PEOPLE
Margot Atwell has been named Executive Director and Publisher of The Feminist Press. She most recently worked as Director of Outreach and International for Kickstarter.
At Melville House, Janet Joy Wilson joins as VP, Sales. She was previously Senior Executive Sales Director at Penguin Random House Canada.
Leigh Nash will join House of Anansi as Publisher on April 19. She is currently Publisher at Invisible Publishing.
LuAnn Walther, SVP and Editorial Director of Vintage Books, Anchor Books, and Everyman’s Library, will retire on July 1. She was the founder of Bantam Classics and worked in the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group for thirty years. At Knopf Doubleday, Kelsey Manning joins as Associate Director of Marketing, moving over from the consumer marketing team. Asharee Peters joins as Associate Manager on March 28; she was previously Marketing Coordinator at Macmillan. Sophie Normil, lately Assistant Publicist at William Morrow, joins Vintage/Anchor as Marketing Associate. At Random House Children’s, Jade Hector, previously Designer at Abrams, joins as Designer; Michelle Crowe, previously Senior Designer at HarperCollins, joins as Designer; and Megan Shortt joins as Junior Designer. Lois Evans, lately Assistant Editor at Random House, moves over to Make Me A World as Editor.
At Candlewick Press, John Mendelson, SVP, Sales Director, and Walker Books Group Sales Director for the US and Canada, has left the company.
Hachette Book Group has announced a plan to combine the HBG and Workman sales and subrights teams, which took effect on March 14. Consequently, a number of people have joined HBG from Workman. Jodi Weiss joins the sales team as VP, Sales Strategy and Business Development and Workman Liaison. James Wehrle joins as Executive Director, Sales Operations. Katherina Gadow joins the digital and online team as National Accounts Manager. Caitlin Kleinschmidt joins the chain sales team as Senior National Accounts Manager and Workman Backlist Liaison. Liz Hunter joins as Associate Director, Field Sales and Christian Westermann joins as Associate Manager, Field Sales and Account Marketing. Adelia Kalyvas joins as Executive Director, Gift and Specialty Retail Sales. Jenny Mandel joins as Executive Director of Premium, Author Sales, and New Markets. And Kendra Poster joins as Director, Subsidiary Rights.
At Blackstone Publishing, John Lawton joins as Director of National Accounts. Previously he was SVP of Sales at Penguin.
At Workman, Suzie Bolotin, Publisher and Editorial Director of the adult, children’s, and calendar imprints, will retire on April 29, and current calendar publisher Janet Harris will retire on June 15. Page Edmunds will become Publisher, Workman Calendars on May 2; she is presently Executive Associate Publisher at Workman.
Steven Sussman will retire as Sales Director at Skyhorse at the end of the month.
In agency news, JL Stermer is launching Next Level Lit. She was previously Literary Agent at New Leaf Literary & Media.
Marina Padakis Lowry joins Union Square & Co. as Executive Managing Editor. Previously she was Senior Managing Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
At the University of Wisconsin Press, Founding Editor Ron Wallace is stepping down as editor of the Wisconsin Poetry series. Poet Jesse Lee Kercheval joins as Series Coeditor.
Pamela Paul is stepping down as Editor of The New York Times Book Review to join the paper’s Opinion section as a columnist.
At Zando Projects, Allegra Green joins as Senior Marketing Manager. Previously she was Senior Marketing Manager at Wiley.
At HarperCollins Christian Publishing, Camille Smaby joins as Marketing Manager, Online Optimization.
Marty Gosser joins Chelsea Green as Trade Sales Manager. Previously he was National Accounts Manager for Perseus Books Group.
At Abrams, Natalie Padberg Bartoo joins as Designer, Abrams Books for Young Readers and Appleseed. She was previously Designer at little bee.
Alyssa Garcia joins Sourcebooks Casablanca as Associate Marketing Manager.
Maria Orlandi joins Adams Media as Marketing & Publicity Associate.
At Bloomsbury, Ragav Maripudi joins as Assistant Editor.
At Printers Row Publishing, Vanessa Carrington joins as Inventory Manager. Sarah Gosnell joins as Production Manager. Laura Higueras joins as Digital Marketing Specialist. And Bryten Holborow joins as Publicity Coordinator.
PROMOTIONS
Susan Winslow has been named CEO at Macmillan Learning. She is the first woman to lead the educational publisher and has been serving as President since September 2020.
Carrie Bloxson has been promoted to VP and Chief Diversity Officer at Hachette Book Group. Min Lee moves up to EVP and General Counsel. Stephan Mubarek is now EVP and CFO. Michael Gaudet has been promoted to VP of Digital Operations. Dorothy Bara becomes Production Director, Marie Mundaca becomes Production Design Manager, and Kate Lopaze moves up to Senior Digital Supply Chain Coordinator. Lindsay Ricketts, Jennifer Tordy, and Jamie Klingensmith each become Senior Production Associate. Medina Cekovic is now Associate Marketing Manager, while Greta Shull becomes Senior Manager, Backlist Manager and Metadata and Brenna Haney becomes Metadata Associate. Lauren Shade is now Senior Marketing Manager, Brett O’Grady is now Marketing Manager, and Jen Hill becomes Senior Manager of Marketing Analytics. Jake Regier has been promoted to Associate Production Editor. Michelle Welsh-Horst has been promoted to Senior Manager, Production Editorial. And in contracts, Janet Saines-Cardozo is now Senior Contracts Director; Camille O’Garro, Contracts Director; Desiree Pabon, Contracts Manager; and Amanda Moore, Contracts Associate.
Elsewhere in the company: At Perseus Books, Susan Weinberg has been promoted to EVP and Publisher. At Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Megan Tingley has been promoted to President and Publisher. Jackie Engel becomes VP, Deputy Publisher and Emilie Polster becomes VP, Executive Director of Marketing. Savannah Kennelly moves up to Digital Marketing Manager and Mara Brashem moves up to Digital Marketing Coordinator. Jenny Kimura moves up to Senior Designer, Jessica Mercado moves up to Senior Graphic Designer, Angelie Yap becomes Designer, Patrick Hulse becomes Assistant Designer, and Prashansa Thapa is now Junior Designer. Deirdre Jones has been promoted to Executive Editor. Ruqayyah Daud is now Associate Editor. At Basic Books/Seal, Lara Heimert has become SVP, Publisher, while Jenny Lee becomes Senior Publicist and Michael Kaler becomes Associate Editor. At Little, Brown and Company, Brandon Kelley moves up to Executive Director, Marketing Operations, Lauren Hesse becomes Senior Director of Social Media, and Jessica Chun becomes Senior Director of Marketing, Spark and Voracious. Julianna Lee is now Senior Art Director. Alyssa Persons moves up to Publicity Manager, while Maggie Cannon becomes Publicity and Marketing Associate and Bowen Dunnan becomes Associate Editor and Marketing Associate. Ben George is now Executive Editor; Jean Garnett, Senior Editor; and Thea Diklich-Newell and Evan Hansen-Bundy, both Assistant Editor. At Hachette, Lauren Marino and Brant Rumble are both promoted to Editorial Director; Michael Barrs, to Executive Director of Marketing; Michael Giarratano, to Assistant Director of Publicity; and Mollie Weisenfeld, to Associate Editor. At Hachette Audio, Cindy Joy has been promoted to Art Director; Nita Basu, to Senior Manager, Marketing & Publicity; Thomas Mis, to Senior Production Manager, Senior Producer; and Ghenet Harvey, to Associate Production Manager. At Orbit, Brit Hvide moves up to Executive Editor and Tiana Coven becomes Assistant Editor. In publicity and marketing at Grand Central, Joseph Benincase has been promoted to Associate Director, Marketing Operations, Tiffany Porcelli is now Senior Marketing Manager, Alana Spendley is now Assistant Marketing Manager, and Ivy Cheng is now Associate Publicist. Also at GC, Daniela Medina moves up to Art Director, while Tree Abraham becomes Associate Art Director and Sarah Congdon becomes Senior Designer. Kirsiah McNamara becomes Associate Editor and Jacqueline Young becomes Assistant Editor. Leah Hultenschmidt is now Associate Publisher, Forever, where Sabrina Flemming becomes Assistant Editor. Estefania Acquaviva moves up to Publicity & Marketing Associate, Twelve.
As part of HBG and Workman’s consolidation efforts, a number of promotions have been announced. In sales, Barbara Slavin is now Executive Director, Digital Business Development and Sales. Amy Callahan is now Senior Coordinator, Sales Analytics. Fantasia Brown moves up to Digital Accounts Representative. In chain sales, Meg Miguelino is now Senior National Accounts Manager and HBG Backlist Liaison and Genesis Quijije becomes Senior Coordinator. Julie Hernandez becomes Executive Director, Trade Wholesale and Academic and Library Marketing, while Melissa Nichols moves up to Senior Director, Library and Academic Marketing; reporting to her from Workman are Annie Mazes, Senior Manager, Library and Academic Marketing, Adult, and Caitlin Rubenstein, Senior Manager, Children’s Library Sales and Marketing. Reporting to her from HBG is Alyson Powers, Manager of Academic Marketing, with Yesenia Corporan assisting as Sales Coordinator. In field sales, Joanna Host moves up to Manager, Conference and Events Planning and Nancy Kriz becomes Senior Sales Liaison. Now reporting to Sara High on the international sales team from Workman are Erika Tucker, Senior Manager and Becky O’Malley, Associate Director, UK Sales & Marketing; reporting from HBG is Tracy Williams, Director. Jennifer Gray, Senior Manager, and Luis Salomon-Rodriguez, now Senior Coordinator, continue to report to Tracy Williams. For Canada, Leah Collins Lipsett becomes National Account Manager and Angela Gatti becomes Marketing and Operations Coordinator. In the three channel-focused special markets groups, Sharon Huerta becomes Executive Director of the special sales, educational sales, and specialty wholesale group; reporting to her from HBG are Barbara Blasucci, Account Manager, Morgan Amer, Account Manager, and Destiny Marie Roman, Sales Coordinator; while reporting to her from Workman are Elizabeth Drooby, Assistant Manager, Amy Carey, Account Manager, and Cynthia Ramirez, Sales Coordinator. Reporting to Adelia Kalyvas under the gift and specialty retail sales group from HBG are Alexis Kuzma, Senior Manager, Gift Sales and Frankie Johnson, Account Manager; from Workman, Valerie Alfred, Senior Account Manager, Mary Rose Amoresano, Account Manager, Amanda German, Assistant Manager, Marisol Caballero, Sales Support Specialist, and Jean Vargas, Sales Coordinator. And reporting to Jenny Mandel under the premium, author sales, and new markets group are, from HBG, Carol Meadows, Director, Premium and Author Sales, and from Workman, Emily Krasner, Director, Premium and Proprietary Sales, and Suzanne Bullet and Tina Parent, both Account Manager, Specialty Retail. Finally, in subsidiary rights, Amber Hoover is promoted to Senior Director, with Maribeth Casey, Director, Subsidiary Rights, Storey & Turner, reporting from Workman. Laura Piasio moves up to Subsidiary Rights and Permissions Manager, while Zoe Morgan-Weinman becomes Coordinator.
At Workman, Lia Ronnen has been named Publisher and Editorial Director for the adult publishing program, effective May 2. She will continue as Publisher and Editorial Director of Artisan.
Debra Zakarin becomes Publisher, Senior Director of Printers Row’s children’s imprints, while Autumn Heath becomes Editor/Managing Editor for the same. Kaitlyn Lockwood is now Associate Publisher and Director of Silver Dolphin. At Printers Row Publishing Group, Bernadette Baillie has been promoted to Senior Director of Marketing; Viet Dong becomes Director of International Logistics; Andi Landes becomes Publishing Operations and Inventory Manager; Kathryn Dalby moves up to National Account Manager, Custom and Proprietary Sales; Rebecca Cota moves up to Direct Sales Operations Manager; and Taylor Carter becomes Senior Marketing Manager, Social Media.
Frances Soo Ping Chow has been promoted to VP, Creative Director at Running Press. Susan Van Horn moves up to Associate Design Director. Frank Sipala moves up to Director of Product Development. At Running Press and Black Dog & Leventhal, Kara Thornton moves up to Associate Director of Publicity and Amy Cianfrone becomes Senior Marketing Manager, Licensing.
At St. Martin’s Publishing Group, Martin Quinn is now Director, Marketing and Bookselling Strategy. Kirsi Balazs moves up to Associate Manager, Marketing & Sales Operations, and Alexis Neuville moves up to Associate Manager, Marketing. Jessica Zimmerman is now Associate Director of Publicity, while Rowen Davis moves up to Senior Designer, Nikolaas Eickelbeck moves up to Designer, and Soleil Paz is promoted to Associate Designer. At Wednesday Books, Kerri Resnick becomes Senior Art Director. At Minotaur Books, Sarah Melnyk has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity, and Kayla Janas is now Senior Publicist. And at St. Martin’s Press, Alexandra Sehulster becomes Senior Editor and Lily Cronig becomes Assistant Editor.
Emily Murphy becomes Associate Director of Marketing for Knopf. Lindsay Mandel moves up to Senior Manager for Doubleday. At Random House Graphic, Danny Diaz becomes Assistant Editor.
At HarperCollins, Gillian Wise has been promoted to Associate Director, Special Markets. Sarah Kwak moves up to Senior Editor for Harvest. Danielle Finnegan moves up to Assistant Manager, Marketing for William Morrow, while Holly Rice becomes Publicist for the same. And at HarperCollins Children’s, Alexandra West is now Editor.
Angela Corpus is now Associate Director, Children’s Marketing at Quarto.
In agency news, Delia Berrigan and Lindsay Guzzardo have both been promoted to Senior Literary Manager at Martin Literary and Media Management.
At Abrams, Kristen Milford is now Senior Marketing Manager and Mary Marolla is now Senior Publicist.
At Adams Media, Mary Kate Schulte moves up to Marketing and Publicity Manager.
Darby Guinn has been promoted to Associate Marketing Manager, School & Library for Holiday House, Peachtree Publishing Company, and Pixel + Ink.
Krestyna Lypen has been promoted to Senior Editor at Algonquin Young Readers. At Algonquin Books, Amanda Dissinger is now Publicity Manager and Ashley Mason is now Associate Managing Editor.
At Avalon Travel, Hannah Brezack has been promoted to Managing Editor for the Moon series.
At the University of North Carolina Press, Andreina Fernandez, Maria Garcia, and Andrew Winters have each been promoted to Editor.
Phoebe Dyer is now Assistant Social Media Manager, Children’s and Adult at Bloomsbury.
DULY NOTED
The ESPN media network Andscape is launching an imprint with Disney Publishing Worldwide, to be called Andscape Books. The imprint will publish thirty titles a year, covering narrative nonfiction, memoir, young adult, and children’s titles. Disney Publishing Editorial Director Jennifer Levesque will lead the imprint, and Executive Editor Kelli Martin will also be acquiring and editing. Both will work with Andscape Editor-in-Chief Raina Kelley.
Sourcebooks has acquired the Baltimore-based, minority-owned publisher duopress, which has been distributed to this point by Workman. duopress will become an imprint of Sourcebooks Kids, publishing fifteen titles a year; founder Mauricio Velázquez de León will join Sourcebooks as Founder and Editorial Director of duopress on April 1.
Abrams now distributes Bungie titles worldwide and is taking orders for all backlist and frontlist titles. PGW will accept returns on Bungie titles for the ninety days after March 1.
