People Roundup, May 2013

PEOPLE

Brendan Cahill has joined Random House, Inc. as Vice President, Corporate Projects, working with departments across the company on a variety of internal and externally-directed endeavors, beginning with digital-partnership development opportunities. He was previously CEO of NatureShare, and before that VP and Publisher at Open Road, and an Editor at Running Press, Grove/Atlantic, and Gotham Books.

W. Ralph Eubanks has announced that he will be leaving his post as the Director of Publishing at Library of Congress to become Editor of the Virginia Quarterly Review

SVP of Hachette Digital & Audio Maja Thomas is leaving the company after 22 years with Time Warner and then HBG, “for the next exciting chapter of her career.” She has led Hachette Audio since 2000 and Hachette Digital since 2005, chief strategist for HBG of the Bookish website. Though she will be consulting for Hachette until the end of the year and reachable via that email address, she will also be at majathomas@gmail.com

Courtney Hodell is leaving FSG, where she was Executive Editor. She can be reached at Courtney.hodell@gmail.com.

Margaret Coffee has joined Egmont USA as Sales and Marketing Director. Most recently she was VP of Sales at Albert Whitman, and was previously at Scholastic for more than 16 years. Katie Halata moves up to Sales and Marketing Manager at Egmont.

Michael Cairns is joining Publishing Technology as COO of their Online Solutions division, succeeding Louise Russell and reporting to George Lossius. Most recently, Cairns has been a consultant and served as Chief Revenue Officer for SharedBook, focused on their Academic Pub platform.

Deputy Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), Angela Bole, will become Executive Director of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) in July, remaining based in New York. Current Executive Director Florrie Binford Kichler, is retiring from the post in June.

Christian Trimmer will be joining S&S Books For Young Readers as Senior Editor. He has worked for the Walt Disney Company for nearly 13 years.

Ken Brooks, Cengage SVP, Global Production & Manufacturing Services, has left the company to restart his operations and product development consulting firm, Treadwell Media Group.

Julia Kenny is joining Dunow Carlson & Lerner as an Agent, rejoining her recent colleague Eleanor Jackson. Kenny was at Markson Thoma–from which Geri Thoma, Jackson, Laney Katz Becker and Kenny have all departed since early March.

Maddie Caldwell has joined Knopf, reporting to Director of Media Relations Paul Bogaards. She was at Weed Literary for the past year.

Jennifer Corcoran will join Little, Brown Children’s on May 6 as Director of Publicity. She was most recently Publicity Director at Disney Publishing Worldwide.

Julie Just, who became an Agent at Janklow & Nesbit in late 2010 after working at the NYT Book Review as Children’s Book Editor, is moving to Pippin Properties.

PROMOTIONS

Angela James has been promoted from Executive Editor to Editorial Director at Carina Press/Harlequin. Adrienne Macintosh has been promoted to Editor, Harlequin Series; Karen Reid moves up to Associate Editor, Harlequin Superromance, and Charles Griesman has been promoted to Editor, Harlequin Desire. In addition, Reka Rubin has been promoted to Senior Manager, Subsidiary Rights, while Amy Wilkins moves up to the Manager, Online Engagement.

Shawn Nicholls announced the promotion of Dana Trombley to Senior Manager, Digital Marketing at HarperCollins, focusing on campaigns for their genre fiction books including Avon and Voyager, but also overseeing the marketing of all of the digital first titles that fall under the Impulse lines.

At S&S Children’s, Nicole Russo has been promoted from Associate Director of Publicity to Deputy Publicity Director; she has been with the company since 2005. Lydia Finn has been promoted from Associate Publicist to Publicist. Christina Abram has been promoted from Production Manager to Senior Production Manager, overseeing Little Simon, Simon Spotlight, and Product Development. Rodd Bailey has been promoted to Production Manager for Children’s Reprints, managing Aladdin, Atheneum, Beach Lane, MKM, Paula Wiseman Books and S&S BFYR imprints.

Also at S&S, Kristin Dwyer has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity for Pocket Books imprint, Gallery Books.

At Dutton, Carrie Swetonic has been promoted to Director of Marketing, and Bernadette Blanco joins as Assistant Marketing Manager. Swetonic has been with Dutton since 2007, and Blanco was most recently at NYU Press. At Abbeville Press, Joan Strasbaugh has been named Senior Editor. Previously she was Publisher of Jones Books in Madison, WI. In addition, Diana Griffin has been promoted to Marketing and Publicity Manager.