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 Liz Perl, EVP and chief marketing officer at Simon & Schuster, will retire on February 2. She first joined S&S in 2008 after three years as publisher of Rodale Books. Firebrand Group announced that Tom Shawver has been named chief technology officer of Firebrand Technologies and NetGalley, starting January 16. Previously, Shawver served as…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Nina von Moltke, President and Director of Strategic Development at Penguin Random House, is leaving the company in May. In other PRH news Marissa Secreto joins Penguin Random House Audio as Marketing Associate. At Random House Children’s, Isabelle Snyder joins as Junior Designer, Brand and Licensed. At HarperCollins, SVP, International Sales David Wolfson has…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Macmillan, CFO Dan Schwartz will leave the company on October 14. Holt VP and Executive Director of Publicity Pat Eisemann is retiring on December 2. Arriel Vinson joins Holt as Marketing Manager, having worked previously as Marketing Coordinator for Catapult/Counterpoint/Soft Skull Press. Jazz Key joins Macmillan as Associate Sales Manager, Special Markets, and…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Two years after joining Simon & Schuster as publisher of the adult imprint, SVP Dana Canedy is stepping down to write a sequel to her memoir, A Journal for Jordan. Her sequel, which Simon & Schuster plans to publish in 2024, is currently untitled. Canedy was previously administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. Diana Miller…Continue Reading
PEOPLE With the previously announced retirement of long-time Graywolf Press director and publisher Fiona McCrae, the Press has announced that Carmen Giménez will be joining in the role of executive director and publisher, beginning August 8th. She had been publisher of Noemi Press, which she and Evan Lavendar-Smith founded in 2002. At Simon & Schuster,…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Firebrand Group, founder and longtime head Fran Toolan will retire at the end of January 2023, to be succeeded by Angela Bole, presently CEO of the Independent Book Publishers Association. Toolan will continue on as a member of the Firebrand board of directors. Tara Catogge has been named COO of Insight Editions and…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Julia Sommerfeld, Publisher of Amazon Publishing, has been named Head of Brilliance Publishing, in addition to her existing duties. Christopher Werner joins as Editorial Director; he worked previously as Executive Editor for Amazon Publishing. At Pearson, Sulaekha Kolloru has joined as Chief Strategy Officer. Most recently she was VP of International Portfolio Strategy and…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Jon Yaged has been named successor to Don Weisberg as CEO of Macmillan. Weisberg will leave the company at the end of the year. At Celadon, critic and professor Jabari Asim joins as Literary Acquisitions Advisor on June 20. Brian Scharp joins Nelson Books as VP of Marketing. He worked in the past as…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Beacon Press, Gayatri Patnaik has been named Director, effective June 30, following the retirement of longtime director Helen Atwan. Patnaik has worked at Beacon for twenty years, most recently as Publisher. Avideh Bashirrad joins One World and Dial Press as SVP and Deputy Publisher. She was previously SVP, Deputy Publisher at Random House. Tiffani Ren also joins One…Continue Reading
