People Round-Up, Early November 2014

PEOPLE

Claudia Reuter was named the head of the HMH Labs, a new digital initiative at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Previously, she was CEO of SchoolChapters.

Jason Prince is now Marketing Operations Manager at St. Martin’s Press. Previously, he was VP, Publisher and VP of Sales & Marketing at Sterling Publishing.

In the UK, Sally Dwyer joined Quarto Group in the newly created position of Group Director of People. She will be responsible for Quarto’s human resources strategy across its international businesses. She was previously Managing Director at MLC Consulting.

George Bick joined Regan Arts as Sales Director. In the past, he was SVP, Sales at HarperCollins and William Morrow.

Lauren Zalaznick joined the Penguin Random House Board of Directors. She currently publishes a newsletter titled The LZ Sunday Paper.

Additionally at Penguin, Megan Sullivan is now Sales Representative for New England. Previously, she was Publicity Manager at David R. Godine. Caitlin O’Shaughnessy will move from Associate Editor at Viking to Marketing Manager at Penguin Press. Additionally, Tara Singh Carlson joined Putnam as Senior Editor. She will continue to acquire trade paperback originals for Penguin while acquiring hardcover titles for Putnam.

Angelin Borsics rejoined Clarkson Potter as Editor. She worked there from 2005-2013 and then joined West Elm as Copywriter.

Alyson Forbes joined Hachette Book Group as Ad Director after leaving her position as Deputy Director of Creative Services at Random House. Additionally, Nancy Chen has joined as Marketing Strategy Associate. Previously, she was Senior SEO and Social Specialist at Path Interactive.

In children’s publishing, Nellie Kurtzman is now Director, Integrated Marketing at HarperCollins Children’s Books. Previously, she was VP, Marketing for Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Additionally, Cheryl Rozier joined HarperCollins Children’s Books as Director of Integrated Marketing, Advertising and Promotion. Previously, she was at Hachette Book Group as Advertising Director for the adult and children’s divisions . . . Christine Labov joined Random House Children’s Books as Agent Director, Random House Speakers Bureau . . . Jodie Hockensmith joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as Associate Director of Publicity. Most recently, she was Associate Publicity Manager at Random House Children’s Books. Additionally, Alex Maurer joined S&S as Manager, Children’s Custom & Proprietary Sales. Previously, she was Senior Coordinator, Custom & Proprietary Sales at Penguin Group . . . Natasha Gilmore joined Publishers Weekly as Associate Children’s Book Editor. Previously, she was Bookseller and Assistant Buyer at Brookline Booksmith . . . Paige Hazzan joined Scholastic as an Associate Editor after working as an Associate Editor at HarperCollins. . . Patricia Ocampo will be Interim Managing Editor of Annick Press as of November 10^th. Previously, she was Agent at Transatlantic Agency . . . Rob Wall joined Little Bee Books as Senior Designer. Formerly, he was Designer at Blue Apple Books . . . Nathalie Le Du is now Senior Editor, Children’s Group at Workman Publishing. She was previously Editor at Kumon Workbooks . . . Stefanie Hoffman joined Little, Brown Children’s as Marketing Manager. Previously, she was Marketing Associate at Harper Children’s.

In religious publishing, Doug Lockhart joined HarperCollins Christian Publishing as Senior VP, Bible Marketing and Outreach. Formerly, he was CEO at Biblica . . . Linda Bruner joined Upper Room Books as Multimedia Marketing Manager . . . Previously, she was the Events Sales Manager at United Methodist Publishing House . . . Brian Thomasson joined Baker Publishing Group as Senior Acquisitions Editor. Formerly, he was Senior Editor at NavPress . . . Dan Rich announced his retirement as Chief Publishing Officer of David C. Cook in May 2015. Meanwhile, Tim Close joined the company as Senior Director of Marketing, Trade. Formerly, he was President of CrowdScribed, LLC.

At literary agencies, Linda Scalissi joined 3 Seas Literary Agency as Agent . . . Rich Green joined the media rights department of ICM. Previously, he was at CAA.

Juliana Horbachevsky joined Abrams as Publicist. She was formerly Associate Publicist at Gallery Books.

Morgan Doremus is now Publicity and Marketing Manager for Sourcebooks Casablanca. Previously, she was Marketing Manager at Hachette’s Forever imprint.

Christine Kopprasch has joined Flatiron Books as Senior Editor. Previously, she was Editor at Crown Publishing Group.

Lauren Castner is now Associate Sales Manager, Special Sales at Ryland, Peters & Small and CICO Books. Previously, she was Gift Sales Associate at Workman Publishing.

Morgan Elwell joined Kensington as Communications & Marketing Manager, Mystery and Thrillers. Formerly, she produced Virginia This Morning, a TV program affiliated with CBS. Additionally, Mala Bhattacharjee has joined Kensington as Communications & Marketing Manager, Dafina and Women’s Fiction. She was previously Features Editor at RT Book Reviews.

Peg O’Donnell joined Lonely Planet as Senior Director of Marketing. Previously, she was Account Manager at Publishers Group West.

In university publishing, Dennis Langlois joined Princeton University Press as Chief Information Officer. Previously, he was Chief Information Officer at The Savitz Organization . . . Jeremy Grainger joined Rutgers University Press as Sales and Marketing Director. Previously, he was Sales and Marketing Manager for the photography publisher Aperture Foundation . . . Derek Krissoff joined University of West Virginia Press as Director. Previously, he was Editor-in-Chief at University of Nebraska Press . . . Eric Schwartz joined Columbia University Press as Editorial Director after leaving his job as Senior Editor of Sociology and Cognitive Sciences at Princeton University Press . . . John Loudon joined Yale University Press as Consulting Editor-At-Large. Previously, he was Executive Editor at HarperOne.

PROMOTIONS, Etc.

Margot Schupf was promoted to Publisher at Time Home Entertainment, Inc. Previously she was VP Associate Publisher. She has been with the company since June.

Michelle Aielli joined Hachette as Executive Director, Publicity. She was formerly Director of Publicity at Little, Brown and Company.

PEN Center USA promoted Michelle Meyering to Executive Director. Previously, she was Director of Program and Events.

Mike Storrings was promoted to VP, Creative Director of St. Martin’s Press while David Rotstein was promoted to Executive Art Director, in addition to his current title of Art Director of Minotaur. Additionally, Olga Grlic was promoted to Executive Art Director of Griffin and SMP, Mass Market.

Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group promoted Molly Bouillette to Associate Director, Publicity; Allison Verost to VP, Publicity; and Mary Van Akin to Senior Publicist.

At Random House Children’s Books, Kathy Dunn has become Publicist-at-Large; Casey Floyd was promoted to Associate Director, Publicity;and Lydia Finn to Senior Publicist.

Also at Penguin Random House, Christopher Dufault was promoted to VP, Director of Penguin Hardcover Sales Development.

Simon & Schuster promoted Jennifer Grojean to Director, National Accounts for Special Markets and Bianca Johnson to Manager, Adult Custom & Proprietary Sales.

Tom Dean was promoted to VP of Marketing for Nonfiction Trade at Zondervan.

Hallie Stubbins and Lucy Randall were promoted to Editor at Oxford University Press.

At HarperCollins Children’s Books, Karen Chaplin was promoted to Senior Editor. Meanwhile, Alice Jerman and Christopher Hernandez were promoted to Associate Editors.

Kerri Buckley was promoted to Senior Editor at Harlequin’s digital imprint Carina Press.

Rita Ostrova is now Customer Relations & Channeling Marketing Coordinator at John Wiley and Sons in addition to being International Rights Assistant.

DULY NOTED

Robin Freestone announced that he will step down as Chief Financial Officer at Pearson before the end of 2015 after eight years in the position.

Simon & SchusterDirector of Permissions Agnes Fisher announced her retirement after 51 years with the company.

Literary Agent David Vigliano sold his company Vigliano Associates to Y Entertainment Group. Vigliano will continue as the head of the company, which is now called AGI Vigliano Literary LLC.

Doubleday and Vintage Books have teamed up with movie company Blumhouse Productions to create Blumhouse Books. The multi-format publishing program will be headed by Nick Simonds, who was previously Acquisitions Editor of Atria Books.