as New York Times Book Review Editor to become Writer at Large. He is replaced by Pamela Paul, the Features Editor at the Book Review, whom Tanenhaus hired as Children’s Book Editor in 2011.
Maha Khalil has joined the Crown Publishing Group as the Marketing Director for Clarkson Potter, Potter Style, Potter Craft, Watson-Guptill and Amphoto. She joins Crown from Hyperion, where she was most recently the Director of Sales.
Judy Courtade is leaving her position as Associate Director of Client Services at Perseus Distribution and can be reached at judy@tcourtade.com
Eric Nelson, most recently Executive Editor at Wiley, has joined the Susan Rabiner Literary Agency as an Agent.
Laney Katz Becker has joined Lippincott Massie McQuilkin as an Agent. Previously, she was at Markson Thoma and before that, Folio Literary Management.
Tad Floridis has joined Zola Books as Director of International Business Development, with an initial mandate to take the company into the UK and British Commonwealth markets. Floridis was previously Co-founder and Associate Publisher of Canongate US.
Jhanteigh Kupihea will join Atria as Editor on April 22. Previously she was Associate Editor at NAL.
Lisa Vanterpool has joined InkWell Management as its Public Relations and Social Media Strategist; she worked previously for Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. Monika Woods has also joined InkWell as Assistant Literary Agent to Kimberly Witherspoon, who previously worked at Trident Media Group.
PROMOTIONS
For the Potter group of imprints at Crown, Allison Renzulli has been promoted to Senior Marketing Manager, Carly Gorga has been promoted to Associate Marketing Manager, and Kevin Sweeting has been promoted to Marketing Associate.
At Abrams, David Blatty has been promoted to Director of Managing Editorial, Dervla Kelly moves up to Senior Editor, Laura Dozier has been promoted to Editor, and Samantha Weiner moves up to Assistant Editor.
Meg Cassidy has been promoted to Publicity Manager at Free Press; she joined the publicity department in August 2011.
IN MEMORIAM
Workman Publishing Company announced the death of its founder, Peter Workman, at the age of 74 from cancer. He died on April 7, 2013, at home in New York. He left his wife of fifty-one years, Carolan Raskin Workman; their two daughters, Katie and Elizabeth; their sons-in-law, Gary Freilich and Mark Williams; and four grandchildren: Jack, Charlie, Madeline, and Charlotte.
A memorial service for longtime Knopf vice president and senior editor Ashbel Green will be held in New York at Cooper Union on Thursday, April 25th at 5:00 pm in the Great Hall. Green, who started at Knopf in 1964, died last September at the age of 84.
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Apr 25 – May 13
Buenos Aires International Book Fair
Guest of Honor: Amsterdam
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Apr 29 – May 5
PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature
New York, NY
May 1
29th Annual Literacy Partners Evening of Readings and Gala Dinner Dance
Cipriani 42nd Street, New York, NY
May 1 – 5
Geneva International Book Fair
Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
May 13
Children’s Choice Book Awards Gala
The Liberty Theater, New York, NY
May 16 – 19
Bookworld Prague 2013
Guest of Honor: Slovakia
Prague-Holesovice Exhibition Grounds, Prague, Czech Republic
May 19 – 22
National Stationery Show
Javits Center, New York, NY
May 29
BEA Bloggers at BookExpo America
Javits Center, New York, NY
May 29
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May 29
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Jun 27 – Jul 2
ALA Annual Conference and Exhibition
Chicago, IL
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Tokyo Big Sight, Japan
Jul 10 – 14
Southampton Writers Conference, Session 1
Stony Brook Southampton, Southampton, NY
Jul 14 – 26
Yale Publishing Course: Magazine/Digital (Jul 14 – 19)
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Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Singapore
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Beijing, China
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Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
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CIANA Remainder & Promotional Book Fair
The Business Design Centre, Islington Green, London
Sep 21 – 22
National Book Festival
“Books that Shaped the World”
National Mall, Washington, DC
Sep 23 – 25
39th Annual FIPP World Magazine Conference
Hilton Cavalieri Hotel, Rome, Italy
Sep 23 – 25
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NY Marriott Marquis, New York, NY
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