PEOPLE Hachette announced a series of promotions and realignments on July 15th that included: Running Press and Workman will combine into Workman Running Press Group as of January 1st, 2025. Workman’s Algonquin Books imprint will become part of Little, Brown, reporting to Sally Kim; and Algonquin Young Readers will become part of Little, Brown Children’s,…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Putnam/PRH, Lindsay Sagnette will join as VP, editor in chief, on July 15th. She was most recently VP, editorial director at Atria. Newly reporting to Sagnette are Tara Singh Carlson, Michelle Howry, Daphne Ming Durham, and Kate Dresser. She takes the position previously held by Sally Kim, who moved to Little, Brown as…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Jonathan Shar has been named CEO of Barnes & Noble Education by the company’s board of directors. He succeeds Michael P. Huseby, whose resignation from the position went into effect on June 11th. The National Book Foundation, has elected three new board members, bringing the board total to 23 members: Jonathan Karp, president…Continue Reading
A round-up of people and business moves in the publishing industry for Mid May, 2024.
PEOPLE At Simon & Schuster, Craig Mandeville, VP and general manager at Simon & Schuster, will retire effective July 13. Knopf announced that Emily Cunningham will join as executive editor, effective June 3. She will work on Knopf’s nonfiction list. Cunningham comes to Knopf from Penguin Press, where she is a senior editor. At Macmillan…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Hachette Book Group, Diana Venitmiglia has joined Balance as executive editor, reporting to publisher Nana Twumasi. She was previously at Sounds True. Lauren Roberts joins Little, Brown, as senior publicity manager. She was most recently at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (FSG). Mo Crist will join Bloomsbury as an Editor on Bloomsbury’s Adult…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Bertelsmann CEO Thomas Rabe will exit his role once his contract expires in 2026. At Penguin Random House, Suzanne Herz is rejoining Penguin Random House as publisher of John Grisham, on April 15th, and will report to chief revenue officer Jaci Updike. Alessandra Scarpaci has joined Random House Children’s Books as publicity assistant. At Putnam, Regina…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Co-Founders Madeline McIntosh, Nina von Moltke and Don Weisberg announced the launch of Authors Equity, a new collaborative book publisher. McIntosh holds the title of CEO and Publisher, von Moltke is President and Weisberg is Senior Advisor. In addition Robin Desser has been named Editorial Advisor, Carly Gorga is Chief Marketing Officer and Andrea…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Colin Shields, VP and executive director of global and international sales, is leaving Simon Schuster. Laura Perciasepe, formerly senior editor at Riverhead Books/PRH, is joining Summit Books/S&S as executive editor. Alessandra Balzer and Donna Bray will move from HarperCollins to Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group on April 15 They will set up a new…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Bloomsbury Publishing has appointed Sabrina McCarthy as president of Bloomsbury US, effective in early April. McCarthy will report to CEO Nigel Newton and also sit on Bloomsbury’s global executive committee. Previously, she was the VP and general manager of Ingram Publisher Services. See Promotions, below, for changes at Ingram. Senior editor Daniel Loedel is…Continue Reading
