PEOPLE Molly Stern, formerly Publisher of Crown, is starting a new publishing company, Zando, and will serve as Chief Executive. The venture’s first books will be published in Fall 2021. Alexander Czik, has been named Director of Operations and Strategy. He was most recently Associate, Group Strategy and M&A at Macmillan. Penguin Random House is…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Liesa Abrams will join Random House Children’s on November 9 as VP, Editor-in-Chief for the new Labyrinth Road imprint, which is set to launch in 2022. She had been Editorial Director at Simon Pulse until earlier this year, when reorganization in the Simon & Schuster Children’s group shifted her to Executive Editor-at-Large. At Ballantine,…Continue Reading
PEOPLE In the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Kristin Fassler returns to Penguin Random House in the newly-created position of SVP, Director of Integrated Marketing Strategy. Most recently she was VP, Director of Integrated Marketing at Simon & Schuster. Jamia Wilson joins Random House as VP, Executive Editor, beginning January 4. She was most recently Executive…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Announced this morning, John Sargent will depart as CEO of Macmillan and Executive VP of Holtzbrinck on January 1. Don Weisberg, President of Macmillan US Trade, will succeed him as CEO of Macmillan Publishers, while Susan Winslow, General Manager of Macmillan Learning, will head that division as President. Also at Macmillan, LaToya Rose has…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Beginning October 19, Andy Bird will take over as CEO of Pearson. Current CEO John Fallon will continue in the position until then, at which point he will step down from the board and remain as an advisor for the remainder of the year. Kurt Mueller is joining Inkshares as COO. He was previously…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At WaterBrook & Multnomah, Sarah Rubio joins as Executive Editor and Bunmi Ishola joins as Editor. Rubio was previously Senior Editor at Tyndale House and Ishola was previously Editorial Project Coordinator at Kidsbooks. At Scholastic, Alex Kelleher-Nagorski joins as Associate Director of Publicity. He was previously Publicity Manager at Little, Brown Children’s. Ingram Spark…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Nan A. Talese will retire from her position as President, Publisher, and Editorial Director of her own imprint at Doubleday at the end of the year. She joined Random House in 1959 as a copywriter and went on to found the Nan. A Talese imprint in 1990. Elsewhere at PRH, Comedian Phoebe Robinson is…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Dana Canedy is the newest EVP and Publisher at Simon & Schuster, succeeding Jonathan Karp, who has taken over as President and CEO. She had been the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes since 2017 and was previously Reporter and Senior Editor at The New York Times. PubWest has named Forté Business Consulting as its…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Jonathan Karp has been named President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, succeeding Carolyn Reidy, who died suddenly on May 12. Karp had been President and Publisher, Adult Publishing. As the result of reorganization at Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Mara Anastas, VP and Publisher of Aladdin and Simon Pulse, will depart after over…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Following the departure of Bruce Nichols from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Deb Brody has been named VP, Publisher of the adult trade division. Brody has been with HMH since 2016, when she joined as Editorial Director from her previous position as Executive Editor at William Morrow. Justin Schwartz, previously Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…Continue Reading
