Tag Archives: Karen Torres

People Round-Up, Early June 2023

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…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early March 2015

PEOPLE Anja Schmidt has joined Oxmoor House as Editorial Director.  She was most recently US Publisher at Kyle Books and previously, Executive Editor at DK. Robert Riger is leaving his position as VP & Director, Pimsleur Foreign Language Programs at Simon & Schuster Audio in mid-March.  Previously, he held positions at Barnes and Noble, Penguin, and Sparknotes and was a co-founder of Market Partners…Continue Reading

People Roundup, Mid-October 2012

PEOPLE 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…Continue Reading