PEOPLE
Ronald D. Boire was named as the CEO, Retail Business of Barnes & Noble, effective in September. He is succeeding Michael Huseby, who will become Executive Chairman of Barnes & Noble Education. Boire is currently President and CEO of Sears Canada.
Ken Brooks joined Macmillan Higher Education as COO. He was SVP, Global Supply Chain Management at McGraw-Hill Education.
Mike Harpley is now Editorial Director at Atlantic Books. He was Editorial Director at Oneworld Publications.
Kristen McLean joined Nielsen as Director of New Business Development in the Book/Entertainment division. She is the Founder and CEO of the publishing research and analytics company, Bookigee Inc.
Kelly Bowen joined Arcadia Publishing and the History Press as Director of Marketing and Corporate Communications. She was previously Publicity Director at Algonquin.
At Crown Publishing Group, Ryan DeShon is now Front End Web Developer, Abbe Wright is Editorial Lead, Read It Forward, and Ariel Norwood is Community and Social Media Manager, Tastebook. DeShon was previously Senior Designer and Web Developer at Catapult, Wright was Contributing Editor at Glamour, and Norwood was Content & Social Media Strategist at Viyet.
Amy Cleary joined Chronicle Books as Marketing & Publicity Manager, Food and Drink. She was Store Manager at Omnivore Books.
Carla Bejan-Negru joined Sourcebooks as Editor, Gift and Calendars. She was previously Operations Product Manager at Publications International, Ltd.
Thea Kuticka is now Sales Director at Microcosm Publisher. She was Business Development Director at Craigmore Creations.
Colleen Andrews joined Bloomsbury Children’s as Designer. She was Production Editor at Oxford University Press. Additionally at Bloomsbury, Ashley Poston joined as Marketing Designer.
At literary agencies, ICM announced a “succession plan” with The Helen Brann Agency, in which Helen Brann will continue to represent her clients along with ICM. . . Pete Knapp joined New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc. as Agent. . . Kate Garrick is now Agent at The Karpfinger Agency. She is bringing over her clients from DeFiore and Company, where she was most recently Agent. . . DongWon Song joined Howard Morhaim Literary Agency as Agent. He was most recently Chief Product Officer at Zola Books.
Jim Lance joined Cornell University Press as Senior Acquisitions Editor for Social Sciences. He was Editor and Publisher at Kumarian Press.
PROMOTIONS
Emily Meehan was named Director, Editor-in-Chief, and Associate Publisher of Disney Publishing Worldwide. Stephanie Lurie will become Editor-at-Large of Disney-Hyperion. Zan Schneider is now Director, Managing Editorial for Disney Publishing Worldwide.
Christina Quintero was promoted to Executive Art Director, Licensing and Intellectual Property at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.
Barnes & Noble promoted Jamie Carey from Chief Merchandising Officer to CFO.
At William Morrow, Kaitlin Harri was promoted to Marketing Director. Miranda Indrigo was promoted to Manager, Author Engagement at Harlequin. At Katherine Tegen Books, Melissa Miller was promoted to Senior Editor.
Annsley Rosner was promoted to VP, Associate Publisher at Crown, Hogarth, Archetype, Tim Duggan Books, Broadway Books, and Three Rivers Press. Rachel Rokicki was promoted to Director of Publicity at Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway Books and Dyana Messina to Associate Director of Publicity at those same imprints. Natasha Martin was promoted to Publicist at Clarkson Potter and Lauren Cook to Senior Publicist at Harmony Books. Additionally at Random House, Dawn Ryan was promoted to Managing Editor at Alfred A. Knopf Books for Young Readers and Penguin Young Readers promoted Lindsay Boggs to Senior Publicist.
Dee Mortensen is now Editorial Director at Indiana University Press.
Perseus Books Group promoted Edison Garcia to Senior Sales Manager, Europe and the Middle East.
Katie Bassel is now Senior Publicist at St. Martin’s Press.
Colin Whitlow was promoted to VP, Business Development and Operations at Start Publishing.
Sourcebooks promoted Aubrey Poole to Editor for its Jabberwocky and Fire imprints.
Suzie Townsend was promoted to Director of Literary Services at New Leaf Literary & Media, Inc.
DULY NOTED
The Monacelli Press launched its applied arts imprint Monacelli Studios.
Man Group CEO Emmanuel “Manny” Roman joined the Penguin Random House Board of Directors.
Tim McGuire, former Production Head at Norton and Simon & Schuster, was recently named Chairman of the Sag Harbor Zoning Board of Appeals. McGuire also serves on the Sag Harbor Community Housing Trust. He can be reached at tmcguire@nyc.rr.com.
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Harlem Book Fair
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Jul 20-24
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Jul 22-25
Romance Writers of America Conference
New York, NY
Jul 31-Aug 2
South African Book Fair 2015
Newton, South Africa
Jul 31-Aug 3
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Sep 1-2
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St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Malta
