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Bloomsbury Publishing announced that Daniel Bean, formerly US manager at Cambridge University Press, is joining as sales director, US academic and professional on July 1st. Elena McAnespie joins as academic marketing and publicity director. She was head of sales and marketing at University of California Press until 2021, when she started her own consulting firm.
Macmillan Publishers welcomes Kaustubh Kamat as SVP of technology. Kaitlyn Connors joins as sales assistant, special markets, and trade sales.
At Hachette Book Group, Cara Bedick, previously editorial director of Chronicle Prism has joined Little, Brown Spark as executive editor.
Penguin Random House announced the return of Jennifer Ridgway to the Crown Publishing Group as director of marketing sales. Mor Mezrich has joined Penguin Random House Audio as senior audio engineer. Katie Dutton, previously associate manager for middle grade marketing at Scholastic, has joined Random House Children’s Books as manager for school and library digital marketing.
At Bindery Books, Shira Schindel has joined as acquisitions director. She was formerly the head of acquisitions at Blackstone Publishing until 2023, when she started her own consulting firm. CJ Alberts has joined as marketing manager. Charlotte Strick has joined as creative director.
Pushkin Press UK, which recently bought Steerforth Press, announced that Zandra Rose has joined as an associate manager for marketing and publicity. Meanwhile, Steerforth co-founder, Chip Fleishcer, will remain as a senior editor.
Seminary Co-op Bookstores announced that Jeff Deutsch has stepped down as executive director.
At Urano Publishing, Suzy Swartz has joined as acquisitions editor.
Haymarket Books welcomes Anne Rumberger, formerly sales and marketing director at Verso Books, as sales and marketing director.
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At Folio Literary Management, Veronica Meliksetian joined Folio Jr. as literary and operations assistant.
PROMOTIONS
Penguin Random House has promoted Alyssa Adler to publicity manager at Avery & TarcherPerigee. Lillian Ball has been promoted to assistant director of publicity at Avery & TarcherPerigee. Katie MacLeod-English is being promoted to associate marketing manager at Avery Books & TarcherPerigee. Neda Dallal is being promoted to senior marketing manager at Avery Books & TarcherPerigee. Nick Martorelli has been promoted to senior executive producer at Penguin Random House Audio. Jessie Stratton is being promoted to associate marketing manager at Penguin Press. Heather Palmer has been promoted to associate managing editor at Penguin Random House Audio. Benny Goldmintz has been promoted to managing editor at Penguin Random House Audio. Natalie Capogrossi has been promoted to senior manager for school marketing at Random House Children’s Books.
Macmillan Publishers has promoted Diandra Dinanath to manager of human resource information systems.
Hachette Book Group has promoted Kirsiah Depp to editor at Grand Central Publishing. Kelsey Horton has been promoted to executive editor at Delacorte Press. Sara High has been promoted to the newly created role of VP and director of international and Canada sales.
HarperCollins Publishers has promoted Clare Vaughn and Caitlin Johnson to editor. Sara Schonfeld, Carolina Mancheno Ortiz, and Elizabeth Agyemang have been promoted to senior editor. Carlos Rosario has been promoted to director of content creation and video strategy for Morrow and HarperCollins Children’s Books. Sam Fox has been promoted to senior director of content creation and social media strategy for Morrow and HarperCollins Children’s Books. Danielle Bartlett has been promoted to senior director of publicity at the Morrow Group.
Peachtree Publishing Company has promoted Zoie Konneker to assistant editor at Peachtree and Peachtree Teen.
The University of North Carolina Press has promoted Dawn Durante to editorial director.
Sounds True has promoted Sahar Al-Nima to assistant editor. Sarah Stanton has been promoted to editorial director.
Angry Robot and Datura Books have promoted Caroline Lambe to publicity manager.
Fox Channel Publishing has promoted Erin Turner to associate publisher and editorial director.
DULY NOTED
Bloomsbury Publishing has acquired Rowman & Littlefield, this marks the largest acquisition by Bloomsbury to date at $83 million. The asset sales does not include the Rowman & Littlefield’s other businesses including Globe Pequot (with the exception of the Applause and Backbeat imprints), its trade publishing arm, Sundance-Newbridge, its K-8 education business and National Book Network (NBN), or its trade distribution business.
Florence Minor, best known for numerous picture book collaborations with her husband, illustrator Wendell Minor, died on May 21 after a battle with ovarian cancer; she was 74.
Polis Books – the New York based indie press has closed its doors after 11 years. The press maintained a backlist of 171 books over its tenure which has now been dispersed amongst Bloodhound Books, Open Road Integrated Media, and Datura Books.
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