People Round-Up, Early June 2016

PEOPLE

At Penguin Random House, Windy Dorrestyn is now Director of Marketing at Ten Speed Press. She was previously Senior Merchandiser at Old Navy. Additionally, Lisa Beech is now Assistant Director of Publicity at WaterBrook & Multnomah. She was Associate Director of Publicity at David C Cook.

Rachel Fershleiser will join Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in late June as the Executive Director of Audience Development. She was previously Director of Publisher Outreach at Tumblr.

In children’s publishing: Kate Keating joined Random House Children’s as Director of Digital Marketing. She was Director of Social Media at L’Oreal USA. . . Emily Hutton joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as Sales Manager. She was National Accounts Manager at Macmillan Children’s. . . At Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Becky Munich is now Associate Art Director and Karina Granda joined as Senior Designer. Munich was Associate Art Director at HarperCollins Children’s and Granda was Designer at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers.

Maris Kreizman is leaving her position as Publishing Outreach Lead at Kickstarter.

Dark Horse VP of Trade Sales Michael Martens will leave the company at the end of August.

Faith Black Ross is now Acquisitions Editor at Crooked Lane Press. She was most recently Acquiring Editor at Severn House.

Alexandra Brown joined Chronicle Books as Marketing and Publicity Manager, Lifestyle. Scott Haney is now Human Resources Manager.

Shane White joined Sourcebooks as Business Development Manager, Special Markets. He was National Sales Manager at Harvest House Publishers.

At university presses, Scott Ditchik is now Editorial Director at Yale University Press. Previously, he was Group Publisher for Social Science and Executive Editor for Economics and Finance at Princeton University Press. . . John Tryneski is retiring from his position as Executive Editor for Political Science and Law at University of Chicago Press after four decades. . . Linda Bathgate will join the University Press of Florida as Chief and Deputy Director in July. She is currently Publisher in Communication at Routledge.

IN-HOUSE CHANGES

Open Road Integrated Media Co-Founder Jane Friedman will transition to Chairman of the Board and Executive Publisher. Paul Slavin will be her successor as CEO.

Luke Dempsey has moved from his position as Executive Editor at HarperOne to Executive Editor at Harper. HarperCollins Children’s promoted Maggie Searcy to Associate Art Director, Ad Promo Design. At Harper Christian, Jerri Helms was promoted to Senior Director, Digital Marketing Coordinator. Jess Hillman was promoted to VP, Marketing for Church, Academic, Reference, and Reflective Books at Zondervan.

Brian Ulicky was promoted to Director of Publicity at Blue Rider and Plume and Milena Brown to Senior Publicist. Kayleigh George has moved from her position as Senior Marketing Manager at Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan and Broadway to Associate Marketing Director at Blue Rider and Plume. Beverly Rykerd was promoted to VP, Director of Publicity at Waterbrook & Multnomah. Random House Children’s promoted Alison Impey to Senior Art Director, Jason Zamajtuk to Art Director and Media Specialist, Catherine Mucciardi to Assistant Art Director, Ray Shappel to Senior Designer and Lauren Morgan to Subsidiary Rights Coordinator. Additionally, Joseph Scalora has moved from Del Rey to Associate Marketing Director, Events Strategist at the Children’s imprint.

Simon & Schuster Children’s promoted Dorothy Gribbin to Managing Editorial Director, Deane Norton to Director of Subsidiary Rights, Faye Bi to Senior Publicist, and Isa Caban to Marketing Coordinator. Chrissy Noh was promoted to Marketing Director for Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Atheneum, Margaret K. McElderry, Paula Wiseman, Beach Lane, and Saga Press. Jeannie Ng was promoted to Senior Managing Editor at Atheneum. Simon & Schuster Audio promoted Desiree Vecchio to Editor, Christina Zarafronitis to Senior Producer, Louisa Solomon to Managing Producer & Casting Director, and Michael Noble to Senior Associate Producer.

Nisha Panchal-Terhune was promoted to Associate Director of Creative Services at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Marcie Lawrence was promoted to Senior Designer.

Farrar, Straus & Giroux promoted Sarah Scire to Senior Publicist.

DULY NOTED

Buz Teacher and Janet Bukovinsky Teacher sold the assets of their year-old cooking publisher Burgess Lea Press to Quarto Publishing Group. All after-tax publishing profits will continue to be donated to charitable organizations of good works for hunger relief, farmland preservation, and culinary education. Book Advisors LLC (David Lamb and Susan Reich), working with Market Partners, advised the Teachers on the transaction.

Linda Cogozzo and Donald Moyer sold the assets of Rodmell Press, an independent publisher of books on yoga and Buddhism, to Shambhala Publications. Book Advisors LLC advised the sellers on the transaction.

Macmillan acquired self-publishing platform Pronoun. Pronoun’s CEO Josh Brody will become President of Pronoun at Macmillan and Chief Product Offer Ben Zhuk will become VP, Product.