PEOPLE
Jamie Raab has become Publisher-at-Large for parent company Macmillan, stepping down from her previous role as President of Celadon Books. Imprint cofounder Deb Futter, previously SVP and Co-Publisher, has consequently been named President and Publisher. Elsewhere at Macmillan, Diane Dilluvio, formerly Associate Director at Wolters Kluwer, also joins the company as Senior Production Manager, while Jared Christopher joins as Technical Specialist; Brittany Greenway, lately Account Manager at Rakuten OverDrive, joins as Indie Sales Representative; Ansley Kent, lately Associate, Subrights at Penguin Random House, joins as Sales Associate; and Hemali Patel joins as Junior Cost Accountant. Colin Krainin joins Macmillan Trade as Assistant Director, Sales Planning and Analytics and Chris Venkatesh joins as National Account Manager, Ebooks. Natalia Becerra, lately Sales Associate at Penguin Random House, joins Macmillan Children’s as National Accounts Manager.
Barbara Briel has become the first person to hold the title of President at Sourcebooks, having worked previously as SVP and COO at the company for ten years. Anna Sargeant joins Sourcebooks eXplore, as Editor. She was most recently Acquisitions Editor at B&H Publishing Group.
Following the sale of Follett Higher Education, Follett Corporation, and Follett ACCESS to private investors led by Jefferson River Capital, Emmanuel Kolady, previously SVP, Head of Stories for the eastern half of CVS Retail, will become Follett’s CEO. Ryan Peterson, previously VP of Strategy and Development at VitalSource Technologies, will serve as President.
As Hachette Audio and Workman Audio consolidate, Workman Audio Publisher Ana Marisa Allessi becomes VP, Publisher of Hachette Audio. Anthony Goff, SVP, Audio Publisher at Hachette Audio, will leave the company on February 11. Also resulting from the Hachette acquisition of Workman, Kate Travers, formerly Executive Director of Digital Operations at Workman, joins Hachette’s marketing strategy team as Executive Director of Ecommerce and D2C Business. Other members of the Workman digital operations team joining Hachette are Rina Mody, Senior Product Analyst; Mike Moglia, Associate Business Analyst; SarahMay Harel, Web and D2C Product Manager; and Julia Rittenberg, D2C Operations Analyst.
Seale Ballenger joins Scholastic as VP, Publicity on February 28. Previously he was Publicity Director at Disney Publishing Worldwide.
Effective February 18, Andy Hunter is leaving his position as Publisher of Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press. Alyson Forbes, the company’s present COO, will serve as Interim Publisher.
Milena Brown joins Doubleday as Director of Marketing, effective February 7. Most recently she was Associate Marketing Director at Atria. Brianne Sperber, lately Assistant Marketing Manager at Harmony/Rodale, moves over to Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed as Assistant Marketing Manager. At Penguin Random House Audio, Dakota Cohen, lately Assistant Marketing Manager at Macmillan Audio, joins as Marketing Manager, Listening Library; Kate Smith joins as Associate Publicist, Listening Library; and Kistal Gordon joins as Marketing Associate. Irene Ng joins Harmony/Rodale as Junior Designer. At Penguin Random House Publisher Services, Hope Ellis joins as Managing Editor, Square Enix. She was previously Managing Editor at Berkley.
At HarperCollins, David Wienier, lately Business Affairs Executive at United Talent Agency, joins the legal department as Assistant General Counsel and HarperCollins Productions as Senior Director of Business. Gretchen Schmid joins Harper Via as Editor; she had been Associate Editor at Viking Penguin.
Shona Burns joins Andrews McMeel Publishing as Group Production Director. She worked in the past as Executive Director, Production & Content Management at Chronicle Books.
At The Experiment, Besse Lynch, previously Publicity Manager at Timber Press, and Melinda Kennedy, previously Marketing Manager at the University of Chicago Press, both join as Senior Publicist.
Holly Ingraham joins Alcove Press as Senior Editor. Most recently she was Acquisitions and Developmental Editor at Crazy Maple Studios.
At Insight Editions, Kris Holden joins as Operations Manager. Tiffani Patterson joins as Production Associate. Maria Spano joins as Managing Editor. And Sadie Lowry, formerly Associate Editor at Gibbs Smith, joins as Assistant Editor.
At SiteFusion ProConsult, the newly-formed North American publishing technology venture between SiteFusion and EBCONT, Jeffrey Wood has been announced as President and COO. Most recently he was CRO at Data Conversion Laboratory.
At New Harbinger Publications, Catharine Meyers has been named Publisher. She joined the company in 1995 and succeeds co-founder Matthew McKay, who will remain on staff in a part-tim capacity and serve on the board of directors.
At The Collective Book Studio, Annette Hobbs Magier joins as Senior Director of Marketing and PR. Formerly she was VP of Marketing and Publicity at Independent Publishers Group.
Jodi Rosoff joins Likewise as Director, Publishing Partnerships. She was previously Director, Marketing and Publicity at Grand Central/Forever.
In agency news…Jennifer Chen Tran joins Idea Architects as Literary Agent. She was previously Agent at Bradford Literary Agency.
Diana Gill, most recently Executive Editor at Tor/Forge, has launched a freelance editing and publishing consulting business, Diana Gill Editorial.
Jessica Brock joins Leo PR as Executive Publicist. Formerly she was Senior Publicist and Digital Media Strategist at Berkley.
Katie Reinhard joins Hallmark Publishing as Marketing Manager on February 7. Previously she was Content Manager at Curiosity Stream.
At Verso Books, Tim Thomas, formerly Publicist at Pegasus Books, joins as Publicist.
Ariana Abad joins Bloomsbury Children’s as Associate Publicist.
At The New York Times, Vanessa Mobley, lately Executive Editor at Little, Brown, joins as Op-Ed Editor on February 7.
Cassie Gitkin joins Callisto Media as Production Editor. She was previously Production Editor at Phoenix International Publications.
At the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, Jennifer Rojas has joined as Development Coordinator and Judey Kalchick has joined as Communication and Project Manager.
Raquel Stecher is leaving her position as Senior Online Marketing Manager and Spanish-Language Social Media Specialist at Candlewick Press. She can be reached at quellebooks@gmail.com.
PROMOTIONS
Ben Lee has been promoted to SVP, Associate Publisher, Paperbacks & Backlist at Putnam/Dutton/Berkley. Also at Dutton and Plume, Cassidy Sachs moves up to Editor. Dyana Messina becomes VP and Director of Publicity for Crown and Currency. Also at Crown, Katie Berry becomes Assistant Editor and both Michelle Giuseffi and Madison Jacobs move up to Senior Publishing Manager. At Dial Press, Whitney Frick is now VP and Editor-in-Chief. At Hogarth, Rachel Rokicki is now VP and Director of Publicity, while Parisa Ebrahimi moves up to Executive Editor. In the Random House Group, Mark McCauslin is now VP, Director, Production Editorial; Luisa Francaville becomes Production Director; Heather Williamson, Phil Leung, and Jane Chin each become Associate Production Director; Abby Oladipo becomes Senior Production Editor; and Ashley Pierce moves up to Production Editor. Nick Patton, meanwhile, becomes Prepress Associate Manager, while Hannah Hunt moves up to Prepress Associate. Danielle Deschenes is now Executive Art Director, Gift, and Stephanie Huntwork becomes Executive Art Director, Books. Ayelet Durantt moves up to Senior Director, Marketing. Molly Turpin becomes Senior Editor, and Kaeli Subberwal and Noa Shapiro both become Assistant Editor. Additionally, Stacey Stein becomes Senior Publicist; Erin Richards, Jordan Pace, and Andrea Pura, Publicist; and Courtney Mocklow and Maya Franson, Associate Publicist. Greg Kubie becomes Deputy Director of Publicity for the Random House imprint. Julie Leung becomes Deputy Director, Marketing, Del Rey and Licensing. Stephanie Davis becomes Associate Director, Marketing, Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed; also at those imprints, Chloe Aryeh moves up to Senior Marketing Manager, and Andrea Portanova and Monica Stanton both become Associate Marketing Managers. Jennifer Garza is now VP and Director of Publicity for Ballantine Bantam Dell, while at Ballantine, Allison Schuster is now Associate Marketing Director and Emma Thomasch becomes Associate Marketing Manager. Douglas Mann becomes Assistant Marketing Director at WaterBrook & Multnomah, where Lisa Beech has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity. At Harmony/Rodale, Odette Fleming has been promoted to Senior Marketing Manager. Sierra Moon has been promoted to Marketing Associate, Crown, Currency, Hogarth, and Convergent. At Viking Penguin, Terezia Cicel and Matt Klise both become Editor, while Nidhi Pugalia becomes Associate Editor and Camilla LeBlanc moves up to Assistant Editor. At Knopf, Maris Dyer is now Associate Editor.
At Random House Children’s Books, Noreen Herits has been promoted to VP, Executive Director for Publicity and Media Strategy. Kristopher Kam and Josh Redlich have both been promoted to Assistant Director of Publicity. Kelly McGauley becomes Senior Director, Trade Marketing, Ken Kong becomes Business Manager, and Erica Stone becomes Marketing Associate. Natalie Capogrossi becomes Marketing Manager. At Delacorte Press, Hannah Hill moves up to Editor and Lydia Gregovic moves up to Assistant Editor.
Ashleigh Gardner has become SVP, Publishing at Wattpad Webtoon Book Group.
In the Firebrand Group, Lindsey Lochner has been promoted to EVP of NetGalley.
Paul Olsewski moves up to VP of Publicity for the HarperOne group, and Alison Cerri moves up to Associate Publicist. At HarperVia, Juan Milà is now Editorial Director. At Harper Children’s, Aubrey Churchward is now Senior Manager, Publicity. Nicole Fisher becomes Senior Editor at William Morrow/Avon Books.
At Abrams, Monica Shah has been promoted to VP, Sales. Gaby Paez becomes School and Library Marketing Associate at Abrams Children’s Books.
At Andrews McMeel Publishing, Betty Wong is now Executive Editor and Director, Book Group. Lucas Wetzel becomes Senior Editor, Books. Hannah Dussold becomes Associate Editor, Children’s Books. And Jenny Mohrfeld has been promoted to Managing Art Director, Calendars.
In agency news…Marianna Sharp is now Co-Director of Foreign Rights at the Trident Media Group, where Stephanie Manova moves up to Foreign Rights Coordinator and Sarah McEachern moves up to Foreign Rights Agent.
At Other Press, Alexandra Poreda has been promoted to Senior Editor.
Zakia Henderson-Brown is now Senior Editor at The New Press.
At Likewise, Maria Chaves moves up to Senior Accountant, Alena Chekanov becomes Assistant Editor, and James Collier becomes Editorial Associate. Additionally, Debra Liese is now Senior Curator of Ideas and Partnerships.
Aga Maziarz becomes Senior Accountant at Princeton University Press, while Eleanor Smith moves up to International Rights Associate, Barb Tonetti becomes up Senior Reference Marketing Manager, Donna Walker becomes Data Solutions Architect, and Jessie Yang moves up to Senior Sales Manager.
At Macmillan, Veronica Gonzalez is now Senior Director, Client Services, while Valerie Esposito becomes Senior Client Account Manager; Vanessa Martinez becomes Client Account Manager; and Kaitlyn Herbert becomes Assistant Client Account Manager. At Flatiron Books, Cat Kenney becomes Publicist.
DULY NOTED
Simon & Schuster now handles worldwide trade book sales and retail distribution for TKO Studios and Fabled Films Press.
Macmillan now handles US and Canadian sales distribution for all Harriman House print titles.
Carolyn Forché has been named Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
At the Association of American Publishers, Hachette CEO Michael Pietsch has been formally elected Chair of the Board for 2022-23. Julia Reidhead, Chair and Publisher of Norton, has been elected Vice Chair. Blaise R. Simqu, CEO of Sage Publications, joins the board as Director. Board President Bradley Graham, co-owner of Politics & Prose, resigned and has left the board entirely; Christine Onorati, owner of Word Bookstores, takes over his position.
Macmillan executive Erin Coffey and author Jonathan Putnam join the board of the Book Industry Charitable Foundation, with Putnam additionally serving as treasurer. Annie Philbrick was elected president of the board, Julia Cowlishaw was elected vice-president, and Ken White was elected secretary.
