PEOPLE
At Scribner, Marysue Rucci will serve as VP, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of a new imprint, Marysue Rucci Books. She previously worked as VP and Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster.
Tony Lutkus joins Diamond Book Distributors as President. He was most recently Senior Director, Sales & Marketing for Penguin Random House.
At Andrews McMeel Publishing, Erinn Pascal, formerly Editor at Scholastic, joins as Senior Editor, Children’s Books.
Laura Demoreuille joins Scholastic Trade as Editorial Director for 0-8 series and brands and Scholastic Early Learners. She was previously Editorial Director of Early Childhood Books at Scholastic Book Clubs. Anika Ventura joins Klutz as Assistant Editor.
Jess Harold joins Holt Children’s as Editor; she had been Associate Editor at Scholastic. Additionally, Dana Chidiac, formerly Editor at Dial Books for Young Readers, joins as Senior Editor.
At Disruption Books, Janet Potter, lately Events and Marketing Manager at Independent Publishers Group, joins as Marketing Director.
Amelia Mack joins Astra Publishing as Art Director. Most recently she was Children’s Art Director at Chronicle Books.
At Llewellyn Worldwide, Stephanie Ingle joins as Art Director. Colleen McLaren joins as Interior Book Designer; she was formerly Graphic Designer at Red Line Editorial.
Denne Michele Norris joins Electric Literature as Editor-in-Chief. Previously she was Senior Fiction Editor at The Rumpus.
Professor and literary scholar Elisa New has been named the first Director of the Center for Public Humanities at Arizona State University.
At Sourcebooks, BrocheAroe Fabian joins as Marketing Manager. She will continue to own and run River Dog Book Co. and to take on editorial and sensitivity reading projects under Broche Consulting. Additionally, Anna Venckus joins the company as Marketing Coordinator.
Daniella Wexler joins the Harper One Group as Senior Editor, acquiring for Harper One, HarperVia, and Amistad. Most recently she was Editor at Atria.
Alyssa Neumann joins Libro.fm as Product Operations Manager. Formerly she was Editor, Journals at Cambridge University Press.
At Insight Editions, Colleen Lindsay joins as Senior Publicity & Marketing Strategist. She was previously Senior Manager, Marketing and Social Media at TKO Studios.
At Graywolf, Steve Woodward is leaving his position as Senior Editor and can be contacted at snwoodward@gmail.com.
Joining Vintage Books and Anchor Books is Editor Michael Tizzano, formerly Associate Editor at The Countryman Press. Additionally, Neda Dallal joins Tacher Perigee as Assistant Marketing Manager; she had been Senior Marketing Associate at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. At Random House Children’s, Madison Furr, lately Associate Publicist at Macmillan, joins as Publicist.
At Kent State University Press, Julia Wiesenberg joins as Marketing and Sales Manager. Formerly she was Executive Director of the Buckeye Book Fair.
Keely Thomas-Menter joins Chronicle as Food and Lifestyle Publicist.
Gabriel Kachuck joins Oxford University Press as Publicist. He had previously worked as Editorial Assistant at Liveright.
PROMOTIONS
Tara Catogge has been appointed Group Chief Operating Officer at Quarto. Additionally, Andrew Stanley becomes SVP, Group Sales and Marketing and Winnie Prentiss becomes SVP, Group Publishing Director US. Prentiss will manage Walter Foster, Walter Foster Jr., and Motorbooks, as well as Fair Winds Press, Harvard Common Press, Rockport Publishers, Quarry Books, and Cool Springs Press. Stephanie Warner is promoted to VP, Director of US & Canada Sales.
At InterVarsity Press, Terumi Echols has been promoted to President and Publisher, succeeding former publisher Jeff Crosby.
At Amazon, Maggie Sivon is now Head of Books PR and Dennelle Catlett moves up to Head of Publicity, Amazon Publishing.
Thea Sherer moves into the newly-created position of Climate Action Officer at Springer Nature.
At Riverhead, Jynne Dilling Martin has been promoted to VP, Deputy Publisher. Rebecca Marsh has been promoted to Director of Publicity for Viking Penguin, where Sara Leonard moves up to Publicist. At Random House, Porscha Burke moves up to the newly-created position of Director, Strategic Projects. Additionally, Louise Braverman, Viking Penguin Director of Publicity, will depart the company. She joined in 2006.
Nekasha Pratt is now VP of Marketing at HarperCollins Christian Publishing Fiction and HarperCollins Focus Fiction.
Lauren Burniac is now Director, Content Packaging at Disney Publishing Worldwide.
At Ave Maria, Heather Glenn becomes Director of Sales and Marketing.
In agency news, Jas Perry moves up to Agent at KT Literary.
Deve McLemore is now Senior Purchasing Manager at Sourcebooks. Additionally, Bret Kehoe is now Senior Managing Editor and Kelsey Kulp is now Ecommerce Support Associate.
At Chronicle Books, Diane Levinson becomes Associate Director of Publicity; Natalie Nicholson becomes Senior Marketing Manager; and Maggie Haas becomes Associate Manager of Website and Ecommerce.
At Candlewick Press, Jamie Tan becomes Publicity Manager and Dana Eger becomes School and Library Marketing Associate.
Christian Westerman is now Associate Manager, Field Sales and Retail Marketing at Workman.
At The New York Times, John Williams moves up to Associate Editor at the Books desk.
DULY NOTED
The Tobias Literary Agency will expand to include screenwriters under the header of Tobias Literary Management.
EVENTS
October 3-5
PNBA Fall Trade Show
Portland, OR
October 7-9
MPIBA FallCon 2021
Denver, CO
