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Jeanne Reina will join the Morrow Group as VP, Art Director, where she will oversee the art group and be responsible for Morrow hardcover, trade paperbacks, and Dey Street Books. She will report directly to HarperCollins SVP, Publisher Liate Stehlik. Previously, she was Art Director at Atria. Update added to the original post on 11/21/14.
Meredith McGinnis will join the Trade Department of W.W. Norton & Company in the newly created position of Director of Marketing. She was previously Director of Marketing at Harmony Books and Clarkson Potter. She will report directly to President Drake McFeely. Update added to the original post on 11/20/14.
Hachette Book Group will acquire Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers in a deal that is expected to close over the next few months. It will become an imprint in HBG’s newest division Hachette Books, which is led by Publisher Mauro DiPreta. Black Dog & Leventhal Founder J.P. Leventhal will continue as Publisher and the company’s management will stay in place. Rebecca Koh will be promoted to Editorial Director and Maureen Winter to Associate Publisher. Update added to the original post on 11/20/14.
Ed Park joined Penguin Press as an Executive Editor. Previously, he was Senior Editor at Amazon’s Little A imprint.
Katherine McCahill joined Penguin Random House as Senior Director, Digital Development.
Courtney Young joined Riverhead Books as Executive Editor. Previously, she was Senior Editor of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Emi Battaglia joined Regan Arts as Director of Marketing and Publicity. She was previously VP, Associate Publisher and Marketing Director at Grand Central Publishing. Additionally, Alexis Gargagliano joined the imprint as Executive Editor of Fiction and Nonfiction. Formerly, she was Executive Editor at Atavist Books.
Elizabeth Bennett has joined Perseus Book Group as Associate Director, Client Services. She was most recently at Random House.
Maha Khalil joined Skyhorse Publishing as Director of Sales and Marketing while Rodger Weinfeld joined as Managing Editor.
Paul Gazzolo joined Gale as Senior VP and General Manager. Previously, he was VP and General Manager of Research & Learning at CCH Wolters Kluwer Tax & Accounting.
Louis F. Yonke is now Senior Director of Finance at Macmillan Higher Education. Previously, he was Director of Finance at Hachette Book Group.
Becky Nesbitt is leaving her position as VP, Editor-in-Chief at Howard Books at the end of the year to pursue opportunities as a freelance editor.
Tracy Locke joined Henry Holt & Company as Publicist-at-Large after leaving her position as Associate Publisher at Penguin Press in May.
Amelia Possanza joined Touchstone as Publicist. She was formerly Associate Publicist at Little, Brown.
Lisa Kaufman will step down as Marketing Director and Senior Editor of PublicAffairs at the end of November after 17 years with the company. She will continue to work with some of her authors and may be contacted at lisabethkaufman@gmail.com.
In children’s publishing, Jennifer McClelland-Smith joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as Marketing Coordinator. Previously, she was Temporary Administrative Assistant in Hachette’s International Sales Department . . . At Klutz, Hannah Rogge joined as Director of Product Development while Caitlin Harpin joined as Senior Product Editor and Flora Kim joined as Product Editor. Before moving to Scholastic, Rogge was Creative Director of ROBIE, Harpin was Assistant Editor at Potter Craft, and Kim was freelancing as a Developmental Editor for Springer Science + Business Media. Katie Benezra joined as Senior Designer. She was previously Designer, Book Group for becker&mayer!. Additionally at Klutz, Barrie Zipkin is now Assistant Managing Editor and Emily Feliberty is Marketing Manager. Zipkin was formerly Reader-at-Large at The Literarian and Feliberty was Assistant Manager of Marketing and Brand Strategy at Toys R Us.
Mark Brokering joined LID Publishing as Associate Publisher. Previously, he was VP of Content Strategy and Acquisition at Safari Books Online.
Ryan Sheehan joined Yorkshire Publishing as Manager.
Sarah Mangiola joined TheReadingRoom as Editorial Manager and Jin Kang joined as Chief Product Officer. Mangiola was Associate Editor at Penton Media.
At literary agencies, Richie Kern joined Foundry Literary + Media as Director of Filmed Entertainment. He was previously Senior Editor, Television Development Executive at Macmillan Entertainment/Thomas Dunne. Additionally, Peter Steinberg and Roger Freet have joined Foundry Literary + Media as Agents. Steinberg was previously Agent at The Steinberg Agency while Freet was Executive Editor at HarperOne . . . Sandy Hodgman left her position as Rights Director at Einstein Thompson Agency to launch Hodgman Literary, which will handle foreign rights for a select group of agencies.
In religious publishing, Steve Cobb, President and Publisher of Crown imprint WaterBrook Multnomah, announced his retirement after 19 years with the company. Meanwhile, it was announced that Alexander Field will join the imprint in the new position of VP, Publisher. Previously he was Publisher at David C. Cook. Additionally, WaterBrook VP and Editor-In-Chief Kenneth Petersen will leave the company at the end of the month.
At university presses, Richard Henning joined the University Press of New England as Director, Marketing and Sales. Previously, he was Director of Marketing at Northeast Foundation for Children. Read More »
