PEOPLE
At WaterBrook & Multnomah, Sarah Rubio joins as Executive Editor and Bunmi Ishola joins as Editor. Rubio was previously Senior Editor at Tyndale House and Ishola was previously Editorial Project Coordinator at Kidsbooks.
At Scholastic, Alex Kelleher-Nagorski joins as Associate Director of Publicity. He was previously Publicity Manager at Little, Brown Children’s.
Ingram Spark Director Robin Asbury Cutler will retire at the end of 2020.
At Aevitas Creative Management, Danya Kukafka, formerly Assistant Editor at Riverhead, joins as Agent. Karen Brailsford joins as Consulting Agent; she was previously Writer and Editor at People. And Georgia Frances King, most recently Ideas Editor at Quartz, joins as Agent.
In other agency news…Stacey Graham joins 3 Seas Literary Agency as Agent, a role she previously held at Red Sofa Literary. At The Bent Agency, Desiree Wilson, formerly Editor at Oni Press, joins as Agent. Jackie Williams has joined The Knight Agency as Associate Agent. At Storm Literary Agency, Melissa Richeson joins as Associate Agent; she was formerly Associate Agent at Apokedak Literary Agency. At BookEnds Literary Agency, Emily Forney joins as Associate Agent. Kayla Cichello joins Upstart Crow Literary Agency as Agent, based on the West Coast. Britt Siess has left her position as Literary Manager at Martin Literary Management. Jessica Regel departed Foundry Literary + Media to open her own agency, Helm Literary.
At Sourcebooks, Allison Lewis has joined as Marketing Specialist.
Arriel Vinson joins Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull as Marketing Coordinator.
At knk Software, Steve Rutberg joins as Business Development Manager of the North American team. He was previously Sales Director at HighWire Press.
KaToya Ellis Fleming joins Lookout Books of UNC Wilmington as Editor and Assistant Professor of Publishing. She was previously Editor at The Oxford American Magazine.
Joining McNally Jackson Books are General Manager Eugenia Pakalik, formerly Director of Trade Sales at Chronicle Books, and former Book of the Month Editorial Director Maris Kreizman, Events and Marketing.
Rebecca Gomez Farrell joins the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America as Communications Manager.
Alyssa Songsiridej joins Electric Literature as Assistant Editor of Literary Magazines.
At Bookazine, Rick Gallagher has left his position as Director of Popular Culture. He can be reached at rgallagher8401@gmail.com.
Vince Burns is retiring in September from his position as Editorial Vice President of ABC-CLIO.
Paul Colarusso has left his position as Communications Director at Aperture. He can be reached at pac@paulcolarusso.com.
PROMOTIONS
Hollis Heimbouch moves up to become SVP of Harper Business.
At Weldon Owen, Roger Shaw has become VP, Publisher.
At Scholastic, Liza Baker has become VP, Publisher while Ken Geist becomes VP, Publisher-at-Large.
Wah-Ming Chang is now VP of Company Culture and Senior Managing Editor, Books at Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull. Lena Moses-Schmitt and Sarah Jean Grimm have each been promoted to Senior Publicity Manager. At Catapult, Mensah Demary has been promoted to Executive Editor and Alicia Kroell is now Assistant Editor.
At Insight Editions, Julie Hamilton becomes VP of Sales; Chrissy Kwasnik becomes VP of Creative; and Steve Jones becomes VP of Subsidiary Rights. Anna Wostenberg has been promoted to Associate Editor. Stuart Smith has been promoted to Art Director, Children’s Books. Ashley Quackenbush is now Associate Art Director, Stationary and Gift.
At university presses…Bridget Barry is now Editor-in-Chief at University of Nebraska Press. At Yale University Press, Stephen Cebik becomes Assistant Sales Director, Head of Digital and Art Sales, while Nick Geller becomes Art Book Distribution Partner Coordinator and Kate Zanzucchi becomes Director of Manuscript Editing, Design, and Production, Art Books. Additionally, Heather Gold has been promoted to Editor for Classics and Ancient World.
Michele Wells has been promoted to Co-Editor-in-Chief at DC.
At Sourcebooks, Christy Droege has become Director of Data, while Adam Lara becomes Web Developer and Administrator. Michael DeCarlo is now Director of Information Systems. Allison Sundstrom moves up to Associate Art Director, Children’s.
At Soho Press, Rudy Martinez is now Director of Marketing.
Beth Bugler is now Creative Director at The Experiment.
At the American Pharmacists Association, Jesse Vineyard has been promoted to Editorial Director.
At McNally Jackson Books, Douglas Singleton has been promoted to Director.
In agency news…Maria Vicente is now Senior Literary Agent at P.S. Literary Agency. Mariah Nichols has been promoted to Literary Agent at D4EO Literary Agency. At Levine Greenberg Rostan Literary Agency, Courtney Paganelli becomes Associate Agent. James McGowan becomes Associate Agent at BookEnds Literary Agency. At the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, Tori Sharp has been promoted to Associate Literary Agent. At Tobias Literary Agency, Sasha White has been promoted to Assistant Agent.
Cordia Leung has been promoted to Assistant Manager of Subsidiary Rights at Simon & Schuster. Loan Le is now Editor at Atria, while Nicholas Ciani becomes Editor at Atria and One Signal.
At the Workman Publishing imprint, Danny Cooper and Rachael Mt. Pleasant have each been promoted to Senior Editor, while Sarah Curley becomes Assistant Editor. Gracie Elliott is now Assistant Editor, Children’s and Kelly Lynch is now Creative Director, Calendars. SarahMay Harel has been promoted to Manager, Website Operations and Ecommerce across all Workman imprints. Samantha Gil becomes Associate Production Editor, Hillary Leary becomes Senior Production Editor, and Amanda German becomes Assistant Gift Sales Manager. At the Artisan imprint, Bridget Monroe Itkin moves up to Senior Editor.
At Philip Turner Book Productions, Ewan Turner has been promoted to Managing Editor and will head up a new division, New Stories.
Pronoy Sarkar is now Editor at St. Martin’s Publishing Group.
At Graywolf Press, Morgan LaRocca has been promoted to Publicity Associate.
At the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, Kate Weiss has been promoted to Programs Manager.
Nicole Lyons is now Manager of Operations at Wayside Publishing.
DULY NOTED
Scribd has partnered with Mexico’s Planeta in an exclusive deal to include over a thousand Planeta titles in their Spanish-language subscription service throughout Mexico and Latin America.
Independent Publishers Group has added five publisher clients. Its general distribution program has added The Collective Book Studio, effective in September. The Trafalgar Square distribution program has added Redback Publishing, Open Publishing, and Larrikin House, and it will begin distribution for Sandorf Passage on January 1, 2021.
Additionally, Independent Publishers Group and Penguin Random House India and Southeast Asia (PRHI) are collaborating for joint distribution of titles in India and North America. PRHI will exclusively sell and distribute titles published by over one hundred IPG-distributed booksellers to bookstores, schools, libraries, and online booksellers in the Indian subcontinent. At the same time, PRHI will have North American distribution through IPG’s Trafalgar Square Publishing (TSP) program. TSP will manage sales and distribution of all titles that enjoy world rights in the US and its territories, Canada, the UK, and the EU.
Beginning September 1, Red Wheel/Weiser will be the exclusive worldwide distributor for Lantern Publishing & Media’s print publications.
Beginning October 1, Hallmark Publishing will move its distribution from Two Rivers to Simon & Schuster.
Post Hill Press’s Bombardier Books is launching a new imprint, Emancipation Books, which will “give a voice to black and minority authors – including conservatives, libertarians, traditional liberals, and iconoclasts – whose nonconforming voices are seldom represented in mainstream media, and find themselves increasingly unwelcome at the larger publishing houses.” Bombardier founder David S. Berman will lead the imprint, which will release six to ten book per year.
Levine Querido has an exclusive audio and video agreement with Dreamscape Media.
Effective October 1, CD versions of Recorded Books’ audiobooks will be manufactured, sold, and distributed in North America exclusively by Blackstone Audio.
Penguin Random House and the National Council of Teachers of English have “reimagined” their Teacher Awards program for this year. They will instead donate $25,000 to the Early Career Educator of Color Leadership Award Program.
In France, Bernard Arnault’s investment unit Financiere Agache has been approved to buy a stake in the privately-held Lagardere Capital & Management, which controls the public Lagardere Group. The deal is expected to close in early September and will give Arnault a 26.7% stake in LCM.
