People Roundup, December 2013

PEOPLE

Daniel Nayeri will join Workman on December 18 as Director of Children’s Publishing, succeeding Raquel Jaramillo who has been named Editor-at-Large. He has been Digital Editorial Director at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, prior to which he was an Editor at Clarion.

Flatiron Books has hired Liz Keenan as Associate Publisher, starting January 6. She is currently Executive Director of Publicity for Hudson Street Press and Plume. She will be responsible for planning and executing all marketing and publicity for new nonfiction line, which plans to begin publishing in January 2015.

The American Booksellers Association announced that Matthew Zoni has been named Manager of its ABC Children’s Group. Zoni served as Manager of Event Marketing and Business Development at Barnes & Noble for the past 11 and a half years.

Mark Landau has joined National Geographic Book Publishing Group as Director of Special Markets. He was formerly Sales Director, National Accounts at Publications International, Ltd.

Sarah Pekdemir has joined Crown as Senior Marketing Manager, Crown Trade. Jocelyn Cordova joins Crown Business on December 16th as Director of Marketing and Publicity, after spending the last eight years at Wiley as Associate Director of Publicity.

Michael Signorelli has joined Holt as Senior Editor, where he will focus on crime fiction while continuing to pursue a broad range of nonfiction. He had been an Editor at HarperCollins for over 8 years.

Sean McCarthy has left Sheldon Fogelman Agency to start his own agency, Sean McCarthy Literary Agency. He can be reached at sean@mccarthylit.com.

PROMOTIONS

At Penguin Random House, Nihar Malaviya has been promoted to EVP, Deputy Chief Operating Officer, reporting to Madeline McIntosh. He will continue with his existing duties overseeing strategic planning, analytics, and program development, while also adding direct oversight for the company’s combined corporate technology teams and for the Random House operations teams. At Crown, Chris Hart has been promoted to SVP, Director, Technology, and Sue Malone-Barber moves up to SVP, Director, Publishing Operations, both newly reporting to Malaviya. Alyssa Awe has been promoted to VP, Integration Director for North America. In addition, Chris Brand has been named Art Director for Crown, Hogarth, Broadway, and corporate identity.

At Vintage/Anchor, Russell Perreault has been promoted to VP, Executive Director of Publicity & Social Media, continuing to report to Anne Messitte. In addition, Kate Runde has been promoted to Director of Publicity. Andrea Robinson has been promoted from Associate Editor to Editor, and Mark Chiusano has been promoted from Editorial Assistant at Knopf to Assistant Editor for Vintage and Anchor; both will report to LuAnn Walther. Editorial Assistants, Emily Giglierano and Jocelyn Miller are being promoted to the position of Assistant Editor.

Sabila Khan has been promoted to Director of Subsidiary Rights for Dutton, Gotham, Blue Rider, Viking Studio, Hudson Street Press, Penguin, and Plume Originals.

Simon & Schuster has reorganized its adult production and manufacturing department. As a result, Karen Romano, Vice President, Production and Manufacturing, is leaving. Since 2003, she has been responsible for the suite of functions related to the production of their adult titles, from copyediting and design to purchasing and manufacturing. Nancy Singer, Director of Interior Design, will also be leaving. The reorganization also comes with new appointments: Irene Kheradi is now Vice President, Executive Managing Editor of Production and Copy Editing. Samantha Cohen is now Vice President of Design and Digital Content Development. Angela Hsiao is now Vice President of Demand Planning and Reprints. And Joe Bulger is Vice President of Client Management and Business Development.

At Macmillan, Antonio Pimento has been promoted to VP, Royalties. Pimento joined Macmillan in 2002 and has been the Director of Royalties since 2005. Connie Tom has been promoted to Manager, Subrights.

IN MEMORIAM

Co-founder of The New Press and longtime Editor in Chief and Managing Director of Pantheon, Andre Schiffrin died in Paris on Sunday from pancreatic cancer. He was 78. The NYT calls him “a publishing force for 50 years, whose passion for editorial independence produced shelves of serious books, a titanic collision with a conglomerate that forced him out to stem losses, and a late-in-life comeback as a nonprofit publisher.” And they certify in print a definition of Pantheon as “a Random House imprint where making money was never the main point.”