People Round-Up, Mid-November 2015

PEOPLE

Miriam Parker joined HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint as Associate Publisher. She was previously Marketing Director at Little, Brown.

Additionally at HarperCollins, Harper Paperback and Perennial Editorial Director Cal Morgan will leave his position at the end of this week after 16 years, and will be taking some time off.

As posted earlier, Libby McGuire will step down as EVP and Publisher at Ballantine Bantam Dell at the end of 2015. She can be reached at lmcguire000@gmail.com.

At Crown, Kevin Callahan joined as Marketing Director of Crown, Hogarth, Tim Duggan Books, and Broadway. He was Associate Publisher of It Books at HarperCollins. Additionally, Kelsey Lawrence joined as Marketing Manager for Archetype and Three Rivers Press. She was previously Associate Marketing and Digital Strategy Manager at St. Martin’s Press.

Millicent Bennett is now Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing. She was previously Senior Editor at Simon & Schuster. Also at Hachette, Maggie Southard joined Little, Brown as Publicist. She was Associate Publicist at Knopf.

John Joseph Adams joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as Editor-at-Large, running the company’s new science fiction and fantasy line, the first three titles of which will be reissued print versions of Hugh Howey’s SHIFT, DUST, and BEACON 23.

Ronit Wagman left her position as Senior Editor at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday to work as a freelance editor. She can be reached at ronit.wagman@gmail.com.

Macmillan COO Peter Garabedian will retire from his position at the end of December after 16 years.

At Melville House, Chad Felix is now Manager of Direct Sales and Library Marketing. He was Bookseller at WORD Bookstores and Digital Coordinator for the New York Public Library. Ena Brdjanovic also joined as Director of Digital Marketing and Editor of the company’s blog, MobyLives. She was Digital Marketing Coordinator for HarperCollins. Additionally, Kait Howard is now Publicist. She was previously Publicist at Hudson & Thames.

At literary agencies, Wendy Levinson is rejoining Harvey Klinger in the newly created role of Director of Development, beginning at the end of November. She will seek new clients for the agency, focusing on adult fiction and nonfiction, and occasionally YA or middle grade. . . Rachel Burkot joined Holloway Literary as Agent. She was Editor at Harlequin. . . Fuse Literary promoted Connor Goldsmith and Sara Sciuto to Agents. . . Jake Bauman joined New Line in the newly created position of Literary Scout. He previously worked as a Literary Scout for Chernin Entertainment. . . Adriann Ranta is now at Foundry Literary + Media, bringing her clients from Wolf Literary Services with her. . . Anna Stein will join ICM as Agent in their New York office in December. She was previously Agent at Aitken Alexander, where she opened and ran their New York office.

Emily Cervone joined Chronicle Books as Trade Sales Representative, New England. She was Trade Sales Representative at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Colleen Lindsay is now Senior Marketing Manager at Open Road Media. She was Associate Director of Marketing, Social Media and Reader Experience at Berkley/NAL.

Jason Kincade joined Parson Weems Publisher Services as Sales Representative, New York City. He was previously Director of East Coast Operations at Pacific Beach Vinyl.

David Ivester joined digital publisher Reputation Books as Marketing and Publicity Director. He was Marketing and Publicity Manager at Oceanview Publishing.

Elizabeth Rine joined IglooBooks as US Sales Manager. She was Sales Associate at Macmillan.

Janea Brachfeld joined Storey Publishing and Timber Press as Trade Sales Coordinator. She was previously National Accounts Coordinator at Macmillan.

Lisa Sitlwell joined Howard Books as Senior Editor. She was most recently Senior Acquisitions Editor, Gift Books at HarperCollins Christian.

Jolene Barto joined Turner Publishing as Marketing Coordinator. She was Communications Associate at HarperCollins Christian.

PROMOTIONS

At Penguin Random House, Riverhead Books Publisher Geoff Kloske was given the additional title of President. Steve Kerzel was promoted to Associate Director, Distribution Systems, Alyssa Oles to Director, Fulfillment Operations and IT Services, and Alison Martin to VP, Customer Service and Data Management. Martha Rago was promoted to the newly created position of Executive Creative Director at Random House Children’s, reporting to SVP, Associate Publisher Judith Haut. Additionally, Allison Judd joined Random House Children’s as Publicist. She was Publicity Assistant at Crown. At DK Publishing, Jay Franco was promoted to Associate Sales Director, Bookclubs, Premium and Custom and Kathi Gadow to Sales Coordinator, Online and Digital.

Shawn Nicholls was promoted to Associate Publisher for Avon, Mass Marketing and Witness, and Impulse at HarperCollins.

At Macmillan, Dan Schwartz is now SVP, Finance and Strategy and Esther Kim is now Director of Business Planning.

Melville House promoted Julia Fleischaker to Director of Marketing and Publicity.

Michael Morris was promoted to Design Director at Chronicle.

Meghan Kilduff was promoted to the newly created position of VP at Start Publishing. She will oversee all imprints, reporting to President Jarred Weisfeld.

Kathy O’Donnell was promoted to Editor at Nation Books.

DULY NOTED

Luke Janklow, Anne Sibbald, Cullen Stanley, Bennett Ashey, PJ Mark, and Dmitri Chitov were elected Partners of Janklow & Nesbit Associates, and now comprise the Board of Directors. Founding members Morton Janklow and Lynn Nesbit will continue to oversee their lists.