People Round-Up, Mid-June 2017

PEOPLE

Wendy Friedman will join Quarto as VP, Director of International Sales this summer. She was previously President/CEO of Parragon Global.

Sanj Kharbanda has joined Beacon Press as Director of Sales and Marketing, having worked previously as VP, Digital Strategy at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Hallie Patterson has joined Abrams as Associate Director of Publicity, Children’s Trade. She was previously Publicity and Marketing Manager for Hachette Books and Black Dog & Leventhal. Alexandra Calamela has also joined the company as Publicist, Adult Trade; she was formerly Publishing Coordinator at Macmillan Audio.

At Media Source, parent company of Library Journal, Judy Goldstein has been hired as SVP, Marketing, moving over from her role as VP, Operations at Pearson. Alex Pereira has joined as Chief Information Officer; he was most recently CEO of Nenito Learning. Mark Flinn joins as VP, Sales and Business Development for information services, having worked previously as President and CEO of Sightline Media Group. In addition, Tracey Fenton is now VP, Events and Professional Development. She was previously Group Head of Events and Strategic Partnerships at Institutional Investor.

At Chronicle Books, Laura Antonacci has joined as Marketing Director, Children’s. She was previously Senior Marketing Manager for Random House.

At agencies…Dorothy Vincent has joined Trident Media Group as Director of Foreign Rights, moving over from the same position at Janklow & Nesbit. Kathy Schneider joined the Jane Rotrosen Agency as Agent after spending twenty-five years in publishing, most recently as SVP, Associate Publisher at HarperCollins. At Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency, Melissa Danaczko has joined as Agent, having previously worked as Senior Editor at Doubleday. At BookEnds Literary, Rachel Brooks has joined as Agent, moving with her client list from the L. Perkins Agency. Nick Chiles has joined Aevitas Creative Management as Agent, having worked as a writer and journalist; he will be based out of Atlanta. Caroline Eisenmann joined Frances Goldin Literary Agency as Associate Agent, having previously worked with ICM.

Katharine McAnarney has joined Little, Brown Children’s as Senior Publicist, moving over from her role as Publicist for Penguin Children’s.

Sarah Haugen has joined Harper Wave as Assistant Editor. She was previously Editorial Assistant at Little, Brown and Company.

At JKS Communications, Sara Wigal has joined as Senior Book Publicist and Ellen Whitfield as Book Publicist. Wigal was previously Associate Publicist at Open Book Publicity and Whitfield worked as a journalist.

Mary Keeley has departed Books & Such Literary Management, where she had been Agent since 2010. Chelsea Lindman has left her job as Agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, where she worked for eight years; she can be reached at chelsea@norcalwritersretreat.com.

Dolores Reilly, Senior Production Director for Penguin Books, will retire July 14 after 36 years.

PROMOTIONS

Daniel Nayeri has been promoted to the new position of Publisher for Workman Children’s Group, while Nathalie Le Du moves up to Executive Editor and Justin Krasner moves up to Editor.

At Penguin Random House Audio, Heather Dalton has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing, adding oversight for the library and children’s sales teams to her current responsibilities for the adult sales division. Katie Punia has been promoted to Vice President of Publicity. At Berkley, Heather Connor has been promoted to Publicity Director and Diana Franco has been promoted to Associate Publicity Director.

Thames & Hudson has appointed Christopher Sweet as its first Editor-at-Large. Elizabeth Keene has been promoted to Associate Editorial Director. Sarah Thegeby has been promoted to Publicity Associate.

Sean Lockwood has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Sales and Publisher Relations for the Junior Library Guild division at Library Journal.

At agencies…Dana Murphy has been promoted to Agent for The Book Group. Allison Remcheck has been promoted to Associate Agent for Stimola Literary Studio. Nicola DeRobertis-Theye is now responsible for licensing frontlist titles in the UK and overseas translation markets at Trident Media Group, while Martin Rouse now handles all co-agent markets in Eastern Europe and Asia, excluding China and Japan, as well as backlist titles.

At Ingram Content Group, Chris Thompson has been promoted to Key Account Sales Manager. Beth Reinker has been promoted to Manager of Collective Development Adult Materials for Ingram Library Services. At Ingram Book Group, Marc Visnick has been appointed Business Development Manager.

Nicole Schaefer has been promoted to Children’s Marketing Associate at Abrams, while Gretta Hehre has been promoted to Sales Coordinator.

DULY NOTED

North American sales for Search Press will be handled by Penguin Random House Publisher Services, starting January 1.

Beginning with the fall season, Publishers Group West will distribute Canongate Books in the US and Canada.

Bookmasters has signed two Christian publishers for distribution: Lexham Press, effective worldwide except for Great Britain and Europe, and Forward Movement, effective worldwide.

Quarto Distribution Services will handle sales and distribution for Zest Books in North America beginning July 1. It will also handle and distribution in the UK and Ireland as of January 2018.

Penguin Random House acquired Out of Print Clothing on June 1.

The new address for Abrams will be, as of June 26: 195 Broadway, 9^th Floor, New York, NY 10007. Mail will continue to be accepted at the current address until June 21. No email addresses or phone numbers will change.

Casemate Group now distributes Spink Books in North America through Casemate Academic and the rest of the world via Oxbow Books. In addition, Casemate will distribute Fernhurst Books in North America and become the company’s global ebook distributor, effective July 1.