PEOPLE
Mike Evans has joined McGraw-Hill as Chief Financial Officer. He was previously Chief Operating Officer and CFO at Renaissance, a company specializing in learning analytics for pre-K through 12th grade.
At Thomas Nelson, Timothy Paulson has joined as VP and Publisher, beginning February 4. He was most recently General Manager, Science Brands at Kalmbach Media. Kristopher Kam joins HarperCollins Children’s Publishing as Publicist, moving over from his previous position as Associate Publicist at St. Martin’s Press.
Peter Mendelsund, longtime Associate Art Director at Knopf, has been named Creative Director of The Atlantic. His frequent design partner Oliver Munday will become Senior Art Director. Both begin in February.
At the American Psychological Association’s APA Books and Magination Press, Kerry Cahill joins as Sales Director and Emma All joins as Sales Specialist. Cahill was previously Sales Director at Johns Hopkins University Press, where All was Publicist.
At Avid Reader Press, Jordan Rodman joins as Deputy Director of Publicity. Most recently she was a freelance publicist for Dave Eggers and Nathan Englander. Cassie Malmo, formerly Cassie McGinty, has joined Simon Spotlight as Publicity Manager, moving over from her role as Senior Publicist at Disney Publishing Worldwide. Also joining the publicity team are Lauren Carr, Publicist, formerly Publicist at Bonnier Publishing, and Annika Voss, Digital and Social Marketing Coordinator, formerly Marketing Operations Assistant at Scholastic. At Simon & Schuster Children’s, Caroline Osborn joins as Subsidiary Rights Manager. She had been Assistant Subrights Manager at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Carina Guiterman joins Simon & Schuster as Editor, moving over from the same position at Little, Brown. Lisa Lauria, formerly Copywriter at Toys R Us joins the imprint as Editor. Senior Editor Ira Silverberg has left Simon & Schuster after three years with the company.
Iris Hsieh joins Penguin Random House International as Associate Director, China Sales & Product Management. She has been working as Associate Marketing Manager for Taylor & Francis. Marnie Cochran has become Executive Editor at Harmony and Rodale, having worked previously as Executive Editor at Ballantine. Lindsay Rose will join Dutton as Executive Editor on January 22. Most recently she was Senior Editor at Grand Central. At Portfolio, Trish Daly, previously Editor at Little, Brown and Company, joins as Senior Editor. Meanwhile, Frank Steinert, Chief Human Resources Officer at Penguin Random House, will leave the company after the first quarter of 2019. Marian Wood, VP and Publisher of Marian Wood Books, departed at the end of 2018, as did Bruce Nygren, Senior Editor at WaterBrook & Multnomah.
At Grand Central, Alexis Gilbert joins as Assistant Director of Advertising. She was previously Brand Marketing Manager at Little, Brown and Company. Claire Potter, previously Associate Editor at Crown, joins Basic Books as Editor.
At Scribd, Greg Voynow joins as Head of Audio and Content Partnerships. He most recently oversaw business development at New York Public Radio. In addition, Stacey Nathan has joined as Content Acquisition Associate.
Bryan Kinney has joined Reed Exhibitions as Sales Manager. Most recently he was Marketing and Events Director for Publishers Weekly.
Theresa Park and Celeste Fine have founded a new literary agency together, Park & Fine Literary and Media, which combines the existing Park Literary & Media with Fine’s client roster and a number of her colleagues from Sterling Lord Literistic. They will run the agency jointly as Co-Founders and Partners. Joining along with Fine, who was VP at Sterling Lord, are John Maas, formerly Agent and now Executive Director, Editorial Development and Strategy; Sarah Passick, formerly Associate Literary Agent and now Executive Director, New Business and Relationships; and Jaidree Braddix and Anna Petkovich, both formerly Associate Literary Agents and now Literary Agents.
In other agency news…Lucinda Karter joins Trident Literary Agency as Senior Foreign Rights Agent. Most recently she was Agent and Foreign Rights Manager at the Jennifer Lyons Agency. At Thompson Literary Agency, Ashley Collom joins as Literary Agent, moving over from her previous position as Agent and Head Assistant at DeFiore and Company. John Butman is joining Kneerim & Williams as Affiliated Agent; he is the Founder and Principal of Idea Platforms, Inc.
Cara Bedick has joined Chronicle Books as Executive Editor of Mark Tauber’s new, to-be-named imprint. Previously she was Senior Editor at Touchstone.
At Audible, Kerri Kolen joins as Executive Editor, Originals. She was most recently Executive Editor at Putnam.
Anne Goldberg joins Phaidon in New York as Project Editor, Food. Previously she was Associate Editor at Ten Speed Press.
At Scholastic Trade, Samantha Swank rejoins as Editor, Licensing, Media, and Brands. She had been working with the Scholastic Cartwheel team. The company has added a number of other new hires: Sales Associate Brigid Martin, previously Sales and Subrights Coordinator at Disney Publishing Worldwide; Branches, Acorn, and Graphix Production Editor Holland Baker, previously Assistant Managing Editor at Topix Media Lab; Graphic Designer, Trade Creative Services Nicole Surman, formerly Graphic Designer at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts; Assistant Brand Marketing Manager Katherine Forester, formerly Marketing Assistant at Tor/Forge; Production Editor, Trade Paperbacks Caroline Flanagan, previously Assistant Editor, Computer Science at Springer Nature; Advertising Coordinator Vicky Kopidakis, formerly Advertising Promotions Coordinator at HarperCollins; and Brand Publicity Specialist Taylan Salvati, previously Associate Publicist at Wunderkind PR.
Samantha Simon has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as Associate Marketing Manager, Lifestyle. Most recently she was Digital Content Manager at Coaction Public Relations.
At Diversion Books, Melanie Madden has joined as Editor, Nonfiction. She was previously Acquiring and Development Editor at The Quarto Group.
Andrea Concaildi joins Sourcebooks as Marketing Associate, Ecommerce.
PROMOTIONS
Andy Ward has been promoted to SVP of the Random House imprint, where Michelle Jasmine moves up to Associate Director of Publicity and Mary Moates becomes Publicist while Molly Turpin moves up to Editor. Paige McInerney has been promoted to EVP, Director of Human Resources for Penguin Random House US. Christina Foxley has been promoted to Director, Marketing for Harmony and Rodale, where Donna Loffredo becomes Senior Editor and Michele Eniclerico becomes Associate Editor. Rachel Aldrich has been promoted to Assistant Marketing Manager for Crown and Crown Archetype. Derek Reed becomes Senior Editor for Currency, Convergent, and Crown Forum. Also at Crown, Meghan Houser has been promoted to Editor and Rose Fox to Associate Editor, while Jon Darga and Jillian Buckley both move up to become Assistant Editor; in the rights department, Rachel Berkowitz is now Deputy Director of Foreign Rights and Claire Posner becomes Associate Manager, Subsidiary Rights. David Moench becomes Director of Publicity, Del Rey. At Ballantine Bantam Dell, Sara Weiss has been promoted to Executive Editor and Emily Hartley and Elana Seplow-Jolley become Editors. Additionally, Bridget Kearney becomes Publishing Coordinator, Business Insights and Thomas Yuhas moves up to Senior Analyst, Business Insights, while Allison Schuster is now Senior Marketing Manager, Colleen Nuccio becomes Assistant Marketing Manager, and Ashleigh Heaton becomes Assistant Marketing Manager for both BBD and Del Rey. At Clarkson Potter, Stephanie Davis is now Assistant Director, Marketing, while Amanda Englander has been promoted to Executive Editor and Angelin Borsics moves up to Senior Editor. Kaitlin Ketchum has been promoted to Associate Editorial Director at Ten Speed Press alongside Kelly Snowden; also at that imprint, Chloe Rawlins moves up to Art Director, Lizzie Allen to Senior Designer, and Eleanor Thacher to Marketing and Publicity Associate. At Dutton, Emily Canders moves up to Publicity Manager. Andrea Posner-Sanchez has been promoted to Editorial Director of Little Golden Books and Sesame Street. At Penguin Young Readers, Brianna Lockhart has been promoted to Manager, Trade Marketing and Lyana Salcedo has been promoted to Marketing Coordinator, while Tracy Heydweiller moves up to Senior Manager of Production. At Berkley, Roxanne Jones is now Publicist. And at Random House Children’s, Elena Meuse and Sydney Tillman are both now Associate Publicists.
At Hachette Book Group, Dylan Hoke has been promoted to SVP, Publishing Operations and Strategy. Ruiko Tokunaga is now Executive Director, Print Production. At Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Lisa Yoskowitz has been promoted to Editorial Director, Nonfiction.
Jennifer Barth has been promoted to SVP at Harper. At HarperCollins Children’s Publishing, Olivia Russo is now Director, Publicity and Haley George is now Associate Publicist. Cami Miller is now Director for Mass Market Sales at HarperCollins Christian Publishing. And at William Morrow, Eliza Rosenberry has become Senior Publicity Manager and Camille Collins becomes Publicity Manager.
Barry Brover has moved up to become EVP, Operations of Barnes & Noble Education and EVP of Barnes & Noble College. Thomas D. Donohue will succeed Brover as EVP, CFO of Barnes & Noble Education.
At Tom Doherty Associates, Lucille Rettino has been promoted to VP, Associate Publisher, Director of Marketing and Publicity. Claire Eddy moves up to Executive Editor at Tor/Forge, while Carl Engle-Laird becomes Editor at Tor.com. Jackson Howard has become Assistant Editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Chris Bauerle is now VP, Director of Sales and Marketing at Sourcebooks, and Anna Michaels moves up to Editorial Director, Sourcebooks and Poisoned Pen Press.
At Lerner Publishing Group, Rachel Zugschwert has been promoted to VP, Marketing, and Greg Hunter has been promoted to Editorial Director, Graphic Universe.
At Catapult, Jonathan Lee becomes Editor-in-Chief and Pat Strachan becomes VP, Executive Editor. Alexis Aceves Garcia has been promoted to Operations & Finance Associate at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press, and Mallory Soto is now Assistant Editor at Catapult Magazine.
Princeton University Press sees a number of promotions across its offices. In America, Julie Haav has been promoted to Associate Global Promotions Director, Sara Henning-Stout to Promotions Manager, Sciences, and both Nathalie Levine and Alyssa Sanford to Promotions Associates. Also moving up are Barbara Tonetti, Academic Special Sales and Marketing Associate; Jennifer Zuccaro, Special Sales and Marketing Associate; and Lisa Black, Permissions Manager. Leslie Nangle is now Associate Director, Marketing Operations. Debra Liese becomes Curator of Ideas and Partnerships. Matthew Taylor has become Promotions Associate, Sciences, while Stephanie Rojas moves into the role of Digital Promotions Specialist. And in Oxford, Caroline Priday becomes Global Promotions Director and Julia Hall becomes Head of Marketing, Europe.
Karey Circosta is now Associate Publisher at Ave Maria Press. In addition, Eileen Ponder becomes Executive Editor, Ministry Resources, and Heidi Hess Saxton becomes Senior Acquisitions Editor.
At The New Press, Tara Grove has been promoted to Associate Editorial Director, Zakia Henderson-Brown becomes Editor, and Jessica Yu becomes Senior Publicist.
Tom Reale has been promoted to President at Brown Books Publishing Group.
In agency news…at Trident Media Group, Martin Rouse moves up to Foreign Rights Manager and Adrienne Santamaria becomes Foreign Rights Agent. Serene Hakim has been promoted to Associate Agent and Subrights Manager at Ayesha Pande Literary. At P.S. Literary Agency, Kurestin Armada has been promoted to Agent. And at Frances Goldin Literary Agency, Caroline Eisenmann has been promoted to Agent.
Charlie Ilgunas has been promoted to Associate Editor, little bee books and Yellow Jacket, while Rebecca Webster moves up to Senior Editor of BuzzPop.
Rebecca Vitkus has been promoted to Production Editor at Simon & Schuster Children’s.
At Scholastic Press, Anna Bloom and Emily Seife are now Senior Editors, while Maya Marlette becomes Assistant Editor and Baily Crawford has been promoted to Senior Designer.
DULY NOTED
Effective September 1, Penguin Random House Publisher Services will distribute Crooked Lane Books.
Nation Books has been renamed Bold Type Books. The Nation Institute itself has also changed its name to Type Media Center.
The Authors Guild Foundation is offering its members and other interested travelers an all-inclusive trip to Jordan April 15-25. The tour will introduce Jordan and its many important historical, cultural, and archeological sites, and provides an opportunity to experience the country through its writers, journalists, publishers, and booksellers. For more information, click here.
IN MEMORIAM
Robin Seaman, Director of Content Acquisition at Benetech, passed away suddenly on January 7 in the San Francisco Bay area from complications due to an infection. She was 68. A memorial is being planned.
EVENTS
January 20-21
Ciana 2019 Remainder & Promotional Book Fair
London, UK
January 22
ABA Winter Institute
Albuquerque, NM
January 24-27
Angoulême International Comics Festival
Angoulême, France
January 25-29
ALA Midwinter Meeting
Seattle, WA
January 30-February 10
International Kolkata Book Fair
Kolkata, India
February 7-10
PubWest 2019
Santa Fe, NM
February 12-17
Taipei International Book Exhibition
Taipei City, Taiwan
February 13-17
San Miguel Writers’ Conference and Literary Festival
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
February 14-16
Amelia Island Book Festival
Amelia Island, FL
February 14-17
Brussels Book Fair
Brussels, Belgium
February 14-17
Savannah Book Festival
Savannah, GA
February 14-18
San Francisco Writers Conference
San Francisco, CA
February 16-19
Toy Fair 2019
New York, NY
February 21-24
CAA Annual Conference
Los Angeles, CA
February 21-24
Vilnius International Book Fair
Vilnius, Lithuania
February 22-24
Wizard World Comic Con
Portland, OR
February 22-26
CAMEX 2019
San Antonio, TX
For literary events, see Book Your Calendar.
