People Round-Up, Early April 2017

PEOPLE

At Ingram Content Group, two new executive officers have been named: Kelly Arnold, who will serve as Chief Legal Officer, and Deanna Steele, who will serve as Chief Information Technology Officer. In addition, Lisa Tomasello has joined as Director of Mass Merchandisers Sales; she was previously Senior National Accounts Manager for Macmillan. At Ingram Publisher Services, Tricia Remark is now Marketing Manager for International Sales. She worked previously as Promotions and Trade Show Manager at Workman Publishing.

Allison Devlin is joining F+W Media as VP, Director of Sales and Marketing. She was most recently Associate Publisher, Director of Marketing at Time Inc. Books.

Sarah Pelz will join Atria on April 24 as Executive Editor. She has been working as Executive Editor at Grand Central Life & Style.

Nancy Sheppard has joined St. Martin’s Press as Marketing Director, having worked previously as Director of Creative Marketing Services at Penguin Adult.

Tim Marshall has joined HarperCollins Christian Publishing as Senior Marketing Director for Thomas Nelson and Zondervan Gift Books. He was most recently an independent marketing and brand consulting; prior to that, he worked in the Christian music industry. Holly Halverson has also joined as Editor for Specialty Publishing. She previously managed her own freelance editorial business.

Also at HarperCollins, Laura Kaplan has joined HarperCollins Children’s Books as Publicity Manager, having previously worked as Publicity Associate at Disney Publishing Worldwide.

At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Ed Spade has joined as Director of Digital Sales and Strategy. He was previously Senior Account Manager for Content Acquisition at Ingram Content Group.

Michael Martens has joined IDW Publishing as Director of Trade Sales and will act as liaison with Penguin Random House Publisher Services, who will take over distribution this month. Martens had previously consulted on that relationship and was VP of Trade Sales at Dark Horse Comics.

At Penguin Random House Publisher Services, Bailey Thomas is now Associate Manager of Special Markets Imprint Sales; she had been Sales Coordinator at the Crown Publishing Group.

At agencies…Eric Myers has left Dystel, Gooderich & Bourret to start his own agency, Myers Literary Management. He can be reached at eric@myersliterary.com. At Parkeast Literary Agency, Gloria Koehler has retired as Director, and her duties have been outsourced to another firm. Donna Eastman will stay on as Editorial Director and continue to market Parkeast’s books.

Noah Schwartzberg has joined McGraw-Hill Professional as Senior Editor. Previously, he was Acquisitions Editor at Fairchild Books, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing.

At Open Road Integrated Media, Tamal Roy has joined as Senior Data Engineer. He was previously Analytics Engineer at Progyny. Wolfgang Criollo, previously Web Designer at MSEDP, has joined as Web Engineer. Joe Zarro, previously Associate E-Commerce Systems Engineer at Henry Schein, has joined as Web Engineer. And Garon Benner, previously Product Manager at Crain Communications Inc., has joined as Senior Product Manager.

Lizzie Vaughan has joined Chronicle Books as Designer.

PROMOTIONS

At Chronicle Books, Rachel Geiger has been promoted to Executive Director of Domestic Sales, moving up from Director of Trade Sales. Anna-Lisa Sandstrum has been promoted to Senior Sales Manager. Melissa Grecco moves up to National Accounts Manager. Ian Delaney and Morgan Amer have both been named Assistant Sales Manager. Amelia Mack has been promoted to Lead Designer of Children’s Books. Ellise Yu has been promoted to Subsidiary Rights and Custom Publishing Coordinator. Iris Mori moves up to Distribution Department Coordinator. Ariel Richardson has been promoted to Editor, Children’s. In addition, Viniita Moran has been promoted to Senior Web Manager and Alina Buevich to Designer of Marketing Communications.

Elizabeth Whiting has been promoted to Senior Director of National Accounts at Scholastic, while Sue Flynn moves up to Director of Field Sales. Nikki Mutch is now Senior Manager of Field Brand Marketing. Meaghan Hilton has been promoted to Special Markets Sales Manager of Retail and Premium. Tracy Bozentka has been promoted to Special Markets Manager of Education. At Arthur A. Levine Books, Nicholas Thomas is now Editor, moving over from Chicken House and David Fickling Books, and Kait Feldman is now Associate Editor. As part of this reorganization, Annette Hughes will be leaving the company and can be reached at: annethug321@gmail.com.

At Open Road Integrated Media, Gregg Fleischman has been promoted to Executive Director of Consumer Newsletters; Sarah Janet, Director of Marketing Analytics; Rachel Krupitsky and Colleen Lindsay, both Director of Marketing; and Eddie Lopez, Senior Web Engineer.

At HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Mackenzie Howard has been promoted to Associate Publisher of Tommy Nelson children’s books and Thomas Nelson gift books, while Jennifer Gott moves up to Editorial Director of Specialty Publishing. Matthew Daddona has been promoted to Editor at Dey Street Books.

Jin Yu has been promoted to Associate Marketing Director at Berkley. Olivia Taussig moves up to Senior Publicist at Viking/Penguin. Josh Redlich has been promoted to Publicist at Random House Children’s. At Spiegel & Grau, Annie Chagnot is now Editor.

At Ingram Content Group, Elenita Chmilowski has become Library Marketing Manager. Marissa Baker is now Barnes & Noble National Account Manager for Perseus Distribution. Mark Hunt has been named Senior National Sales Manager for Lightning Source. At Ingram Publisher Services, Katie Edwards is now Client Manager and Sanford Hernandez has been promoted to Manager, Specialty Retail.

Kay Mitchell has been promoted to Assistant Publisher at Sourcebooks, and Katy Lynch has been promoted to Senior Publicist for Children’s & Young Adult.

Erinn Pascal has been promoted to Assistant Editor at Simon Spotlight.

At Flatiron Books, Patricia Cave is now Publicist.

DULY NOTED

Diamond Comic Distributors is now the exclusive worldwide distributor for comic book publisher AfterShock Comics in English-speaking countries. This agreement includes distribution rights to comic book specialty stores and in book publishing through Diamond Book Distributors.

Berrett-Koehler is moving sales and distribution from Ingram Publisher Services to Penguin Random House Publisher Services beginning January 2018.

Bookmasters has taken on distribution for Bitmap Books in the US and Canada and KiCam Projects and Dalton Windsor worldwide.

The inaugural meeting of PubTechConnect, a joint venture of the NYU SPS Center for Publishing and Publishers Weekly, will be held on April 20. The day-long conference is geared towards helping those in publishing and media learn from other industries about new business strategies and technological advancement