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People Round-Up, Early June 2023

June 14, 2023

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PEOPLE

Sasha Quinton has been named EVP and president of Scholastic’s School Reading Events, the newly formed division that combines the book fairs and book clubs businesses.

Emily Graff has joined Simon Element/Marysue Rucci Books as executive editor. She was previously senior editor at HarperCollins.

Onalee Duane has joined as a demand planning analyst, backlist for Simon & Schuster and Scribner. She was previously at Comcast Advertising. Megan Gendell has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s as production editor for Little Simon, Simon Spotlight, and Aladdin. Jennifer Strada has joined as senior production editor for McElderry Books.

Carlos Hernandez has joined PRH Grupo Editorial as director of sales, special markets, focusing on the Origen imprint. He previously held senior sales positions at Editorial Unilit, Grupo Nelson, and Harper Christian.

At Spiegel & Grau, Jess Bonet has joined as marketing director, reporting to publishing director Nicole Dewey. She was previously at Random House and Book of the Month. Michelle Waters joins Riverhead as marketing manager. She was previously at W.W. Norton.

VP, field sales & account marketing Karen Torres will be leaving Hachette Book Group on July 14. She has been with the company in some form for more than 36 years.

SVP/executive editor Terry Karten retired after 42 years with Harper Collins. Karten began at Harper & Row in 1980. VP, creative director at Harper Children’s Barbara Fitzsimmons is retiring on June 30.

Rachael Marks has joined Chronicle Books as a senior production coordinator and Cydel Virtucio has joined as sales manager for independent specialty sales.

Jennifer Weis has launched The Weis Agency, based in New York City. Weis was a senior agent at Ross Yoon Agency, which was recently acquired by WME, and previously executive editor at St. Martin’s. Shannon O’Neill joins the agency as editorial director. She was previously collaborator and developmental editor at Ross Yoon. Foreign rights will be handled by Kimberly Whalen at The Whalen Agency.

Rafik Dayem has joined Sourcebooks as cyber security engineer.

Mary E. Glenn has been named chief of UN Publications, located at the UN headquarters in New York. She was previously publisher at Humanix Books.

Christine Fisher has been elected president of the board of directors at MacDowell, succeeding Andrew M. Senchak. Fisher has been on the board since 2015.

Managing director and publisher at Atlantic Books Will Atkinson will step down later this year, after a successor is found.

Amy Hosford has joined KN Literary Arts as general manager.

At Microcosm Publishing, Anna-Lisa Sandstrum has joined to head up library sales. She was previously associate director of school & library sales & marketing at Chronicle Books. Abby Rice is joining as marketing supervisor. They were previously store manager of Title IX: A Bookstore in New London, CT. Olivia Rollins has joined as editorial supervisor.

Senior publicist Kayleigh Webb has left DAW Books.

Latoya C. Smith has returned to LCS Literary Services, where she will continue agenting as well as offering editorial and ghostwriting services. She was most recently co-founder of ArtHouse Literary Agency. Michelle Jackson has joined as an agent. She was at Olswanger Literary Agency.

Sarah Jean Grimm has joined as literary publicist at Broadside PR. She was previously at Catapult.

Chelsea Hunter has joined Holiday House, Peachtree, and Pixel+Ink as associate art director, novels and middle grade. She was previously senior designer at Abrams.

Kelly Bergh has joined Lucinda Literary as an agent. Previously an editor in academia, Bergh is building her list in practical nonfiction for adults and children in the areas of health and wellness, spirituality, and popular science.

PROMOTIONS

At HarperCollins’ Broadside Books Eric Nelson has been promoted to VP publisher. Sarah Haugen has been promoted to senior editor at HarperCollins. Asanté Simons has been promoted to editor at William Morrow/Avon. Amy Ryan has been promoted to vp, creative director at Harper Children’s.

Nora Alice Demick has been promoted to marketing director at Riverhead. Christine Johnston has joined Penguin Press as publicity manager. She was previously at Crown.

Heidi Sachner has been promoted to SVP, business development at Open Road.

At Microcosm Publishing, Sarah Koch has been promoted to operations manager. Alex Keiper has been promoted to incoming supply chain manager (Cleveland, OH). Tyler Lane Murphy has been promoted to customer service manager.

At the Jerusalem International Book Forum, Yoel Makov has been promoted to chairman and Sharon Katz has been promoted to director, leading the fair. Hadar Makov Hassan has been named artistic director. The next event will take place from May 26-29, 2024.

Laura Kincaid has been promoted to assistant editor at Holiday House. Amy Toth has been promoted to associate art director, picture books at Holiday House, Peachtree, and Pixel+Ink.

Zach Honey has been promoted to associate agent at FinePrint Literary Management.

Jhonson Eteng has been promoted to creative director at Kensington Publishing.

DULY NOTED

Former longtime CEO of Simon & Schuster from 1975 to 1994 Richard E. Snyder, 90, died at home in Los Angeles on June 6. During his tenure at S&S, the company grew to become the largest book publisher in the world for a time.

Abrams has done another round of layoffs across departments, following a round in April. The company declined to comment on the number of people who were let go.

Penguin Random House has initiated the process of centralizing production, managing editorial, and production editorial into single company-wide departments servicing all divisions and imprints. One clear objective is efficiency, as CEO Nihar Malaviya writes: “When fully implemented, this new structure will better serve our authors by utilizing resources efficiently, exploring new technologies, and standardizing processes where it makes sense. And bringing teams together will expand professional-development opportunities for our production, managing editorial, and production editorial colleagues while scaling our established excellence and expertise in bookmaking.”

Lakeside Book Company, the largest book printer in the US, has acquired Canadian book manufacturer Marquis Book Printing. The brand will remain as a division of Lakeside and Serge Loubier will stay on as president, while the division is led by Lakeside ceo Dave McCree.

Bob Worth, founder of Worth Publishers (now part of Macmillan Learning), died at 92. He founded the company in 1966.

EVENTS

June 14- June 18
Seoul International Book Fair
Seoul, South Korea

June 15- June 18
Nantucket Book Festival
Nantucket, MA

June 18- June 23
Santa Barbara Writers Conference
Santa Barbara, CA

June 19- June 22
Association of Jewish Libraries Annual Conference
(Online)

June 22- June 27
ALA Annual Conference & Exhibition
Chicago, IL

June 30- July 2
Fan Expo Denver
Denver, CO

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International Bestsellers, May 2023

By PT Editors

June 8, 2023

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Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: New Zealand and Philippines. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the original. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”. The lists are taken from major newspapers or national retailers, which are noted at the bottom of each list.

Download the full list as a PDF here.

Posted in International • Tagged A Good Girl is a Dead Girl, A Good Life, A Thousand Boy Kisses, Ada D'Adamo, Alex Michaelides, and Tomorrow, Assembling Alice, Atlas, Baek Sehee, Beatrice Salvioni, Believe Me, Better Than the Movies, Blackwater, Blue Skies, Bonnie Garmus, Carmer Chaparro, Children of the Fable, Christina Lauren, Colleen Hoover, Connemara, crime, Daniel Pennac, Dolores Round, Donna Leon, Dora Heldt, Elisabet Benavent, Elissa Sussman, Elvira Lindo, Eugene Ruge, Eva García Sáenz de Urturi, Ewald Arenz, Felicia Kingsley, Fernando Aramburu, Fourth Wing, Francesca Giannone, Frank Thilliez, Fred Vargas, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Gabrielle Zevin, Harry Whittaker, Holly Jackson, How (Not) to Marry a Duke, How I Did (Not) Write Our Story, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, In the Lion's Den, It Ends With Us, Javier Castillo, Jean-Christophe Grange, John Irving, Julia Quinn, Lawrence Silva, Lessons in Chemistry, Like Air, Love on Bad Days, Love or Eggnog, Lucinda Riley, Lynn Painter, Maggie O’Farrel, Martin Suter, Mazes, Melody, Michael McDowell, Mookie Katigbak-Lacuesta, Niccolò Ammaniti, Nicolas Mathieu, On a Slab, Once More with Feeling, Pompeii, Queen Charlotte, Rebecca Yarros, Red Karma, Riley Sager, Robert Seethaler, Shonda Rhimes, So Shall You Reap, Spike, T.C. Boyle, Tahereh Mafi, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Terminus Malaussène, The Angel of the City, The Brothers Karamazov, The Cafe with No Name, The Crystal Cuckoo, The Devil’s Son by Chloe Wallerand, The Flaw, The House Across the Lake, The Intimate Life, The Last Chairlift, The Malnata, The Married Portrait, The Postwoman, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Seven Sisters, The Shadow Sister, The Silent Patient, The Storm Sister, The True Love Experiment, Tillie Cole, Tomorrow, Two Hearts for Rent, Verity, Virginie Grimaldi, Waiting for the Flood, We Will Have That Left

People Round-Up, Mid-May 2023

By PT Editors

May 25, 2023

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SVP of finance and publishing operations for the HarperCollins US General Books Group, Len Marshall will retire on June 16.

Maribeth Casey and Barbara Blasucci left Hachette Book Group last week as part of the voluntary resignation benefits program. Carol Meadows, Denise Atkinson, Celeste Aiello Gordon, and Linda Jamison left HBG last week as well. Kara Brammer has joined Hachette Books and Hachette Go as associate director of marketing. She was at HarperCollins.

Senior vice president and managing director of global publishing at Wattpad Webtoon Studios Ashleigh Gardner will leave the company at the end of May after a decade with Wattpad.

Sydney Rogers will join as a literary agent at Idea Architects on June 1. She is currently executive editor at Harper One.

Daniel Berkowitz joins Bookshop.org as advertising sales director. He was previously Founder of AuthorPop.

Abby Endler has joined Vintage and Anchor as marketing manager, reporting to Lauren Weber. She was previously in publicity at Knopf.

At Tor Publishing Group, Stephanie Stein has joined as senior editor, acquiring adult science fiction and fantasy. She was previously at Harper Children’s.

Sophie Cudd has joined The Book Group as associate agent, dividing time between Nashville and New York. She was previously an assistant and agent trainee at WME. She will build her list in both adult fiction and nonfiction as well as select children’s picture books.

Hellie Ogden has joined William Morris Endeavor in London as co-head of the books department. She was at Janklow & Nesbit UK. Lucy Balfour has also joined WME as an agent. She was previously a scout at Louise Allen-Jones Associates.

Senior editor Lizzie Davis, associate editor Zoë Koenig, and publicist Daley Farr have all resigned from Coffee House Press. A staff of seven remains.

At W. W. Norton, Metadata operations manager Caroline A. Hayes has left the company.

Colette Burke will join WH Smith the board as a non-executive director on July 1. She is EVP and COO of the LEGO Group.

Chelene Knight will step away from her role as agent at Transatlantic Agency to focus on her writing career and her literary coaching business, Breathing Space Creative. She will remain involved with the agency on a freelance basis and as the internal programs designer.

PROMOTIONS

Vice president, editor-in-chief of Norton John Glusman will step back from managerial duties in July, becoming vice president, executive editor, and continuing to acquire. Glusman has been editor in chief since 2011. Dan Gerstle is promoted to editor in chief.

Lauren Ortiz has been promoted to publicity manager at Little, Brown.

At HarperCollins, Chris Anderson has been promoted to director, finance for the Harper One Group. Tom Pombo has been promoted to executive director, finance, Harper Children’s. Marina Schiffman has been promoted to vp, finance for the Morrow Group. Mike Rohrs has been promoted to vp, finance for the Harper Group and International Foreign Language. Tara Feehan has been promoted to vp, finance projects. Jennifer Civiletto has been promoted to director, backlist. Zaynah Ahmed has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Harper Group. Megan Looney has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Harper Perennial and Harper Paperbacks.

At Harmony Rodale, Dervla Kelly will be transitioning to a role as executive editor, Rodale Books, reporting to publisher Diana Baroni. Katherine Leak has been promoted to assistant editor, reporting to executive editor Donna Loffredo.

Gabriella Doob has been promoted to senior editor at Ecco.

At Morrow Group, Ariana Sinclair has been promoted to associate editor and Tessa James has been promoted to associate editor.

Kristen Bianco has been promoted to senior publicist at Putnam.

Dan Crissman has been promoted to editorial director at Indiana University Press.

Tina McIntyre steps into the expanded role of interim head of publishing and marketing for Wattpad Webtoon Studios and the Wattpad Webtoon Book Group, reporting to president Aron Levitz.

At Bonnier Books UK, Ruth Bennett has been promoted to editorial director, focusing on Piccadilly Press, while still acquiring for Hot Key Books. Ella Whiddett moves up to commissioning editor for both Piccadilly Press and Hot Key Books, focused on YA titles.

Kate Rogers has been promoted to licensing coordinator at KO Media Management.

At ArtHouse Literary Agency, Lane Clarke has been promoted to agent and Carleen Geisler has been promoted to associate agent.

At The Seymour Agency, Cole Lanahan has been promoted to agent.

DULY NOTED

W.W. Norton has announced it will donate 100,000 books to mark its 100th anniversary.

Lawyers for Simon & Schuster and bestselling author Bob Woodward have filed two new motions to dismiss an amended $50 million lawsuit filed by former president Donald Trump, which alleges that Woodward and S&S breached Trump’s copyright interests by publishing The Trump Tapes: The Historical Record.

Authors and illustrators represented by Jordan Hamessley at New Leaf Literary & Media were informed that Hamessley had parted ways with the company and that they would no longer receive representation as a result. The Author’s Guild stepped in to help resolve the dispute.

EVENTS

May 25-28
Warsaw International Book Fair
Warsaw, Poland

May 22-28
Abu Dhabi International Book Fair
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

May 25-June 4
Hay Festival Wales
Hay-on-Wye, Powys, Wales

June 2-June 4
Fan Expo Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA

June 5- June 7
ABA Children’s Institute
Milwaukee, WI

June 5- June 7
LIBER 2023
Budapest, Hungary

June 9- June 11
Fan Expo Dallas
Dallas, TX

Posted in Book View • Tagged Abby Endler, Ariana Sinclair, Aron Levitz, ArtHouse Literary Agency, Ashleigh Gardner, AuthorPop, Barbara Blasucci, Bob Woodward, Bonnier Books UK, Bookshop.org, Breathing Space Creative, Carleen Geisler, Carol Meadows, Celeste Aiello Gordon, Chelene Knight, Chris Anderson, Coffee House Press, Cole Lanahan, Daley Farr, Dan Crissman, Dan Gerstle, Daniel Berkowitz, Denise Atkinson, Dervla Kelly, Diana Baroni, Donna Loffredo, Ecco, Ella Whiddett, Gabriella Doob, Hachette Book Group, Hachette Books, Hachette Go, Harmony Rodale, Harper Children's, Harper Group, Harper One, Harper One Group, Harper Paperbacks, Harper Perennial, HarperCollins, Hellie Ogden, Hot Key Books, Idea Architects, Indiana University Press, Janklow & Nesbit UK, Jennifer Civiletto, John Glusman, Jordan Hamessley, Jordan Hammesly, Kara Brammer, Kate Rogers, Katherine Leak, Knopf, KO Media Management, Kristen Bianco, Lane Clarke, Lauren Ortiz, Lauren Weber, LEGO Group, Len Marshall, Linda Jamison, Little Brown, Lizzie Davis, Louise Allen-Jones Associates, Lucy Balfour, Maribeth Casey, Marina Schiffman, Megan Looney, Mike Rohrs, Morrow Group, New Leaf Literary & Media, Piccadilly Press, Putnam, Rodale Books, Ruth Bennett, Simon & Schuster, Sophie Cudd, Stephanie Stein, Sydney Rogers, Tara Feehan, Tessa James, The Author's Guild, The Book Group, The Seymour Agency, Tina McIntyre, Tom Pombo, Tor Publishing Group, Transatlantic Agency, US General Books Group, Vintage and Anchor, W. W. Norton, Wattpad WEBTOON Book Group, Wattpad Webtoon Studios, WH Smith, William Morris Endeavor, Zaynah Ahmed, Zoë Koenig

International Bestsellers, April 2023

By PT Editors

May 17, 2023

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Every month, Publishing Trends runs fiction international bestsellers lists from four territories–France, Germany, Italy, and Spain. This month, our four regular territories are joined by two more: Brazil and Singapore. Those books that have been published in English are listed with their official English-language title. All others are translated as literally as possible from the original. Where applicable, the US publisher is listed after the local publisher, separated by a “/”. The lists are taken from major newspapers or national retailers, which are noted at the bottom of each list.