PEOPLE
At Quirk Books, Brett Cohen is resigning as President and Publisher after twenty years with the company. Founder and owner David Borgenicht will return to his previous role as President. Jhanteigh Kupihea has been named Publisher and will lead the creative group. Monika Hewlett has also departed her position as VP, Director of Sales.
Christopher Hohns joins DK as VP, Commercial Finance, North America. Previously he was Co-Chief Transformation Lead at Arvato Supply Chain Solutions. At Knopf, Daniel Halpern joins as Executive Editor on July 1. He founded Ecco in 1971 and was President and Publisher of the imprint until becoming Editor-at-Large last year. Larry Mallach joins Penguin Random House as Executive Director, Inventory Management, Adult; he was previously Senior Director, Demand & Supply Planning and Inventory Management at Hachette Book Group. Laura Keefe, formerly Senior Director of Marketing and Publicity at Bloomsbury, joins as Senior Director of Marketing for Knopf Pantheon Schocken.
At Welbeck Publishing, Josalyn Moran joins as Director of Business Development for Children’s Books, North America. She was previously Senior Director, Children’s Books at Barnes & Noble.
At Andrews McMeel Universal, Diane Mangan, formerly Director, Category Management and Product Development, Follett Book Fairs at Follett, joins as Children’s Marketing Director. Teryn Deshler joins Andrews McMeel Publishing as Trade Marketing Specialist.
Paul Samuelson joins Scribner as Deputy Director of Publicity on March 12. He was most recently Director of Publicity for Twelve Books. Robert Messenger joins Simon & Schuster’s flagship imprint as Senior Editor; he was previously Executive Editor of the Weekly Standard.
Mark Doyle joins IDW Publishing as Editorial Director of Originals. He was previously Executive Editor at DC Comics.
Terrence Hart has been named General Counsel for the Association of American Publishers. He was previously Assistant General Counsel at the U.S. Copyright Office.
David Nenke has been appointed President of Digital Student Solutions at Barnes & Noble Education. He was previously General Manager at Amazon Explore.
Greg Barlow will rejoin Merriam-Webster as President. He had worked previously as Chief Marketing Officer for Encyclopedia Britannica.
At Steerforth Press, David Goldberg, lately Sales Manager at The MIT Press, joins as Sales and Marketing Director.
At House of Anansi Press, Debby de Groot is joining as Publicity Director. She was previously Owner and Principal Publicist at MDG & Associates.
At RBmedia, Mark Warner joins as Publisher of Christian Audio and Leader of the ChristianAudio.com digital direct business. He was previously Director of Business Analysis at HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Additionally, RBmedia has launched a new Spanish-language audio brand, BookaVivo, and Roseann Lake has joined as Spanish Content Publisher. She worked previously as a journalist, most recently as Cuba Correspondent for The Economist.
At TKO Studios, Marc Visnick joins in the newly-created position of VP of Sales and Business Development. He was previously Senior Business Development Manager at Ingram Content Group and cofounded Callisto Media. Additionally, Colleen Lindsay joins as Senior Manager, Marketing and Social Media. She was most recently Publicity Lead at Amazon Publishing.
Jim Sokolowski, formerly VP, Comic Book Specialty & Newsstand Sales for DC Entertainment, has been named VP and Associate Publisher at Dynamite Entertainment. Additionally, Nick Prentz, formerly Graphic Designer at Diamond Comics Distributors, has joined the design team.
Brent Cunningham is departing his position as Executive Director of Small Press Distribution following an internal investigation.
Paul Sliker joins Fortier Public Relations as Publicity Director. He was formerly VP and Director of Finance and Economics at Finn Partners.
Courtney Gillette, formerly Assistant Director at the NYU Center for Publishing, has joined The Writing Institute at Sarah Lawrence College as Director and can be contacted at cgillette@sarahlawrence.edu.
At A Public Space, Cristina Rodriguez, formerly Manager and Buyer at Deep Vellum Bookstore, has joined as Marketing and Sales Director. She will oversee marketing for the literary and arts magazine A Public Space and A Public Space Books, as well as A Public Space’s ongoing series of virtual book clubs, #APStogether.
In agency news…Tanusri Prasanna, formerly Agent at YRG Partners, joins DeFiore and Company as Agent. Adriann Ranta Zurhellen, also formerly Agent at YRG Partners, joins Folio Literary Management as Agent. Peter Steinberg joins Fletcher & Company as Literary Agent; he was previously Agent at YRG Partners as well. Anne Tibbetts, lately Literary Agent at D4EO Literary Agency, joins Donald Maass Literary Agency as Literary Agent. Andrea Heinecke joins The Bindery as Agent, bringing over her list from her time as Literary Agent at Alive Literary. At Barbara J. Zitwer Agency, Sue Park joins as Agent, YA and Children’s. Sandra Pareja, previously Literary Agent and Foreign Rights Agent at Casanovas & Lynch, joins Massie & McQuilkin as Agent.
At Celadon Books, Bill Hamilton joins on April 5 as Executive Editor. Most recently he was Washington Editor at The New York Times. Clarissa Long, formerly Publicity Director at Four Way Books, joins Holt as Publicity Manager on March 22.
Jennifer Ung joins Quill Tree Books as Executive Editor. She was previously Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Brieana Garcia joins Harper One as Senior Marketing Manager, working on the Amistad, Harper Español, and Harper Via imprints; she had been Associate Marketing Manager at Penguin Random House. Emily Fisher, lately Publicist at Bloomsbury, has joined William Morrow as Senior Publicist.
Graywolf Press has hired Yuka Igarashi, previously Editor-in-Chief of Catapult and Soft Skull Press, in the newly-created position of Executive Editor. Igarashi assumes that role on April 8 and will work remotely from her home in Hawaii.
Jennifer Kasius joins Kevin Anderson & Associates as Executive Editor. She was previously Editorial Director at Running Press.
Astra Publishing House is launching an international literary magazine, Astra Quarterly, by the end of the year with a website planned for this fall. Nadja Spiegelman, previously Online Editor of The Paris Review, will lead the magazine as Editor-in-Chief.
At Sterling Publishing, Tracey Keevan, formerly Executive Editor at Disney-Hyperion, joins as Editorial Director of Children’s Publishing.
Pamela Jaffee has joined Sourcebooks as Senior Director of Publicity and Brand Marketing for the new imprint launched with E.L. James. She was previously Senior Director of Publicity and Brand Development at HarperCollins for Avon Books, Harper Voyager, and William Morrow. Trent Harmon joins the company as Online Sales Manager. He was previously Buyer and Lead Content Manager for Ingram.
At Bloomsbury Children’s US, John Candell joins as Executive Designer. In the past, he worked as Associate Art Director at Henry Holt & Company. Noella James, formerly Editorial Assistant at Orient BlackSwan, joins as Assistant Editor.
At Abrams Children’s Books and ComicArts, Andrea Miller joins as Senior Designer. She was formerly Senior Designer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers.
Kait Feldmann joins Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Children’s as Senior Editor. She was previously Editor at Orchard Books. At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Kelly Shi joins as Publicity Associate and Benny Sisson joins as Marketing Operations Associate.
Susan Dobinick joins Boyds Mills & Kane as Senior Editor. She was formerly Senior Editor at Bloomsbury Children’s Books. Octavia Saenz joins mineditionUS as Assistant Editor.
At Rick Riordan Presents/Disney-Hyperion, Rebecca Kuss joins as Senior Editor. She was previously Editor at Inkyard Press/Harlequin.
Susan Hershberg has joined Rowman & Littlefield as Publicity Manager. Most recently she was Publicity Manager at Princeton Architectural Press.
At The Experiment, Melinda Kennedy joins as Senior Publicist. She was previously Marketing Manager at University of Chicago Press.
Samantha Benson has joined Blackstone Publishing as Publicist.
At Kaye Publicity, Katelynn Dreyer joins as Publicist.
Jessica Yao joins W.W. Norton as Editor on April 5, acquiring and editing books for the company’s science list. She was previously Editor at Princeton University Press.
At Running Press, Ada Zhang, formerly Assistant Editor at Sterling Children’s, has joined as Associate Editor.
Yezanira Venecia joins Soho Press as Assistant Editor, acquiring for Soho Crime. She was previously Assistant Editor at Skyhorse.
At the University of North Carolina Press, María Isela Garcia, previously Editorial Assistant at Princeton University Press, joins as Assistant Editor.
Jonah Kaplan joins Read Club Hub as Project Manager and can be contacted at jonah@readclubhub.com. He was formerly Operations Manager at Books & Books.
Emily Nemens is stepping down as Editor of The Paris Review after three years to write her next book. She succeeded Lorin Stein, who resigned in 2017.
At Candlewick Press, Elroy McEdriss joins as Staff Accountant.
PROMOTIONS
At Quirk Books, Nicole De Jackmo moves up to the newly-created position of SVP, Sales, Marketing, and Publicity. Megan DiPasquale becomes VP, Finance; Andie Reid, Art Director; Jane Morley, Managing Editor; Mandy Sampson, Senior Production and Sales Manager; and Kelsey Hoffman, Senior Publicity and Marketing Manager.
At Macmillan Learning, Charles Linsmeier has been promoted to EVP, General Manager. Nathalie Le Du has been promoted to Publisher of Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group’s Odd Dot imprint. Outgoing publisher Daniel Nayeri is leaving to write full-time. At Tom Doherty Associates, Stephanie Sirabian has been promoted to Senior Associate Director of Advertising and Promotion; Anthony Parisi, to Senior Associate Director of Marketing and School & Library; Megan Barnard, to Associate Creative Director, Advertising and Promotion; Michelle Foytek, to Senior Manager of Publishing Operations; Alex Cameron, to Senior Brand Manager; Jennifer McClelland-Smith and Isa Caban, both to Senior Marketing Managers; Amanda Melfi, to Digital Marketing Coordinator; and Andrew King, Natassja Haught, and Ariana Carpentieri, all to Marketing Coordinators. Robert Davis moves up to Editor. In the publicity department, Laura Etzkorn and Libby Collins become Senior Publicists and Giselle Gonzalez moves up to Assistant Publicist. At Flatiron, Keith Hayes moves up to VP, Creative Director, while Erin Gordon moves up to Assistant Art Director, Marketing; Katherine Turro, to Assistant Director, Marketing; Christopher Smith, to Senior Publicity Manager; Claire McLaughlin, to Senior Publicist; Louis Grilli, to Assistant Manager, Publishing Operations; and Sydney Jeon, to Assistant Editor. At First Second, Molly Johanson has been promoted to Designer and Sunny Lee moves up to Senior Designer.
John Quinn has been promoted to SVP, Finance and Business Operations at Abrams. Nadine Sferratore is now Director of Special Markets, Sales. Samantha Weiner and Laura Dozier both move up to Executive Editor, Adult, while Chelsea Cutchens has been promoted to Editor, Adult and Connor Leonard becomes Associate Editor, Adult. Mamie VanLangen has been promoted to Senior Manager, Digital & Social Media Marketing. Shelby Ozer moves up to National Accounts Representative. At Abrams Children’s, Borana Greku becomes Senior Manager, Marketing and Megan Evans becomes Assistant Manager, Marketing, while Emily Daluga moves up to Associate Editor; Jessica Gotz and Sara Sproull, to Assistant Editors; and Jade Rector, to Junior Designer.
Marissa Eigenbrood is now SVP at Smith Publicity.
At Penguin Random House, Cara Deedy is now VP of Mergers and Acquisitions. In the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Julianne Clancy becomes Associate Director, Marketing, while Andrew Miller has been promoted to VP, Executive Editor and Diane Tejerina Miller becomes Executive Editor. Angelin Borsics has been promoted to Executive Editor at Random House/Clarkson Potter. At Putnam, Katie McKee moves up to Assistant Director of Publicity.
Vanessa Mobley is now VP, Executive Editor at Little, Brown. Pamela Brown moves up to Executive Director of Marketing. Lena Little becomes Director of Publicity, while Katharine Myers becomes Senior Director of Publicity. Juliana Horbachevsky has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity, Spark and Voracious. Sareena Kamath and Elizabeth Gassman both become Assistant Editors. At Grand Central Publishing, Albert Tang is now VP, Creative Director, while Andy Dodds has been promoted to Publicity Director; Joseph Benincase, to Assistant Director, Marketing; Morgan Swift, to Associate Marketing Manager; Kamrun Nesa, to Senior Publicist; Wes Miller, to Executive Editor; Seema Mahanian, to Senior Editor; Rachael Kelly and Carmel Shaka, both to Assistant Editors; and Kirsiah McNamara, to Assistant Editor and Digital & Paperback Coordinator Additionally, over at Grand Central/Forever, Estelle Halick becomes Associate Director, Marketing & Publicity while Sam Brody becomes Assistant Editor. At Hachette Book Group, Julie Hernandez becomes Executive Director of Wholesale Sales; Danielle Cantarella becomes Senior National Account Manager for Barnes & Noble; Elizabeth Venere becomes Senior Manager, Account Marketing; Alyson Powers becomes Academic and Account Marketing Manager; Katrina Kruse becomes Senior Sales Representative; Ali Cutrone becomes Executive Director, Online Sales and Grand Central Publishing Liaison; Shiauping Shih becomes Executive Director, Sales Analytics; Jill Reschop-Gonzalez becomes Director, Sales, Information, and Operations; Jennifer Gray becomes Senior Sales Manager, International; and Hannah Koerner becomes Senior Subrights Associate. Additionally, Matt Hooban is now Communications Director. At James Patterson, Denise Roy is now Editorial Director, while Dan Denning moves up to Marketing Associate and Caitlyn Averett becomes Assistant Editor, Jimmy Patterson. At Running Press, Shannon Fabricant is now Executive Editor, while Britny Brooks becomes Associate Editor; Marissa Rayman and Rachel Peckman both become Designers; and Kara Thornton moves up to Assistant Director of Publicity, Running Press and Black Dog & Leventhal. Sharon Kunz is now Publicity Manager at Basic Books and Seal Press. At Orbit, Nivia Evans becomes Senior Editor, Angela Man moves up to Publicist, and Lisa Marie Pompilio becomes Associate Art Director. At PublicAffairs, Anupama Roy-Chaudhury is now Assistant Editor and Miguel Cervantes is now Marketing Manager. At Hachette Books, Hachette Go, and Legacy Lit, Terri Sirma has been promoted to Senior Designer and Quinn Fariel has been promoted to Senior Marketing Manager. Alison Dalafave becomes Assistant Editor, Hachette Go, and Carrie Napolitano becomes Associate Editor, Hachette Books.
At Sourcebooks, Mike Zuccato is now VP, Ecommerce and Online Marketing. Kavita Wright moves up to Director, Online Marketing. Molly Waxman becomes Executive Director of Marketing, Fiction. Katia Herrara becomes Senior Manager of Ecommerce. Morgan Vogt becomes Online Marketing Specialist. Hannah Doherty has been promoted to Manager for the Office of the CEO. Shana Drehs is now Senior Editorial Director for Sourcebooks and Sourcebooks Landmark.
Declan Spring is now VP, Executive Editor at New Directions. Brittany Dennison becomes Co-Director of Publicity and Coordinator of Sales & Distribution; Mieke Chew becomes Co-Director of Publicity and Editor. Tynan Kogane has been promoted to Senior Editor. Jeffrey Yang becomes Editor-at-Large.
Stephen Bedford has been promoted to Senior Marketing Director for the Simon & Schuster imprint. Sally Howe and Sarah Goldberg both move up to Editor at Scribner, where Rebekah Jett has been promoted to Assistant Editor.
At Workman Publishing, Jennifer Mears becomes Senior Art Director of Creative Services, while Ashley McPhee moves up to Assistant Manager, Creative Services. Adelia Kalyvas is now Director, Gift and Mass Merchant Sales. Caitlin Kleinschmidt becomes Associate Director of National Accounts. Neil Hiremath moves up to Assistant Director, Digital Business Operations, while Rina Mody becomes Manager, Digital Operations & Analytics. Kayla Burson becomes Senior Sales Manager, Online Retail, Catalogs, and Specialty Wholesale. Valerie Alfred becomes Senior Key Account Manager, Gift Sales.
At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Shara Alexander has been promoted to Publicity Director, Lifestyle. Emma Gordon is now Senior Publicist and Marissa Page is now Publicist. Liz Anderson moves up to Associate Director, Marketing and Meghan Gocke becomes Associate Director, Digital Marketing and Operations. Alex Littlefield is now Executive Editor and Sarah Kwak becomes Associate Editor. Lauren Wengrovitz is now Marketing Associate, HMH Books for Young Readers. At Heinemann Publishing, Cindy Nguyen-Pham has been promoted to Associate Editor.
At Chronicle Books, Courtney Payne has been promoted to Director of Trade Sales. Anna-Lisa Sandstrum is now Associate Director of Sales and Marketing, School and Library, and Carrie Gao moves up to Marketing Coordinator, School and Library. Eva Zimmerman is now Senior Publicist, Children’s. Meghan Legg is now Associate Production Designer. Kathleen Miller moves up to Sales Manager, Specialty, while Emily Malter becomes Associate Sales Manager, Specialty, Eden Sugay becomes Sales & Marketing Manager, and Hannah Poor becomes Sales & Marketing Coordinator. Sofie Bercaw has been promoted to Distribution Coordinator. Feather Flores becomes Assistant Editor, Children’s. Samantha Chambers is now Publicity and Social Media Coordinator, Children’s.
At David C Cook, Amy Konyndyk is now VP of the Action Bible portfolio.
Nicole Jarvis has been promoted to Marketing Director at Bloomsbury, where Laura Phillips is moving up to Managing Editorial Director for Adult and Children’s Trade and Nick Sweeney becomes Associate Production Editor. Additionally, Callie Garnett has been promoted to Senior Editor; Morgan Jones moves up to Associate Editor; Elizabeth Ellis moves up to Assistant Editor; Mia Kwon becomes Associate Designer, Adult Trade; and Emily Fishman moves up to Associate Publicist. Lily Yengle is now Senior Marketing Manager at Bloomsbury Children’s US. Rayshma Arjune moves up to Publicity Manager for Special Interest and Osprey. At Bloomsbury Digital Resources, Michelle Kelly becomes Marketing Director and Melissa Mazza becomes Senior Account Manager. At Fairchild Books, Emily Samulski has been promoted to Senior Acquisitions Editor, while Jenna Lefkowitz becomes Assistant Editor. Leah Babb-Rosenfeld becomes Publisher for Music and Sound Studies at Bloomsbury Academic.
At Andrews McMeel, Kristen Minter has been promoted to Director of Digital Publishing. Kevin Kotur and Katie Gould both become Associate Editors. Megan Hammons moves up to Digital Marketing Specialist.
At Blackstone Publishing, Lauren Maturo is now Director of Publicity.
Stephanie Sumulong has been promoted to Art Director at Callisto Media.
At Moon Travel Guides, Nikki Ioakimedes has become Acquisitions Director.
Mensah Demary has been promoted to Editor-in-Chief for Soft Skull.
In agency news…Hannah Fergesen has been promoted to Senior Literary Agent at KT Literary. Linda Epstein is now Dramatic Rights Manager at Emerald City Literary Agency, where Caitlin White moves up to Assistant Agent. At Trident Media Group, Tess Weitzner has been promoted to Associate Agent. At the Tobias Literary Agency, Matt Belford moves up to Senior Literary Agent and Director, Adult, while Natascha Morris becomes Senior Literary Agent and Director, Children’s.
At the University of North Carolina Press, Brandon Proia is now Executive Editor and Cate Hodorowicz is now Associate Editor.
At HarperCollins Children’s Publishing, David Curtis has been promoted to Design Manager.
Jacob Surpin is now Senior Editor/Associate Publisher at Parallax Press.
Lauren Cepero has been promoted to Senior Publicist at Page Street Publishing.
At Baker Publishing Group, Elisa Tally becomes Editor.
At Crooked Lane Books and Alcove Press, Melissa Rechter has been promoted to Editorial and Production Associate and Madeline Rathle moves up to Marketing Associate.
Kate Hurley has been promoted to Senior Managing Editor at Candlewick Press. JoAnn Sweeney is now Senior Editorial Services Manager. Cassandra Martinez moves up to Commercial Operations Coordinator.
At Levine Querido, Meghan Maria McCullough is now Associate Editor.
At The New York Review of Books, Emily Greenhouse has been named Editor. Jana Prikryl moves up to Executive Editor, Daniel Drake to Production Editor, and Maya Chung to Associate Editor.
DULY NOTED
HarperCollins Focus is launching a new Nashville-based imprint, Harper Muse, to be headed by VP and Publisher Amanda Bostic. The imprint will publish three titles in 2021 and seven in 2022.
Effective March 1, Baker & Taylor Publisher Services handles warehousing and fulfillment for World Book, Inc.
Simon & Schuster distributes Artists Writers & Artisans Studios and AHOY Comics effective March 1. S&S will sell and distribute Leaders Press beginning April 1 and distribute Vault Comics beginning May 1.
Ingram’s Two Rivers Distribution has added four new client publishers for Spring 2021: Platform Books, LifeLines, G Editions, and Girl Friday Books.
The Scribd Audio imprint has officially launched after releasing forty audiobooks. Titles are exclusive to Scribd subscribers for three months and then distributed broadly. The line focuses on books from independent publishers without their own audio divisions.
Audiobook producer RBmedia has announced an exclusive deal between its Christian Audio brand and Christian publishers InterVarsity Press, P&R, and 1517 Media.
Dreamscape Media and Turner Publishing Company have announced an exclusive multi-year audio agreement including production and distribution of Turner Publishing’s audiobook titles, as well as audio rights to titles from Turner imprint Keylight Books. Dreamscape’s audiobook adaptations of Turner’s titles will be available beginning this month.
Maria B. Campbell Associates is now US scout for Poland’s Marginesy Publishers, with Maria B. Campbell Associates UK serving as UK scout.
