People Harper Collins has had several major announcements recently: Stephanie Fryling has been named president of sales, leading the US trade sales business across all retail channels and distribution partners. She fills the role vacated last summer when Ed Spade left the company. Judith Curr, president and publisher of the HarperOne Group, has decided to
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People HarperCollins announced that Harper One president and publisher Judith Curr will retire on May 29, after leading the group for eight years. At Harper 360, affiliate publisher Jean Marie Kelly will retire on May 1 after 24 years at the company. Kelly is succeeded by Emily Gerbner, who is promoted to affiliate publisher. In other HarperCollins news, Roxanne Finkelstein takes on the newly created role of director,
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People At Penguin Random House, Amy Trotter joins as manager, inventory operations, reporting to Danielle Procter. Trotter was previously at Amplify Education. Michelle Jaramillo joins as business analyst in the Publishing Operation Systems team. BOOM! continues to undergo restructuring with their integration into Random House Worlds. Associate marketing manager Anthony Mauro and executive editor Kwanza Osajyefo Johnson have been laid off. Michael Kelly will join the RHW leadership team and
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People As widely announced on March 9, Greg Greeley has been named Chief Executive Officer of Simon & Schuster “effective immediately”. He succeeds Jonathan Karp, who had announced that he would step down to launch and lead a new imprint, Simon Six. Most recently, Greeley served as an investor and advisor to a range of technology and consumer companies. From 1999 to
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People Hachette Book Group brings on Rachael Marks as production manager for Little, Brown Children’s. Melanie Bedor joins as production manager for Union Square Kids. She was previously at Harper Collins. On James Patterson’s team Debbie Aroff has joined as vp, director of marketing and brand development, reporting to chief marketing officer Leigh Marchant. She was previously at The Dial Press. Penguin Random House brings on Sophia Opitz joins as assistant
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People Random House brings on Ariana Cruzas developer, corporate bookmaking, supporting business intelligence IT in the data warehouse and business intelligence team. At Random House Children’s, Sarah Wright has joined as associate art director, art and design. Most recently, she was an art director at the LEGO Group. Within Simon and Schuster, vice president and
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PEOPLE At Penguin Random House, Christine Hung has joined the strategic projects group as senior director, reporting to vp George Kantor. She previously led marketing at Vintage. Macmillan’s publisher-at-large, Will Schwalbe, will retire from his role effective January 31 to concentrate full-time on writing books. He will continue working with Macmillan as an advisor.
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PEOPLE At Penguin Random House, Kendall Hinson joins as assistant managing editor, corporate bookmaking, supporting the RHPG managing editorial team. She was previously associate production editor Tapas. Nora Becker joins as assistant managing editor, corporate bookmaking, supporting the Harmony, Rodale, Convergent, and One World imprints. She was previously in the editorial department at the University
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PEOPLE At Hachette Book Group, Ed Spade has joined as senior vice president, commercial operations, reporting to deputy ceo Richard Kitson. Spade was previously president of sales at Harper Collins. Abigail Koons has joined as vice president of subsidiary rights, also reporting to Kitson, and succeeding Nancy Wiese who has left the company. VP, corporate
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