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Workman Publishing Company announced that Dan Reynolds has been appointed Chief Executive Officer. He will relocate to New York full-time on October 1, 2014. Carolan Workman continues in the role of Executive Chair of the Board and President, and Katie Workman is named VP of Strategic Marketing and Business Development. As CEO and president of the imprints Storey Publishing and Timber Press, Reynolds has been part of Workman Publishing since 2001.
Colleen Venable will join Workman Publishing on August 1 as Associate Art Director, Children’s Department. Previously she was senior designer at First Second Books. Scholastic announced the appointment of Netta Rabin as VP of Product Development for Klutz. She was Art Director and Editor at Workman.
Brenda Marsh has joined Abrams as VP, Business Development. She will continue to serve as Interim Associate Publisher until a Publisher is hired. She was previously at B&N and earlier, at HarperCollins.
Jeff Salane will be joining S&S Children’s Publishing as Executive Editor, effective August 25. Salane was previously at Scholastic. Hannah Buchsbaum has been promoted to Editor.
Lisa Yoskowitz has joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as Executive Editor. Previously she was Senior Editor at Disney-Hyperion.
Lisa Johnson has left Penguin where she’d worked for 23 years, most recently as VP, Associate Publisher Gotham/Avery.
When Ingram‘s acquisition of Perseus‘s distribution companies is completed, Legato Publishers Group will be merged into PGW, with founder Mark Suchomel leaving the company. The former President of IPG, Suchomel founded Legato in May 2013, and it operated as an affiliate of PGW.
Lance Fitzgerald will be joining The Crown Publishing Group on August 4 as VP, Director of Subsidiary Rights. Succeeding Fitzgerald at S&S is Marie Florio, who has been promoted to Director, Subsidiary Rights, overseeing rights for all books within the Simon & Schuster imprint as well as select Threshold titles. Linda Kaplan has left the Crown Publishing Group, where she was recently VP, Director of Subsidiary Rights. She may be reached at lindakaplan28@gmail.com.
Peter Brantley has moved to NYPL Director, Digital Library Applications at The New York Public Library. He was Director of the Bookserver Project at the Internet Archive.
Noah Ballard has joined Curtis Brown as a literary agent. He had previously been with Emma Sweeney Agency. He will continue to represent literary fiction, thrillers and narrative non-fiction.
Latoya Smith, formerly an editor at Grand Central Publishing, has been named Executive Editor of Romance at Samhain where she will be overseeing the publication of the erotic romance line. She worked previously at Kensington.
Jay Sacher has been named Senior Editor at Potter Style. Previously he was an Editor at Princeton Architectural Press.
Diane Gedymin has left Turner Publishing, where she was Executive Editor and Subsidiary Rights Director, to complete a contracted book and focus her efforts on her publishing consultant firm, The Publisher’s Desk. She can be reached at diane@thepubdesk.com.
Katie Salisbury has left Amazon Publishing, where she was Editor, to pursue other opportunities. She may be reached at katie.salisbury@gmail.com.
Jason Diamond announced via twitter that he’s leaving Flavorwire, where he was Literary Editor, and going to Men’s Journal.
Katie McHugh has left her post as Editor, Brand Development at Time Home Entertainment to become a freelance nonfiction editor. She can be reached at mchugh.katie@gmail.com.
Christina Rodriguez has left Hudson Street Press, where she was Associate Editor, to pursue an opportunity outside of the publishing industry. She can be reached at rodriguez.cv@gmail.com.
Scholastic has hired Lee Peters as SVP, Strategic Marketing for Scholastic Education, reporting to division president Margery Mayer. Most recently, he was VP of Strategic Marketing, North America for Pearson Education.
Penny Makras has joined HarperCollins as Senior Marketing Manager. Previously she was a Marketing Manager at Wiley.
PROMOTIONS AND CHANGES
Kelli Chipponeri has been promoted to Editorial Director, Children’s for Chronicle Books. Will Schrom has been promoted to National Accounts Manager, Barnes & Noble and Calendar Club. Stephanie Wong has been promoted to Lifestyle Marketing and Publicity Manager.
Riverhead Director of Publicity Jynne Martin will take on the additional role of Associate Publisher, joining Kate Stark and Catherine Lynch. Martin joined Riverhead in 2011.
At Abrams Artists Agency, David Doerrer has been named Director of Foreign Rights.
Ten Speed Press announced promotions: In the publicity and marketing departments, Lorraine Woodcheke has been named Marketing & Publicity Manager, Cookbooks; Natalie Mulford moves up to Marketing and Publicity Manager, Watson-Guptill and Amphoto Books. In the design department, Betsy Stromberg has been promoted to Senior Art Director and Chloe Rawlins moves up to Senior Design Manager. Kara Plikaitis has been named Senior Art Director and Ashley Lima joins as Art Director.
HarperCollins’ SVP Sales, Brian Grogan announced that Erin Gorham has been promoted to Director, Digital Accounts. Lindsey Kline has been promoted to Digital Sales Specialist reporting to Erin.
At Putnam, Katie McKee has been promoted to Senior Publicity Manager, while Elena Hershey moves up to Associate Publicist.
At Crown Publishing Group, Hanna Glidden has been promoted to Associate Managing Editor.
DULY NOTED
On June 30, Publishers Lunch tweeted that there is a delay in Perseus sale to Hachette and Ingram until, probably, the end of August.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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Aug 1 – 4
Society of Children’s Book Writers & Illustrators Summer Conference
Hyatt Regency Century Plaza, Los Angeles, CA
Aug 9 – 25
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Charlotte Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
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.
Sep 3 – 8
Moscow International Book Fair
Moscow, Russia
Sep 15 – 21
Brooklyn Book Festival
Borough Hall, Brooklyn, NY
Sep 19 – 21
NAIBA Fall Conference 2014
Hyatt Regency Crystal City at Reagan National Airport, Arlington, VA
Sep 26 – 28
Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Fall Show
Hotel Murano, Broadway, Tacoma, WA
Sep 30 – Oct 2
NEIBA Fall Conference
Providence, RI
Oct 1 – 3
LIBER 2014
Fira de Barcelona Gran Via, Barcelona, Spain
Oct 7 – 9
Brand Licensing Europe 2014
Hilton London Olympia Hotel, London, United Kingdom
Oct 8 – 12
Frankfurt Book Fair
Guest of Honour: Finland
Frankfurt, Germany
Oct 9 – 11
Mountains and Plains Independent Booksellers Association Conference
Denver, CO
Oct 9 – 12
New York Comic Con
Javits Center, New York, NY
Oct 14
Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2014
Announcement of the winner on 10/14/14.
Oct 21 – 22
Digital Kids Summit
San Francisco, CA
Oct 25 – 26
Texas Book Festival
Austin, TX
Oct 25 – 30
DMA 2014
San Diego Convention Center, West Harbor Drive, San Diego, CA
Nov 5 – 15
Sharjah International Book Fair
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Nov 6 – 9
World Fantasy Convention
Washington, DC
Nov 8
Twelfth International Conference on Books, Publishing and Libraries
Simmons College, Fenway, Boston, MA
Nov 13 – 16
Bouchercon Mystery Convention 2014
Long Beach, CA
Nov 13 – 16
Toronto Book Fair
Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, Canada
Nov 19 – 24
Salon du Livre de Montréal
Place Bonaventure, Montreal, QC, Canada
Nov 29 – Dec 7
Guadalajara International Book Fair
Expo Guadalajara, Avenida Mariano Otero, Verde Valle, Guadalajara, Mexico
