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Lorena Jones rejoined Ten Speed Press as VP, Publisher of an unnamed imprint for cooking and lifestyle books. Most recently, she was Publishing Director, Food, Drink, and Lifestyle and was Publisher of Ten Speed Press before that. She will also service as Editor-at-Large for Crown’s illustrated publishing program.
Additionally, Liz Esman joined Crown/Broadway/Hogarth/Tim Duggan Books as Senior Publicist. She was most recently Publicist at HarperCollins.
Quarto will launch a new children’s imprint, Seagrass Press in Fall 2016, overseen by Josalyn Moran. Moran was most recently VP, Publishing at Albert Whitman and Children’s Publishing Director at Chronicle Books.
Jesse Baker will join Audible this fall as Senior Director, Ellen Horne as Executive Producer, and Martha Little as Senior Producer. Baker was Executive Producer of NPR’s Ask Me Another, Horne was Executive Producer of WNYC’s Radiolab and Little was Executive Producer of America Abroad Media.
Margaret Harrison joined Ingram Content Group as Director of Product Metadata, Brette Dorris as Senior Sales Representative for public school libraries in the Midwest and Ed Spade joined as Senior Content Acquisitions Manager. Harrison was previously Ebook Global Supply Chain Manager at Oxford University Press. Dorris was previously Sales Representative at Brodart and Book Wholesalers and Spade was Director of Digital Publishing at Nickelodeon.
Bernard A. Barton Jr. joined the Library of Congress as Chief Information Officer. He was formerly CIO and Deputy Administrator at the Defense Technical Information Center. In January, James Billington, the Librarian of Congress, will retire and President Obama will appoint his successor.
Ralph Munsen is now Managing Partner and Global Head of Development of GroupM, which is the media buying division of advertising company WPP. He was previously CIO at Hachette Book Group, where his successor has not yet been announced.
Wendy Jacobson joined Martingale as Director of Sales. She was previously Account Executive at Quarto.
Richard Lowe is retiring from his position as Senior Account Manager at National Book Network in mid-September.
Sue Berger Ramin is now Associate Publisher at David R. Godine, Publisher. She was previously Director of Business Development at Bibliomotion.
Michael Ballanco will become SVP, CIO at Hachette at the end of September. He was previously CIO at the Warner Music Group. Andy Dodds joined Grand Central as Associate Director of Publicity. He was most recently Associate Director of Publicity at William Morrow. Sarah Clayton joined Hachette as International Sales Manager, Middle East and North Africa. She was previously Senior Buyer at Virgin Megastore Middle East.
Matt Wise was named Director of Publishing of Blumhouse Books, the publishing venture by Blumhouse Productions and Doubleday. Wise was Agent at Foundry + Literary Media.
Mike Towle joined Brown Books Publishing Group as Editorial Director. He was previously General Manager and Editor of the Sumner County Publications at Nashville Tenessean.
Stephanie Hawkins joined Abrams as Contracts Manager. She was most recently Contracts Director at Simon & Schuster. Jonathan Yu joined as Business Intelligence Analyst. Additionally, Patricia McNamara joined Abrams Children’s as Digital and Social Media Marketing Associate. She was previously Senior Editor at Girl’s Life magazine. Additionally, Caitlin Miller joined as Associate Publicist. She was most recently Publicity Assistant at Penguin Young Readers.
At university presses, Alisa Plan is now Editor-in-Chief at University of Nebraska Press. She was Senior Acquisitions Editor at Louisiana State University Press. . . Meanwhile, Kristen Elias Rowley, formerly Acquisitions Editor at University of Nebraska Press, is now Editor-in-Chief at The Ohio State University Press. . . Gene Taft will become Publicity Manager at Johns Hopkins University Press, succeeding Kathy Alexander when she retires in October. . . Jeff Dean is joining Harvard University Press as Executive Editor for Physical Sciences and Technology. Previously, he was Senior Publisher of Focal Press, an imprint of Taylor & Francis. . . Brendan Coyne has joined Pennsylvania State University Press as Director of Sales and Marketing. He was previously Associate Sales Director at Johns Hopkins University Press.
At agencies, Nicole Tourtelot is now Agent at DeFiore and Company. She was Agent at Kuhn Projects. . . Sandy Harding joined Spencerhill Associates as Agent. She was most recently Senior Editor at NAL. . . Albert Lee will join Kuhn Projects and Zachary Shuster Harmsworth as Agent in November. He was previously Executive Projects Director at Wenner. . . Caitlin McDonald joined Donald Maass Literary Agency as Agent. She was previously Associate Agent at Sterling Lord Literistic.
Emily Angell is now Editor at Thomas Dunne Books. She was Editor at Portfolio/Current/Sentinel.
Kate Gales Schafer joined William Morrow as Publicity Manager. Previously, she was Senior Publicist at Simon & Schuster.
Annie Mazes joined Workman as Adult Library Marketing Manager. Previously, she was Senior Library Marketing Associate at HarperCollins.
Amy Webster joined Frankfurt Book Fair as Associate Partner, Rights and License. She was Head of New Business at Edinburgh TV Festival, where she worked at the London Book Fair.
Andy Le Peau announced that he will retire as Associate Publisher for Editorial at InterVarsity Press in February 2016.
Lynn Klika joined St. Benedict Press as VP, Sales. She was Director of Sales at Ascension Press.
Sarah Salomon joined House of Anansi and Groundwood Books as Print Production Manager, Cross-Media.
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