People Round-Up, Mid-April 2016

PEOPLE

Stacy Creamer joined Regan Arts as SVP, Executive Editor. She was most recently Executive Editor at Hachette Books.

Alaina Mauro is now Publishing Director at for Hachette’s James Patterson division. She was previously Digital Sales Account Manager at Penguin Random House. Krishan Trotman joined Hachette as Senior Editor. She was previously Senior Editor at Skyhorse Publishing.

Sarah Williams joined Penguin Random House as VP, Director of Strategy and Development, Special Markets. She was previously Executive Editor, Business Development at Chronicle. Jennifer Schuster joined Crown Archetype and Three Rivers Press as Executive Editor. She was previously Executive Editor at NAL/Berkley.

Amelia Possanza joined Flatiron Books as Senior Publicist. She was previously Publicist at Touchstone.

Erin Kottke launched Erin Kottke Public Relations. She was most recently Marketing and Publicity Director at Graywolf Press.

Diana Ventimiglia joined North Star Way as Editor. She was previously Editor at Sterling Publishing.

In children’s publishing, Bess Braswell joined HarperCollins Children’s as Senior Director of Marketing. She was previously Marketing Director at Scholastic. . . Cayla Rasi joined Random House Children’s as Digital Senior Marketing Manager. She was previously Social Media Communications Manager at Deep Focus.

Heather Jackson will join the David Black Agency in May as Agent. She was previously at Harmony.

Eli Bortz joined University of Notre Dame Press as Senior Acquisitions Editor. He was Acquisitions Editor at Vanderbilt University Press.

PROMOTIONS

Christina Pecorale was promoted to VP, Director of Sales for Simon & Schuster Children’s. Meredith Vilarello is now Associate Marketing Director at Touchstone.

Dominique Cimina is now VP, Executive Director of Publicity and Corporate Communications at Random House Children’s.

Hallie Patterson has moved from her position as Publicity Manager at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers to Publicity and Marketing Manager at Hachette Books and Black Dog & Levanthal.

Chronicle Books promoted Lynda Zuber Sassi to Director, National Specialty, Mass Market, Premium, and Licensing Sales and Molly Krauss to Senior Business Analyst.

Andy Hunter was promoted to Publisher at Lit Hub.

Macmillan promoted Caitlin Buckley to Director of Business Systems, Ebook Production.

Stephanie Fletcher was promoted to Culinary and Lifestyle Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Megan Fishmann was promoted to Director of Publicity and Marketing at Counterpoint Press.

Kari Yadro was promoted to Director of Custom Programs at Dark Horse Comics.

Brandi Lewis was promoted to Senior Marketing Manager at Howard Books.

DULY NOTED

Baker & Taylor and Bookmasters were sold to the Follett Corporation. B&T President and CEO George Coe will stay on as Follett Group President, Baker & Taylor and Follett School Solutions, reporting to Follett CEO Ray Griffith. Ken Fultz will stay on as General Manager of Bookmasters. Nader Qaimari was promoted to President, Follett School Solution, reporting to Coe.

Random House is restarting its One World imprint in Fall 2017 with Editor Chris Jackson as the VP, Publisher, and Editor-in-Chief. Jackson was previously Executive Editor at Spiegel & Grau. Additionaly, Random House announced the creation of the Lenny imprint, which will publish titles selected by Lena Dunham and her Lenny Letter newsletter Co-Creator Jenni Konner.

Ingram announced its new operating structure following its sale to Perseus Distribution. Ingram Chief Content Officer Phil Olilla will run the combined distribution businesses. Ingram Publisher Services VP and General Manager Mark Ouimet will run IPS and former Perseus subsidiaries Publishers Group West, Consortium, and Legato. Perseus SVP and Group Sales Director Sabrina McCarthy will continue to oversee Perseus Distribution. Ouimet and McCarthy will report directly to Olilla. Matty Goldberg, formerly President of Publishing, Client, and Sales Development at Perseus, will lead acquisitions strategies, reporting to Ouimet. Former Perseus VP of International Sales and Marketing Meredith Greenhouse will focus on growing distribution abroad and report to McCarthy. Keith Arsenault will be Sales Director for Canada, reporting to Greenhouse. Jeanne Emanuel, who was VP, Special Markets and Custom Publishing at Perseus, will lead a new shared services sales group overseeing field sales, gift and specialty, and national accounts. She will report to Shawn Everson, the Chief Commercial Officer of Ingram. Additionally, Emanuel will lead Gift and Specialty Sales, Elisa Cannon will lead Field Sales, and Mary Faria will lead Mass Segments. Cannon will also support indie sales for all distribution brands except Consortium and Ingram. Melissa Serdinsky is heading integration efforts for the digital units Constellation and CoreSource.