People Round-Up, Early June 2017

PEOPLE

At Hachette, Michael Barrs will join as Marketing Director starting May 30. He was most recently Marketing Director for Dey Street Books. Betsy Hulsebosch, currently Marketing Director, will be dedicating her role to the Black Dog & Leventhal list. At Little, Brown, Philip Marino has joined as Senior Editor, moving over from his previous position as Associate Editor and Marketing Director for Liveright.

Christie Henry has been named Director of Princeton University Press, effective early September, and succeeds Peter Dougherty, who is retiring in December. She has been Editorial Director for the sciences, social sciences, and reference at the University of Chicago Press since 1993.

At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Dinah Stevenson, Publisher of Clarion Books, is transitioning to Editor-at-Large. A new publisher will not be named, and Cat Onder, SVP of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s, will continue to oversee the imprint. In addition, Kate Mills is retiring from her position as Vice President of Contracts on June 1 after thirty-five years with the company; she can be reached at kate.mills301@gmail.com. Mary Cullinane, EVP and Chief Content Officer, will also depart in late July.

At Workman, Cheryl Clayton has joined as Senior Manager of Digital Operations, having worked previously as Metadata Operations Manager at W. W. Norton. Olivia Swomley is now Associate Editor for Children’s; she was previously Editorial Assistant at HarperCollins. Elissa Santos, who had been with Workman part-time, joins the production department full-time as Typesetter. Kayla Burson, previously Sales Coordinator, Special Markets at Penguin Random House, is now Assistant Manager of Mail Order, Specialty Wholesale, and Online Retail. In addition, Zelina Bennett has joined as Digital Marketing Coordinator.

At Grand Central Life & Style, Leah Miller has joined as Senior Editor. She was most recently Senior Editor at Rodale.

Ben Hyman joins Bloomsbury USA on June 5 as Senior Editor for Nonfiction in the adult trade division; he was previously Associate Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Megan Jayne Dobson is now Associate Publisher at W Publishing. She was previously Director of Sales, Mass Market at HarperCollins Christian Publishing.

Noelle Ebner has joined the Carson-Dellosa Publishing Group as VP of Sales. She was previously Director of Sales at Scholastic.

At agencies…Tanusri Prasanna has joined Foundry Literary + Media as Literary Agent, moving over from Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency. Rica Allannic, former Clarkson Potter Executive Editor, will join the David Black Agency as Literary Agent in September.

At Scholastic, Matthew Poulter has joined as Marketing Manager for Education Marketing; he was Membership and Marketing Director at the Children’s Book Council. Shara Zaval has joined as Marketing Manager for Picture Books, having worked previously as US Publicity and Marketing Manager at Faber & Faber. Vanessa Han has joined as Designer at Klutz, moving over from the same position at Penguin Random House.

Victoria Chao has joined Chronicle Books as Design Studio Manager; she had been Marketing Consultant for Square. Michelle Park also joined as Visual Content Coordinator, moving over from her previous position as Marketing and Creative Designer for Saint Frank Coffee.

Samuel M. Caggiula is now US Group Publicity Director at Casemate Group. Most recently, he was Account Director, Publicity and Advertising for YourTango.

Chip Rolley has joined PEN America as Director of the PEN World Voices Festival and will also serve as Senior Director of Literary Programs. He was most recently Artistic Director of the Sydney Writers’ Festival.

Beth Lieberman, formerly of NAL, Warner Books, Kensington Publishing, and Lieberman Editorial, has joined the Central Conference of American Rabbis (CCAR) Press as Executive Editor.

Emma Komlos-Hrobsky joins Tin House Books as Associate Editor. She was previously Editor at Tin House magazine.

Hannah Engler has joined Doubleday as Marketing Assistant.

John Leahy, Cengage EVP and Chief Financial Officer, will step down at the end of the year.

At Simon & Schuster, Dave Upchurch, Senior VP and Group Controller, will retire on July 7 after twenty-seven years with the company. Deepak Daswani will succeed him, beginning June 5. Daswani was most recently VP of Technical Accounting at Viacom.

At Open Road Integrated Media, Laura J. Burns has left her position as Executive Editor and can be reached at LJBeditorial@gmail.com. Julie Blattberg has left her position as VP of Strategic Operations and Chief of Staff; she can be reached at julieb@julieb.net.

Matti Shem-Tov will succeed Kurt Sanford as CEO of ProQuest in the third quarter of 2017. Shem-Tov has been President of ProQuest subsidiary Ex Libris.

PROMOTIONS

Divya Sawhney has been promoted to Vice President for Strategy and Corporate Development at Penguin Random House. Leslie Prives now serves in the newly-created position of Senior Director, Integrated Marketing Operations, and Maxwell Minckler is now Director, Marketing Insights and Analytics. Michelle Jasmine has been promoted to Assistant Director of Publicity and Allyson Lord has been promoted to Associate Publicist. At Doubleday, John Pitts has been promoted to Vice President and Executive Director of Marketing and Judy Jacoby has been promoted to Vice President and Creative Marketing Director. In addition, Lauren Weber is now Assistant Marketing Director and Sarah Engelmann is now Marketing Manager. In addition, Allison Schuster has been promoted to Marketing Manager for Ballantine Bantam Dell.

At agencies…Rich Green has been promoted to Head of Media Rights at ICM Partners. Hillary Jacobson, Heather Karpas, and Zoe Sandler have each been promoted to Agent in ICM Partners’ New York publishing department. Literary Agent Will Watkins moves over from motion picture literary to media rights, and Lia Chan has been promoted to Agent in the media rights unit.

At Scholastic, Lizette Serrano moves up to Senior Director of Educational Marketing and Event Strategy and Rachel Feld moves up to Senior Director of Marketing. In addition, Michelle Campbell has been promoted to Marketing Manager; Devin MacDonald, to Assistant Marketing Manager; Vaishali Nayak, to Senior Marketing Coordinator; and Abby Stahlman, to Senior Designer for Marketing. Elsewhere in the company, Samantha Palazzi has moved to Publishing Manager for Chicken House and David Fickling Books.

Cheryl Dickemper has been promoted to Director of School Supply and Reference Sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, while Olivia Wilson moves up to Sales Manager for Specialty Retail and International and Jackie Sassa moves to Lead Sales Coordinator for National Accounts. Carissa Ray, recently appointed Sales Representative, now handles HMH’s relationship with Raincoast Distribution in Canada. Amanda Acevedo and Alia Almeida have both been promoted to Marketing Specialist at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s.

Vanessa Karalis has been promoted to Assistant Manager of Sales Operations at Workman.

At Scott Manning & Associates, Abigail Welhouse has been promoted to Senior Publicist.

Jessica Krakoski has been named VP, Managing Director of Cave Henricks Communications.

DULY NOTED

Arcadia Publishing & the History Press has acquired the business of Palmetto Publishing Group. Michael Shannon II, founder of PPG, will continue to lead the business.

IPG has added new publishers as clients: Troika Books and Ragged Bears, to be distributed by Trafalgar Square, beginning June 1; Bocconi University Press, to be distributed by the academic and professional publishing business, beginning June 1; and Nostra Ediciones: Panorama Editorial, to be distributed with IPG Spanish Books, beginning August 1.

Lerner Publisher Services will be the exclusive distributor in the US and Canada for Lantana Publishing, effective in August.

Jessica Craig of Craig Literary LLC has been appointed as the agent for Diversion Books’ foreign rights representation worldwide.

Lucinda Literary will work with Linda Kaplan at Kaplan/Defiore Rights to sell UK and translation rights to their clients’ titles.

Scott Manning & Associates has announced a new address as of June 2: 433 Broadway, Suite 432, New York, NY 10013. Their phone number is (646) 661-6665.