People Round-Up, Early February 2016

PEOPLE

F+W hired Tom Beusse as CEO. Beusse was formerly Founder and President of the USA Today Sports Media Group.

Margaret Milnes is now Marketing Director at Globe Pequot Press. She was most recently Senior Director, Brand Management at Running Press.

Cindy Ratzlaff has joined Simon & Schuster imprint North Star Way as Director of Brand Development. She was previously President of her agency Brand New Brand You Inc.

Becky Brasington Clark will become the Head of the Library of Congress Publishing Office in March. She was previously Director of Marketing at Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kaiulani Kaneta joined Penguin Random House as Associate Director, High School Marketing in its academic marketing department. Philip Stamper-Halpin joined PRH as Manager, Publishing Development and Author Platforms. He was Managing Editor at Kingston University Press. Lucy Silag is now Assistant Director of Publicity at Random House. She was previously Director of Book Country.

Janelle Gonzalez joined Little, Brown as Brand Analyst for Brand, Licensed, and Media Tie-In publishing. She most recently worked in the consumer products licensing department of the National Hockey League.

Jodi Hammerworld joined Chronicle Books as Associate Distribution Client Account Manager.

Porter Anderson is now Editor of Publishing Perspectives, taking over for Ed Nawotka, who has run the publication since 2009. Anderson was Associate Editor at FutureBooks.

At agencies, Maggie Riggs launched her own boutique agency for literary fiction, The Riggs Agency. She was Editor at Viking. . . Berta Treitl joined Renaissance Literary and Talent as Literary Agent. . . Stephanie Fretwell-Hill will join Red Fox Literary as Agent. She was Editor at Peachtree Publishers. . . Chris Lupo joined Chernin Entertainment as Book Scout. He was previously Senior Literary Scout at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. . . Christina Clifford joined Union Literary as Agent. She was previously an Agent at Aitken Alexander.

Chelsey Emmelhainz will join Skyhorse on February 8^th as Editor for the Skyhorse and Arcade imprints.

Julie Wenersbach joined The Texas Book Festival as Literary Director. She was most recently Marketing Director at BookPeople.

Kat Meyer joined the Book Industry Study Group as Director, Content Development and Acquisition. Previously, she was Director, Events and Community Engagement at Publishers Weekly.

Dave Thornton joined David C Cook as VP, Strategic Partnerships. He was previously CEO at Gospel Light.

David Nuss joined Alternative Comics as Associate Publisher.

Caitlin Ellis joined BookBub as Account Manager. She was formerly Manager, Domestic Rights at HarperCollins.

PROMOTIONS

Anthony Goff was promoted to SVP, Content Development and Audio Publisher at Hachette. He will also join the executive management board. At Little, Brown, Ned Rust is now VP, James Patterson Publishing Director, Jenny Bak is Senior Editor, jimmy patterson books, and Kapo Ng is Senior Art Director for James Patterson.

Penguin Random House promoted John Clinton to Senior Director, Digital Video, Andrea Bachofen to Associate Director, Publishing Development and Author Platforms, and Susan Livingston to SVP, Strategic Business Planning, US Digital Product Development, Audio, and Fodor’s. Jennifer Rubins was promoted to Senior Marketing Manager, Audio, Books on Tape, and Living Language, Catherine Bucaria to Acquisitions Editor, Audio and Large Print, and Nicole Morano to Senior Publicist, Audio and Living Language.

Alison Stoltzfus was promoted to Publishing Director of the Princeton Review, Now I’m Reading, and Sylvan Learning imprints at Random House Children’s. Jordan Rodman was promoted to Publicist at Knopf and Pantheon. Brianna Yamashita was promoted to Associate Publisher, Executive Director of Publicity and Marketing at Tarcher Perigee and Sarah Hutson to VP, Publicity at Penguin Press.

At Crown Publishing Group, David Drake was promoted to EVP in addition to his role as Deputy Publisher, Katie Ziga to SVP, Director, Finance and Business, Kate Rados was promoted to VP, Community Development and Julia Pavia to Executive Editor.

Atria promoted Ariele Fredman to Assistant Director of Publicity and Kathryn Santora to Senior Publicist.

Abrams promoted Elisa Gonzalez to Executive Director of Trade Sales, Miriam Tribble to Editorial Director, Calendars, Sachyn Mitel to Senior Sales and Business Analyst, and Devin Grosz to Designer. Additionally, Jennifer Brunn is now Executive Director, Publicity, Samantha Weiner is now Editor, and Laura Dozier is now Senior Editor.

Mark Taylor was promoted to CEO and Chairman of the Board of Tyndale House and Jeff Johnson to President and COO.

Rowman & Littlefield promoted Oliver Gadsby to the newly created role of President of its Academic and Professional division.

Brooke Johnson was promoted to Lead Designer at Chronicle Books. Additionally, Steve Mockus is now Executive Editor.

Greenleaf Book Group promoted Corrin Foster to Director of Marketing and Branding.

Lindsay Black will become Publisher of Children’s Resources at David C Cook. She was Director of Adult and Teen Product at Standard Publishing, which was acquired by David C Cook.

Michelle Dougherty was promoted to Customer Service and Order Entry Manager at Bookmasters.

DULY NOTED

ABA’s Winter Institute will be in Minneapolis next year from January 27^th to January 30^th.

Quarto completed its acquisition of The Harvard Common Press. HCP will become an imprint of Quarto, where Dan Rosenberg continues in his role as Director. HCP President and Publisher Bruce Shaw and Associate Publisher Adam Salomone will no longer have daily operational responsibilities but will remain in advisory roles.

Barnes & Noble announced an exclusive partnership with Sourcebooks’ customized Put Me in the Story platform.