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SVP of finance and publishing operations for the HarperCollins US General Books Group, Len Marshall will retire on June 16.
Maribeth Casey and Barbara Blasucci left Hachette Book Group last week as part of the voluntary resignation benefits program. Carol Meadows, Denise Atkinson, Celeste Aiello Gordon, and Linda Jamison left HBG last week as well. Kara Brammer has joined Hachette Books and Hachette Go as associate director of marketing. She was at HarperCollins.
Senior vice president and managing director of global publishing at Wattpad Webtoon Studios Ashleigh Gardner will leave the company at the end of May after a decade with Wattpad.
Sydney Rogers will join as a literary agent at Idea Architects on June 1. She is currently executive editor at Harper One.
Daniel Berkowitz joins Bookshop.org as advertising sales director. He was previously Founder of AuthorPop.
Abby Endler has joined Vintage and Anchor as marketing manager, reporting to Lauren Weber. She was previously in publicity at Knopf.
At Tor Publishing Group, Stephanie Stein has joined as senior editor, acquiring adult science fiction and fantasy. She was previously at Harper Children’s.
Sophie Cudd has joined The Book Group as associate agent, dividing time between Nashville and New York. She was previously an assistant and agent trainee at WME. She will build her list in both adult fiction and nonfiction as well as select children’s picture books.
Hellie Ogden has joined William Morris Endeavor in London as co-head of the books department. She was at Janklow & Nesbit UK. Lucy Balfour has also joined WME as an agent. She was previously a scout at Louise Allen-Jones Associates.
Senior editor Lizzie Davis, associate editor Zoë Koenig, and publicist Daley Farr have all resigned from Coffee House Press. A staff of seven remains.
At W. W. Norton, Metadata operations manager Caroline A. Hayes has left the company.
Colette Burke will join WH Smith the board as a non-executive director on July 1. She is EVP and COO of the LEGO Group.
Chelene Knight will step away from her role as agent at Transatlantic Agency to focus on her writing career and her literary coaching business, Breathing Space Creative. She will remain involved with the agency on a freelance basis and as the internal programs designer.
PROMOTIONS
Vice president, editor-in-chief of Norton John Glusman will step back from managerial duties in July, becoming vice president, executive editor, and continuing to acquire. Glusman has been editor in chief since 2011. Dan Gerstle is promoted to editor in chief.
Lauren Ortiz has been promoted to publicity manager at Little, Brown.
At HarperCollins, Chris Anderson has been promoted to director, finance for the Harper One Group. Tom Pombo has been promoted to executive director, finance, Harper Children’s. Marina Schiffman has been promoted to vp, finance for the Morrow Group. Mike Rohrs has been promoted to vp, finance for the Harper Group and International Foreign Language. Tara Feehan has been promoted to vp, finance projects. Jennifer Civiletto has been promoted to director, backlist. Zaynah Ahmed has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Harper Group. Megan Looney has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Harper Perennial and Harper Paperbacks.
At Harmony Rodale, Dervla Kelly will be transitioning to a role as executive editor, Rodale Books, reporting to publisher Diana Baroni. Katherine Leak has been promoted to assistant editor, reporting to executive editor Donna Loffredo.
Gabriella Doob has been promoted to senior editor at Ecco.
At Morrow Group, Ariana Sinclair has been promoted to associate editor and Tessa James has been promoted to associate editor.
Kristen Bianco has been promoted to senior publicist at Putnam.
Dan Crissman has been promoted to editorial director at Indiana University Press.
Tina McIntyre steps into the expanded role of interim head of publishing and marketing for Wattpad Webtoon Studios and the Wattpad Webtoon Book Group, reporting to president Aron Levitz.
At Bonnier Books UK, Ruth Bennett has been promoted to editorial director, focusing on Piccadilly Press, while still acquiring for Hot Key Books. Ella Whiddett moves up to commissioning editor for both Piccadilly Press and Hot Key Books, focused on YA titles.
Kate Rogers has been promoted to licensing coordinator at KO Media Management.
At ArtHouse Literary Agency, Lane Clarke has been promoted to agent and Carleen Geisler has been promoted to associate agent.
At The Seymour Agency, Cole Lanahan has been promoted to agent.
DULY NOTED
W.W. Norton has announced it will donate 100,000 books to mark its 100th anniversary.
Lawyers for Simon & Schuster and bestselling author Bob Woodward have filed two new motions to dismiss an amended $50 million lawsuit filed by former president Donald Trump, which alleges that Woodward and S&S breached Trump’s copyright interests by publishing The Trump Tapes: The Historical Record.
Authors and illustrators represented by Jordan Hamessley at New Leaf Literary & Media were informed that Hamessley had parted ways with the company and that they would no longer receive representation as a result. The Author’s Guild stepped in to help resolve the dispute.
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