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Chris Lloreda, VP, Associate Publisher of Atria Books, is retiring at the end of this year, though she will continue to work on projects through February.
Following the announcement of a distribution deal with Random House Publisher Services, for the launch of Quercus U.S., Publishing Director Richard Green tells Publishing Trends “we will be making further announcements shortly about the start-up and staff.”
Robert Marsh will join Rowman and Littlefield as EVP of Finance and Operations when he departs from his CFO position at Bloomsbury at the end of the year.
Jennifer Klonsky, Editorial Director at Simon & Schuster/Simon Pulse, has moved to HarperCollins Children’s as Editorial Director. Farin Jacobs has left to pursue freelance editorial work.
Yassine Belkacemi has joined Dystel & Goderich Literary Management as Project Manager for their ebook program. She had been an intern at the agency and was previously at the National Health Service in Scotland.
Adrianna Dufay joins HarperCollins on October 22 as Director of Digital Product Development. She was at JPMorgan Chase and previously in various positions for AOL. Dufay will support the Avon, William Morrow, Morrow trade paperbacks, Voyager, and HarperOne imprints. Brian Perrin has joined HarperCollins in the same role. He comes from NBC Publishing where he was Director of Digital Development. Prior to NBC Publishing, he held positions at Rodale, B&N, and Running Press, where he was Associate Publisher and Editorial Director for five years. He will support Amistad, Ecco, Harper, Harper Business, Harper Design, Harper Perennial, Harper Trade Paperbacks, and It Books imprints. Both hires will report to HarperCollins VP Marketing Carrie Bloxson. And Ana Maria Allessi has been named VP Digital Innovation, a newly created role, reporting to Chantal Restivo-Alessi, Chief Digital Officer. She will be responsible for planning and executing global digital innovation strategies across all divisions of the company. Alessi, who joined HarperCollins in 2001 as Audio Editor, was most recently VP Publisher of HarperMedia.
Julia Pastore has left Crown, where she was Senior Editor, Crown Archetype and Harmony Books, and she may be reached at pastore.j.a@gmail.com or 917-856-2822. Meanwhile, Crown has hired Wade Lucas as Agent Director of the Random House Speakers Bureau; he will report to Publicity Director David Drake. Lucas was previously at the HarperCollins Speakers Bureau.
Tom Miller has moved to McGraw-Hill, as of October 8, as Executive Editor. He was Executive Editor at Wiley.
Brenda McLaughlin will join Lonely Planet on October 22 as SVP, General Manager of Lonely Planet Americas, reporting to Stephen Palmer. McLaughlin, who was previously at Antenna International, will be responsible for defining and executing the strategy in the US, Canada, and Latin America.
At Open Road, former Pocket Books Editorial Director Maggie Crawford joins the company as a strategic advisor, focusing on commercial fiction, including romance, women’s fiction, thrillers and mysteries, and reporting to Tina Pohlman. Read More »