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Miriam Parker joined HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint as Associate Publisher. She was previously Marketing Director at Little, Brown.
Additionally at HarperCollins, Harper Paperback and Perennial Editorial Director Cal Morgan will leave his position at the end of this week after 16 years, and will be taking some time off.
As posted earlier, Libby McGuire will step down as EVP and Publisher at Ballantine Bantam Dell at the end of 2015. She can be reached at lmcguire000@gmail.com.
At Crown, Kevin Callahan joined as Marketing Director of Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway. He was Associate Publisher of It Books at HarperCollins. Additionally, Kelsey Lawrence joined as Marketing Manager for Archetype and Three Rivers Press. She was previously Associate Marketing and Digital Strategy Manager at St. Martin’s Press.
Millicent Bennett is now Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing. She was previously Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster. Also at Hachette, Maggie Southard joined Little, Brown as Publicist. She was Associate Publicist at Knopf.
John Joseph Adams joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as Editor-at-Large, running the company’s new science fiction and fantasy line, the first three titles of which will be reissued print versions of Hugh Howey’s SHIFT, DUST, and BEACON 23.
Ronit Wagman left her position as Senior Editor at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday to work as a freelance editor. She can be reached at ronit.wagman@gmail.com.
Macmillan COO Peter Garabedian will retire from his position at the end of December after 16 years.
At Melville House, Chad Felix is now Manager of Direct Sales and Library Marketing. He was Bookseller at WORD Bookstores and Digital Coordinator for the New York Public Library. Ena Brdjanovic also joined as Director of Digital Marketing and Editor of the company’s blog, MobyLives. She was Digital Marketing Coordinator for HarperCollins. Additionally, Kait Howard is now Publicist. She was previously Publicist at Hudson & Thames.
At literary agencies, Wendy Levinson is rejoining Harvey Klinger in the newly created role of Director of Development, beginning at the end of November. She will seek new clients for the agency, focusing on adult fiction and nonfiction, and occasionally YA or middle grade. . . Rachel Burkot joined Holloway Literary as Agent. She was Editor at Harlequin. . . Fuse Literary promoted Connor Goldsmith and Sara Sciuto to Agents. . . Jake Bauman joined New Line in the newly created position of Literary Scout. He previously worked as a Literary Scout for Chernin Entertainment. . . Adriann Ranta is now at Foundry Literary + Media, bringing her clients from Wolf Literary Services with her. . . Anna Stein will join ICM as Agent in their New York office in December. She was previously Agent at Aitken Alexander, where she opened and ran their New York office.
Emily Cervone joined Chronicle Books as Trade Sales Representative, New England. She was Trade Sales Representative at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Colleen Lindsay is now Senior Marketing Manager at Open Road Media. She was Associate Director of Marketing, Social Media and Reader Experience at Berkley/NAL.
Jason Kincade joined Parson Weems Publisher Services as Sales Representative, New York City. He was previously Director of East Coast Operations at Pacific Beach Vinyl.
David Ivester joined digital publisher Reputation Books as Marketing and Publicity Director. He was Marketing and Publicity Manager at Oceanview Publishing.
Elizabeth Rine joined IglooBooks as US Sales Manager. She was Sales Associate at Macmillan.
Janea Brachfeld joined Storey Publishing and Timber Press as Trade Sales Coordinator. She was previously National Accounts Coordinator at Macmillan.
Lisa Sitlwell joined Howard Books as Senior Editor. She was most recently Senior Acquisitions Editor, Gift Books at HarperCollins Christian.
Jolene Barto joined Turner Publishing as Marketing Coordinator. She was Communications Associate at HarperCollins Christian.
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Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know.
On November 18, the Association of American Book Producers (ABPA) hosted a panel on “Developing Winning Kits for Kids and Adults.” The three panelists, ably moderated by Karen Matsu Greenberg, were Richard Burgess, Associate Director Manufacturing Planning at Scholastic, Nanette Delumpa-Roach, the Director of Vendor and Product Compliance at Barnes & Noble and Brooke Lindner, Director of Product Development for Kits and Gifts at Parragon International.
