People Round-Up, Mid-March 2015

PEOPLE

Andrew Solomon joined PEN American Center as President after being elected for a two-year term.

Karen Fink is now Deputy Director of Publicity at Grand Central Publishing. She was most recently Associate Director of Publicity at Random House.

Colleen Lawrie joined PublicAffairs as Senior Editor. She was previously Editor at HarperCollins. Tony Forde is now Publicist. He was previously Associate Publicist at Twelve.

Sara Weiss joined Ballantine Bantam Dell as Senior Editor. Formerly, she was at Grand Central Publishing where she was recently promoted to Editor.

Stephanie Davis joined Clarkson Potter and Harmony as Marketing Manager. Previously, she was Assistant Marketing Manager at St. Martin’s Press.

In children’s publishing, Barry Harbaugh joined Little A as Senior Editor. Previously, he was Editor at Harper. . . Barbara Cho joined Little Bee Books as Production Manager. Previously, she was Production Supervisor at Random House Children’s.

Robin Barnett is now Director of Public Relations, Nonfiction Trade at Zondervan. Previously, she was Senior Publicist at Baker Publishing.

Adia Colar joined HarperOne as Publicity Manager. She was previously Senior Publicist at New Harbinger.

Flatiron Books hired Steven Boriack as Senior Publicist and Molly Fonseca as Marketing Manager. Boriack was previously Publicist at HarperCollins and Fonseca was Coordinator, International Sales at Penguin Random House.

At literary agencies, David Patterson is now Agent at the Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, where he will continue to represent his current clients. Previously, he was Agent at Foundry Literary + Media. . . Linda Camacho joined Prospect Agency as Agent. She was previously Marketing Associate at Random House. . . Chelsea Heller joined Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as Subsidiary Rights Director. She was formerly Subsidiary Rights Associate at Writers House. . . Amy Williams resigned from McCormick & Williams to start her own agency, The Williams Company. McCormick & Williams will be renamed McCormick Literary and continue under David McCormick.

Ginia Hairston will rejoin Waterbrook Multnomah as VP, Director of Marketing in April. She was most recently VP, Marketing at David C Cook after holding various positions at Waterbrook Multnomah. With the separation of Convergent Books from Waterbrook Multnomah, Carie Freimuth is leaving her position as VP, President, Associate Publisher of Waterbrook Multnomah, Convergent, and Image Books at the end of April. Her position will be eliminated. She can be reached at cariefreimuth@yahoo.com. Senior Editor Gary Jansen will transition to Convergent. Publicist Katie Moore will leave the company at the end of the year. Additionally at Waterbrook Multnomah, Laura Barker was promoted to VP, Editorial Director, Debbie Mitchell to VP, Director of Operations, Beverly Rykerd to Publicity Director, and Susan Tjaden to Editor.

Tim MacDonald is now Chief Advancement Officer at David C. Cook. Previously, he was President of The Dexter Group.

Lil Copan joined Wm. B. Eerdmans as Senior Acquisitions Editor, General Trade. She was formerly Senior Acquisitions Editor at Abingdon Press.

Rachel Small is now Publicist at Europa Editions. Formerly, she was Translation Quality Manager at Cultural Services of the French Embassy.

Jandra Sutton joined PR by the Book as Digital Media Coordinator. She was previously Marketing Director at Turner Publishing Company.

Anne-Elisa Schaffer joined Rightscenter as Sales and Business Development Manager. Previously, she was in the Book Department Coordinator at William Morris Endeavor.

IPR License hired Stacey Riley as Transaction Manager. She was formerly Permissions Assistant at Nature Publishing Group.

PROMOTIONS

Kelly Ragland was promoted to Associate Publisher at Minotaur in addition to her responsibilities as Editorial Director.

Kara Watson was promoted to Editor and Associate Marketing Director at Scribner.

Penguin Random House promoted Lucy Silag to Director, Book Country.

Jeanenne Ray was promoted to Acquisitions Editor, Management and Leadership at Wiley.

Kids Can Press promoted Yasmin Uçar and Stacey Roderick to Senior Editors.

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Scholastic and Universal reached a three-year, first-look deal to develop live-action features films together. Deborah Forte will develop and produce the productions through her new company, Silvertongue Films, which will have offices in New York and Los Angeles. She was previously President of Scholastic Media.

Peter Lang Children’s Trust is selling the Peter Lang Academic Publishing Group in a management buyout deal. The management team includes Claude Béglé as Chairman of the Board, Kelly Shergill as CEO and Deputy Chairman, Vanessa Weber as CFO, and Abdurahman Kaymaz as Head of Warehouse and Logistics. The deal is expected to close by mid-2015.

Mark Polizzotti, translator of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano and Publications Director of the Metropolitan Museum, will give a four-day workshop on literary translations at Yale University from June 18^th to June 21^st.