PEOPLE
Tara Catogge has been named Vice President, Sales Director at Quarto Publishing Group USA (previously Quayside); she was previously Senior Vice President, Marketing and Inventory at Readerlink.
Shimul Tolia has been named President of Bonnier Publishing‘s newly created New York office. She was Editorial Director, Sandy Creek at Sterling Publishing.
David Boyle, SVP, Consumer Insight for HarperCollins is moving to the BBC Worldwide Brands team as EVP of Insight.
Patsy Jones has moved to Hachette Nashville as VP Marketing; she was VP Sales & Marketing for books at Anderson Merchandisers.
Casey McIntyre will join Razorbill on March 5 in the new position of Associate Publisher. She was most recently Publicity Manager at Harper Children’s Books.
Dreamworks has announced it is launching its own imprint separate from Simon & Schuster, and headed by Emma Whittard, who was most recently at Disney Worldwide Pulishing.
Michael Selleck, Simon & Schuster‘s EVP Sales & Marketing, announced that Michael Carley has decided to retire after 34 years at Simon & Schuster. He was most recently Sales Manager for Amazon.com.
Also at S&S, Reka Simonsen will be joining Atheneum Books for Young Readers as Executive Editor, reporting to Justin Chanda. She begins March 10th and was recently Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Regan Arts has announced Ron Hogan will be joining as Editor, acquiring both fiction and non-fiction, with more announcements expected. Ron has been a Contributing Editor for Shelf Awareness.
Beth Ineson has been appointed to the new role of Executive Director, Book Marketing, Sales, and Operations at Boston Common Press. Most recently, she was Head of Field Sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She will oversee expansion of the marketing and distribution of efforts of the Cook’s Illustrated, America’s Test Kitchen, and Cook’s Country cookbooks.
Esther Margolis has left HarperCollins after two years as Executive Editor. She is setting up her own “publishing and media venture to consult, agent, package, and market fiction and nonfiction books, including cross-media projects in the film and entertainment area.” Newmarket Press was founded by her in 1981 and acquired by HarperCollins in 2011. She may be reached at esther@esthermargolis.com
Scottie Bowditch joined Macmillan as Director of the Macmillan Speakers Bureau on February 24. Previously she was Director of School and Library Marketing for the Penguin Young Readers Group. Janet Rasche joined Macmillan in the newly created position of VP, Operations Planning, , after working at startup MediaRadar.
Joy Aquilino is now Acquisitions Editor at Quayside. She was most recently Executive Editor at Sixth & Spring.
Scholastic has appointed Heather Cassano to the newly created position of Chief Experience Officer; she was previously at Pearson.
Sara Sargent is joining Simon Pulse as Editor, after working for the Balzer & Bray imprint at HarperCollins Children’s Books. Prior to her time at HarperCollins, she worked at Waxman Leavell Literary Agency.
Sharon Fantera, Editorial Director of Bookscan, has left the company.
Margot Atwell is now Publishing Project Specialist at Kickstarter. She was Associate Publisher at Beaufort Books and has been freelancing for the past year.
Megan Wilson has left her position as Media Specialist & Account Executive at Krupp Kommunications to join Rubenstein Public Relations as Associate Vice President.
PROMOTIONS & CHANGES
Sanj Kharbanda has been promoted to SVP, Digital Markets at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
At Ballantine Bantam Dell, Tracy Devine has been promoted to Executive Editor.
Michael Barrs has been promoted to Marketing Director, It Books at HarperCollins.
Abrams has announced the following promotions: Lindy Humphreys to Senior Director, Digital Assets and Technology; Laura Mihalick to Manager, Publicity and Marketing, Children’s Division; Erin Hotchkiss to Associate Director, Marketing, Adult division; Jessica O’Neil to Operations Manager.
Mary Lee Donovan has been promoted to Editorial Director at Candlewick.
Kate Nintzel has been promoted to Executive Editor at William Morrow; she began as an Editorial Assistant in 2003.
At Tarcher/Penguin, Brianna Yamashita has been promoted to Executive Director, Marketing & Publicity, and Andrew Yackira moves up to Associate Editor.
At Gotham/Avery, Lindsay Gordon has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity.
Stephanie Sirabian has been promoted to Marketing Operations Manager at Grand Central.
Mitchell Ivers has been promoted to VP, Editorial Director of Threshold Editions.
Also at S&S, Kayley Hoffman has been promoted to Production Editor in Managing Editorial. She will manage titles for both Simon Pulse and Aladdin and reports directly to Katherine Devendorf.
At Inkwell Literary Management, Allison Hunter and Lauren Smythe have both been promoted to Agent.
Emma Sector will be moving over to the Aladdin imprint as Editorial Assistant after serving as Marketing Assistant for the Aladdin/Pulse and Simon Spotlight/Little Simon groups.
West Coast promotions:
At Chronicle Books, Ali Presley has been promoted to Associate Director, Online Marketing.
At Ten Speed Press, Kristin Casemore has been promoted to Publicity Director.
At becker&mayer!, Dana Youlin has been promoted to Editorial Manager, and Delia Greve has been promoted to Senior Editor.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Mar 7 – 9
The Great American Bargain Book Show (GABBS)
AmericasMart, Atlanta, GA
Mar 7 – 11
South by Southwest Interactive Festival
Austin, TX
Mar 15 – 18
International Home and Housewares Show
Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL
Mar 19 – 23
Virginia Festival of the Book
Charlottesville, VA
Mar 24 – 25
FIPP 7th Digital Innovators’ Summit
Deutsch Telecom Center, Berlin
Mar 28 – Apr 7
Bangkok International Book Fair
Bangkok, Thailand
Apr 2 – 4
State of Maryland International Reading Council (SoMIRAC) Conference
Hunt Valley Inn, Baltimore, MD
Apr 7
Digital Minds Conference
London, England
Apr 8 – 10
The London Book Fair
Earls Court Exhibition Centre, London, England
Apr 11 – 14
Museum Store Association Conference and Expo
Houston, TX
Apr 12 – 13
LA Festival of the Book
USC Campus, Los Angeles, CA
Apr 30 – May 5
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Apr 30 – May 4
Geneva International Book Fair
Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland
May 7 – 9
Playcon
Westin Kierland Resort & Spa, Scottsdale, AZ
May 9 – 12
International Reading Association Annual Convention
Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA
May 12 – 14
Worldwide Media Marketplace 2014
Bangkok, Thailand
May 15 – 18
Book World Prague
Guest of Honour: Hungary
Palace of Industry, Prague Exhibition Grounds
May 29
BISG’s Making Information Pay
Co-located for the first time with IDPF Digital Book 2014 at Book Expo America
Javits Center, New York, NY
May 29 – 31
BookExpo America (BEA)
Javits Center, New York, NY
Jun 2 – 6
CUNY Publishing Institute 2014
CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, New York, NY
Jun 8 – 10
Dust or Magic App Camp
The fifth annual children’s app design institute
Marconi Conference Center, Marshall, CA
Jun 12 – 14
16th National Museum Publishing Seminar
Boston Park Plaza Hotel & Towers, Boston, MA
Jun 22 – 25
International Christian Retail Show 2014
Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta, GA
Jul 2 – 5
Tokyo International Book Fair
Tokyo, Japan
Jul 23 – 26
Romance Writers of America Conference
San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter& Marriott Riverwalk, San Antonio, TX
Aug 27 – 31
Beijing International Book Fair
Guest of Honor: Turkey
Beijing, China
Aug 28 – Sep 7
São Paulo Book Fair
São Paulo, Brazil
Aug 30
National Book Festival
Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, D.C.
Oct 1 – 3
LIBER 2014
Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain
Oct 8 – 12
Frankfurt Book Fair
Guest of Honour: Finland
Frankfurt, Germany
