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Andrea Fleck-Nisbet, founding VP and Publisher of Harper Horizon, will succeed Angela Bole as CEO of the Independent Book Publishers Association. Bole will remain until the end of November before beginning her role as CEO of the Firebrand Group.
At Penguin Random House, David Phethean, VP, Mass Merchandise, National Accounts and Distributor Sales, will retire at the end of the year. Jordan Rodman has been named Senior Director of Publicity for Vintage Anchor. Most recently she was Director of Publicity at Avid Reader Press. At Random House Children’s Books, Liz Dresner, lately Senior Art Director for Sourcebooks, joins as Art Director, YA. Dana Mendelson joins Penguin Young Readers as Senior Designer.
At Avid Reader Press, Davis Kass, formerly VP and Executive Director of Publicity at Hilsinger Mendelson, joins as Senior Director of Publicity.
Catherine Woods joins MIT Press as Executive Editor for Economics, Finance, and Business. She was previously VP, Content Management at Macmillan Learning.
Bold Type Books eliminated the role of Editorial Director Hillary Brenhouse due to “changes in the partnership between the Type Media Center and Hachette.” Accordingly, editorial functions for Bold Type are moving into Public Affairs and books will be acquired for the Bold Type list by Public Affairs editors.
At Poets House, Rob Arnold will take over the position of Executive Director on December 1. Interim Director Cornelius Eady will stay in his role until November 30 and will remain involved with the organization thereafter. Arnold previously served as Interim Executive Director of Hugo House.
Anna Dobben, formerly Associate Director, Awards at the National Book Foundation, joins the San Antonio Book Festival as Literary Director and can be reached at anna@sabookfest.org.
In agency news…Victoria Hendersen joins Brower Literary & Management as Foreign Rights Agent. Previously she was Foreign Rights Assistant at New Leaf Literary & Media. At Donald Maass Literary Agency, Jolene Haley joins as Literary Agent. Carol Woien and Leslie Truex have joined Blue Ridge Literary as Junior Agents. Additionally, Andrea DeWerd, previously Senior Marketing Director at Harvest, is launching The Future of Agency, a book marketing and consulting company.
Kate Tuttle joins the book section of People Magazine as Executive Editor. Previously she was Contributing Editor, Books at the Boston Globe.
Leonard Marcus, Editor-at-Large, has departed Astra Books for Young Readers and can be reached at lm@leonardmarcus.com.
Senior Editor Jaime Levine has left William Morrow and can be contacted at jplevine55@gmail.com.
Due to the HarperCollins layoffs, Aubrey Churchward, Senior Publicity Manager, Children’s, has left her position.
At Algonquin, Marisol Salaman joins as Publicity Manager. Previously she was Senior Publicist for Portfolio and Sentinel. Evan Hansen-Bundy joins as Associate Editor; he was most recently Assistant Editor at Little, Brown and Company.
Perry Crowe joins Chronicle Books as Senior Managing Editor for Entertainment, while Eric Cromie joins as Website Manager.
At Candlewick Press, Tom Brennan joins as Senior Systems Administrator and Salma Shawa joins as Social Media Manager.
At Scholastic, Richard Gonzalez, Jr. joins as Production Editor and Maithili Joshi joins as Junior Designer.
Morgan Hillman joins Holiday House, Peachtree, and Pixel + Ink as Sales Director; she was previously Senior National Accounts Manager at HarperCollins. Bree Martinez, most recently Content Experience Manager at BookClub, also joins as these imprints as Publicist.
Angela Wix, lately Acquisitions Editor at Llewellyn Worldwide, joins Sounds True as Acquisitions Editor.
At The Experiment, Danica Donovan, formerly Assistant Portfolio Manager at Oxford University Press, joins as Associate Editor.
Dawn Raffel joins Northwest Review as Fiction Editor.
Ashley Delaney and Jordan Payne join Sourcebooks as Customer Experience Representatives, and Emma Grant joins as Buyer I for the manufacturing team.
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