PEOPLE
At Sourcebooks, Cat Onder joins as VP, Publisher, Children’s Books. Most recently she was SVP, Publisher at HMH Books and Media. Stephanie Beard, lately Executive Editor and Subsidiary Rights Director at Turner Publishing Company, joins as Associate Director of Rights and International Sales. Brittany Mmutle joins as Marketing Manager
Alison Goff joins Quarto as Group Chief Executive Officer. She was previously Chief Executive at Octopus. As previously announced, COO Ken Fund retires from the company on December 1.
Talia Krohn joins Little, Brown Spark as VP, Editorial Director on January 3. She was previously Executive Editor at Currency.
Director and Publisher Fiona McCrae has announced her retirement from Graywolf Press, effective June 2022. She has been with the press since 1994.
Paul Bogaards is also retiring, from his position as EVP, Publicity & Marketing, Deputy Publisher at Knopf, effective January 1. At Pantheon, author and professor David Treuer joins as Editor-at-Large. Matie Argiropoulos joins Penguin Random House Audio as Executive Producer; previously, she was Managing Editor at Macmillan Audio. Melissa Fariello joins Random House Children’s as Associate Production Manager, while Cynthia Lliguichuzhca joins as Associate Publicist. At Berkley, Diana Franco is leaving her position as Associate Director of Publicity and can be reached at diana.m.franco@gmail.com.
Eric Wight, formerly Director of Original Content at Epic!, joins Disney Publishing Worldwide as Executive Editor.
At Baylor University Press, Dave Nelson has been named Director, effective January 4. He is presently Editor of Lutheran Forum.
At Macmillan, Michael Clark, formerly Senior Production Editor at Hachette Book Group, joins as Director of Production Editorial. Julia Sooy joins Odd Dot as Editor; she was most recently Children’s Book Editor at Phaidon.
At Versify Books, Monica Perez will join as Editorial Director on November 29. Most recently she was Executive Editor at Charlesbridge. Rachel Kambury joins Harper Wave and Harper Business as Associate Editor. Previously she was Assistant Editor at Twelve.
In agency news…Lauren Bittrich joins Lucinda Literary as Literary Agent. Victoria Dillman joins Howland Literary as Associate Agent; she was previously Foreign Rights Associate at Sobel Weber Associates. Ramona Pina, formerly Publishing Specialist at BookBaby, joins BookEnds Literary Agency as Associate Agent. At Park & Fine Literary and Media, Kathryn Toolan joins as Foreign Rights Associate.
At Lambda Literary, Sue Landers will step down as Executive Director on December 1. Maxwell Scales and Cleopatra Acquaye-Reynolds will join as Co-Interim Executive Directors while a successor is sought. Scales and Acquaye-Reynolds are both presently Co-Directors at The Audre Lorde Project.
At Chronicle Books, Ryan Hayes, lately Senior Designer at Quirk Books, joins as Senior Designer, Children’s. Yuhong Guo joins as Senior Production Manager; she was most recently Production Director at The Quarto Group. Karli Skelton joins as Senior Designer, Ridley’s Games. Additionally, Barbara Genetin joins as Senior Project Manager.
Ryan Harrington joins Timber Press as Senior Acquisitions Editor. Previously he was Senior Editor at Melville House.
At Holiday House, Alexandra Aceves joins as Associate Editor. She was previously Assistant Editor at Junior Library Guild.
At Johns Hopkins University Press, Kait Howard joins as Senior Publicist.
Kate Jay, formerly PR Coordinator at Dark Horse Comics, joins Mountaineers Books as Publicist.
At Dexterity Books, Lauren Langston Stewart joins as Editorial Manager. Previously she was Editor at HarperCollins Christian Publishing.
At Synergetic Press, Lisa Newcomb joins as Marketing and Public Relations Manager.
Mari Kesselring joins Girl Friday Productions as Book Development Editor.
PROMOTIONS
At Audible, Lori Landew has been named General Counsel.
Following the departure of Paul Bogaards, Todd Doughty now heads the newly-centralized publicity departments of Knopf, Doubleday, and Pantheon-Shocken as SVP, Publicity and Communications, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Reporting to him are Erinn Hartman, now VP, Executive Director of Publicity, running the Knopf publicity department; Michiko Clark, now Senior Director of Publicity, running the Pantheon publicity depaKnopf Doubleday Publishing Grouprtment; Michael Goldsmith, now Senior Director of Publicity, Doubleday; Kim Thornton Ingentino, now Executive Agent Director, Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. Reporting to Erinn Hartman is Nicholas Latimer, VP, Senior Director of Publicity, Knopf. Also at Knopf, Gabrielle Brooks has been promoted to VP, Executive Publicity Director, KDPG and Special Projects; Jessica Purcell has been promoted to Director of Publicity; Emily Reardon moves up to Publicity Manager; Abby Endler and Sarah New both move up to Senior Publicist; and both Amy Hagedorn and Demetri Papadimitropoulos have been promoted to Associate Publicist. At Doubleday, Elena Hershey becomes Associate Director of Publicity, Tricia Cave becomes Publicity Manager, and Jillian Briglia becomes Associate Publicist. At Portfolio/Sentinel, Niki Papadopoulos has been promoted to VP, Editor-in-Chief, while Nina Rodriguez-Marty moves up to Associate Editor and Kimberly Meilun becomes Assistant Editor. Jonathan Morris is now Production Supervisor at Random House Children’s.
At Chronicle Books, Erin Thacker has been promoted to Senior Production Director and Wendy Thorpe moves up to Associate Production Director. Emily Malter moves up to Associate Manager, Events & Sales Enablement.
Jolene Torr has been promoted to Associate Director at University of California Press.
Michelle Sybert is now Assistant Director, Marketing, Sales, and Development at Notre Dame University Press. David Juarez is now Assistant Production Editor.
In agency and scouting news…Lauren Hogan has been named Director of Film & Television Scouting at Franklin & Siegal Associates. James McGowan moves up to Literary Agent at BookEnds Literary Agency.
At The Experiment, Batya Rosenblum is now Executive Editor. Olivia Peluso is now Editor.
Luanne Syrek has been promoted to Systems Analyst Level III at Sourcebooks.
At Flux and Jolly Fish Press, Meg Gaertner is now Senior Acquiring Editor.
Lex Higbee becomes Senior Publicist at Bloomsbury Children’s.
At HarperCollins Children’s Publishing, Mariner Brito moves up to Senior Designer. Lauren Levite is now Senior Publicist. Mitch Thorpe and Anna Bernard have been promoted to Publicity Manager. Shannon Cox, Emma Meyer, and Stephanie Macy each become Marketing Associate. Emma Kupor has been promoted to Assistant Editor at Harper and Harper Wave.
At Simon Element, Ronnie Alvarado has been promoted to Editor. Fiora Elbers-Tibbitts has been promoted to Assistant Editor at Atria.
DULY NOTED
Sourcebooks has purchased B.E.S. Publishing from Peterson’s Publishing, thus acquiring over 800 titles across children’s fiction and nonfiction and adult nonfiction. It is the company’s largest acquisition to date.
Independent Publishers Group’s Midpoint has added new clients: CS Media, effective January 1, 2022; CamCat Publishing, effective June 1, 2022; and Histria Books, effective July 1, 2022. Shanghai Press is now distributed by Midpoint. Oni-Lion Forge Publishing Group will be distributed by IPG Digital beginning December 1.
The Jean V. Naggar Literary Agency will represent the estate of William Carlos Williams, including newly discovered and unpublished work.
EVENTS
November 14-21
Miami Book Fair
Miami, FL
November 25-28
Thessaloniki International Book Fair
Thessaloniki, Greece
November 27-December 5
Guadalajara International Book Fair
Guadalajara, Mexico
December 1-6
Salon du livre et de la presse jeunesse de Montreuil
Montreuil, France
