People Round-Up, Mid-June 2016

PEOPLE

DK CEO John Duhigg will resign from his position at the end of June. Ian Hudson has been named his successor, and will relinquish his current positions as Penguin Random House International CEO and Penguin Random House UK Deputy CEO.

Meghan Deans is now Marketing Director at Ecco. She was Director of Social Media at Little, Brown.

Betsy Gleick will join Algonquin as Editorial Director at the end of June. She was most recently Creative Editorial Director for Audible’s Channels.

Maria Middleton joined Random House Children’s as Art Director. She was Associate Art Director at Abrams.

Louisa Hager joined Workman Publishing as Digital Content and Social Media Community Manager and Estelle Hallick joined as Publicist. Hager was previously Marketing Associate for academic at HarperCollins and Hallick was Associate Publicist at Oxford University Press.

Kathy Kleidermacher joined Open Road as Copy Director. She was previously Copywriting Director for Berkley/NAL.

Lauren Hill is now Publicist, Adult Trade at Bloomsbury. Previously, she was Assistant Marketing Manager at Oxford University Press.

Quynh Do is re-joining Norton as Trade Editor, Science, Math, Philosophy, and Natural History. She was most recently Associate Editor at Basic Books, and before that, was Associate Editor in Norton’s college division.

At literary agencies, Latoya Smith is now Agent at L. Perkins Agency. She was previously Editorial Director at Samhain Publishing. . . Allison Hunter joined Janklow & Nesbit Associates as Agent. She was previously Agent at Stuart Krichevsky Literary Agency. . . JL Stermer joined New Leaf Literary & Media as Agent. She was Literary Agent at N.S. Bienstock. . . Erica Rand Silverman joined Stimola Literary Studio as Senior Agent. She was previously at Sterling Lord Literistic. . . Jen Marshall joined Kuhn Projects and Zachary Schuster Harmsworth as Agent. She will continue to work at Vintage and Anchor as Publicist-at-Large. . . Katie Zanecchia is now Agent at the Ross Yoon Agency. She was previously Digital Rights Manager at Writers House and Content Manager at CreativeMornings.

At Sounds True, Melissa Valentine is now Acquisitions Editor and Caroline Pincus is Freelance Editor-at-Large. Valentine was Editor at New Harbinger Publications and Pincus was Associate Publisher at Red Wheel Weiser.

PROMOTIONS

Jennifer Enderlin was promoted to EVP, Publisher at St. Martin’s Press. She will continue her role as Editor.

Julie Will is now Editorial Director at Harper Wave.

Workman promoted Thea James to Director, Digital Marketing and Strategy and Colleen VF Venable to Art Director.

Betsy DeJesu was promoted to Publicity Director at Basic Books. Kim Highland was promoted to Sales Director at Perseus Distribution.

Beacon Press promoted Gayatri Patnaik to Editorial Director.

Penguin Publishing Group promoted Allison Dobson to SVP, Director, Strategy and Finance. Erin Simpson was promoted to Senior Agent at the Penguin Random House Speakers Bureau. Clarkson Potter promoted Kim Tyner to Assistant Production Director.

Gabriel Levinson was promoted to Adult Trade Managing Editor at Abrams. Additionally, Pam Notarantonio was promoted to Associate Art Director, Children’s Trade.

DULY NOTED

Market Partners joins the many others in mourning the death of Patti Hughes, a great friend and admired colleague. She will be sorely missed.

Bravo celebrity Andy Cohen launched his new imprint Andy Cohen Books at Holt.

LitHub launched Book Marks, a book review aggregation site that has been equated to the “Rotten Tomatoes” for books.

EVENTS

Jun 16-18
AAUP 2016
Loews Hotel, Philadelphia, PA

Jun 21-23
Licensing Expo 2016
Las Vegas, NV

Jun 26-29
International Christian Retail Show
Cincinnati, OH

Jun 29-Jul 1
Liber 2016
Helsinki, Finland

Jul 1-4
Anime Expo 2016
Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA

Jul 5-9
ThrillerFest XI
Grand Hyatt, New York, NY

Jul 9-11
International Literary Association Conference
Boston, MA

Jul 13-16
Romance Writers of America Annual Conference
Marriott Marquis, San Diego, CA

Jul 15-17
Festival at the Edge
Shropshire, UK

Jul 16
Harlem Book Fair
New York, NY

Jul 21-24
Comic-Con International: San Diego
Sand Diego Convention Center, San Diego, CA

Jul 29-Aug 1
SCBWI Summer Conference
Los Angeles, CA

Aug 12-14
Otakon Anime Convention
The Baltimore Convention Center, Baltimore, MD

Aug 13-29
Edinburgh International Book Festival
Edinburgh, UK

Aug 18-21
Wizard World Comic Con
Donald E Stephens Convention Center, Rosemont, IL

Aug 24-29
2016 Beijing International Book Fair
Beijing, China

Sep 2-5
Dragon Con
Atlanta, GA

Sep 21-25
NINC Master Class 2016
TradeWinds, St. Pete, FL

Sep 23-25
Tokyo International Book Fair
Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan