PEOPLE At Penguin Random House, Carisa Hays will be leaving her role as publicity director. Following the retirements of Subsidiary Rights VP Leigh Butler and VPHal Fessenden, Tom Dussel will lead the team in the new role of VP, director, subrights, reporting to Allison Dobson at Penguin Publishing Group. Sabila Khan will lead the foreign…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Kierna Mayo joins Random House as VP and Executive Editor at One World/Roc Lit 101. Most recently she was SVP of Content for Interactive One. Stacey Barney has joined Nancy Paulsen Books as Associate Publisher. Most recently she was Executive Editor at Putnam Children’s. Caitlin Tutterow, formerly Assistant Editor at Putnam Children’s, also joins…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Fritz Foy is retiring as President and Publisher of Tom Doherty Associates and is being succeeded by Devi Pillai effective immediately. Pillai was previously Publisher and VP for Tor Books. At Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, Ann Marie Wong joins as Editorial Director. Previously she was Senior Editorial Director at Scholastic Book Clubs….Continue Reading
PEOPLE Dana Canedy is the newest EVP and Publisher at Simon & Schuster, succeeding Jonathan Karp, who has taken over as President and CEO. She had been the administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes since 2017 and was previously Reporter and Senior Editor at The New York Times. PubWest has named Forté Business Consulting as its…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Following the departure of Bruce Nichols from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Deb Brody has been named VP, Publisher of the adult trade division. Brody has been with HMH since 2016, when she joined as Editorial Director from her previous position as Executive Editor at William Morrow. Justin Schwartz, previously Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Mauro DiPreta has joined the William Morrow Group as SVP, Executive Editor. Previously he was VP and Publisher at Hachette Book Group. Lonely Planet has named Luis Cabrera its President and CEO. He joins from BCG Digital Ventures, where he was Partner. Berrett-Koehler’s board of directors has selected David Marshall as the company’s new…Continue Reading
