PEOPLE
At Macmillan, CFO Dan Schwartz will leave the company on October 14. Holt VP and Executive Director of Publicity Pat Eisemann is retiring on December 2. Arriel Vinson joins Holt as Marketing Manager, having worked previously as Marketing Coordinator for Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. Jazz Key joins Macmillan as Associate Sales Manager, Special Markets, and Lauren McNamara joins as Coordinator, Custom Sales. And Joshua Judd Porter joins Farrar, Straus & Giroux as Assistant Publicist.
Molly Birnbaum joins Ten Speed Press as VP and Editor-in-Chief. She was Founding Editor of America’s Test Kitchen Kids.
Jonathan M. Walker has been named VP, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Association of American Publishers. Previously he was a dean at George Washington University.
At Simon & Schuster, Danielle Prielipp joins as Marketing Director. Previously she was Assistant Director, Marketing & Email Strategy at St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Melissa Posten, previously Children’s Book Buyer and Director of Inventory at The Novel Neighbor, joins as Telemarketing Account Manager, Southern Region. Brandi Stewart joins as Telesales Account Manager, Western Region. She was previously Children’s Buyer at Changing Hands. Additionally, Kayleigh Webb has left her position as Senior Publicist and Marketer at Gallery Books and Saga Press.
Gregory Brandenburgh joins Mango Publishing’s international rights and sales team. Most recently he was VP and Hampton Roads Associate Publisher at Red Wheel Weiser before retiring from the company at the end of 2021.
At Insight Editions, Tim Golden, lately Director of Sales for Special Markets and New Business Development at Sourcebooks, joins as Director of Business Development Sales. Aliya Burke joins as Associate Director of Marketing; she was previously Marketing Manager at FSB Associates. Alexis Colón-Philabaum, formerly Senior Analyst at The TJX Companies, joins as Licensing Specialist. And Benjie Reyes joins as Performance Marketer.
Diane Landolf has announced a new children’s editorial business, Diane Landolf Editorial. Most recently she was Senior Editor at Random House Children’s.
In agency news, Adefisayo Adeyeye joins Andrea Brown Literary Agency as Contracts/Royalty Coordinator.
Tara Lehmann joins Abrams as Senior Publicist. She was formerly Publicity Director at Oni Press.
At little bee books, Steph Stilwell rejoins the company as Senior Designer. Most recently she was Art Director at Hello!Lucky.
Sabrina Young, lately Executive Editor at Callisto Media, joins Kevin Anderson & Associates as Senior Editor.
At university presses…Dawn Durante joins the University of North Carolina Press as Assistant Editorial Director, starting October 17. She was most recently Editor-in-Chief at University of Texas Press. Molly Woolbright, formerly Senior Publicist at Sasquatch Books, joins University of Washington Press as Publicity Manager. Grigory Tovbis will join Harvard University Press as Senior Editor for Economics, Law, and Technology on November 1; he was previously Senior Editor at Metropolitan Books. At the University of Pittsburgh Press, Will Masami Hammell, previously Senior Academic Writer and Editor for the Department of Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, joins as Senior Acquisitions Editor. At Yale University Press, Marty Gosser joins as National Accounts Manager. In the past he was Accounts Manager for Perseus Books Group.
At Andrews McMeel Publishing, Marya Pasciuto joins as Editor; she was previously Editor at Callisto Media.
Andrew Nguyen, lately Assistant Editor at Gallery Books/Simon & Schuster, joins Bloomsbury as Assistant Rights Manager. Hannah Rivera joins as Assistant Editor.
Alice Mesjak joins Abraham Associates as Sales Rep.
