Crown Publishing Group President and Publisher Jenny Frost announced the appointment of Diane Salvatore, who was most recently Editor-in-Chief of Ladies’ Home Journal, as VP, Publisher of Broadway Books, a new position following the realigning of Broadway and Doubleday within the Random House Group.

Margaret Milnes, VP, Licensed Publishing, Nickelodeon, has resigned after 10 years with the company. Paula Allen, formerly Warner Brothers Consumer Products and Screenland Associates, has joined Nick as SVP, Global Publishing. She will report to Leigh Ann Brodsky, President, Nickelodeon and Viacom Consumer Products.

Josalyn Moran, VP, Director, Children’s Books, Barnes & Noble, has been named Publishing Director at Chronicle, succeeding Bill Boedeker, who left late last year.

Betsy Hulsebosch, former VP of Random House, and Ronni Stolzenberg, former VP of RH and HarperCollins, announce the creation of their new book marketing business, Launchpad, which will provide internet, social networking, publicity, advertising, and promotion solutions. E-mail Hulsebosch at betsy [at] launchpad360.com and Stolzenberg at ronni [at] launchpad360.com.

Scholastic eliminated another 11 positions last week in its Trade and Klutz divisions. Among those leaving in the downsizing were Margaret Coffee, Director of Field Sales, and Grace Maccarone, an editor who had been with the company for 30 years.

Angela Battle has joined LearningExpress as Director of Book Products. Most recently, she was a Senior Sales Specialist at Pearson Education. She will oversee all aspects of the book program, including acquisitions of new titles and book channel expansion by working directly with NBN, LearningExpress’s book distributor. She reports to Ilsa Halpern. Karen Wolny, Editorial Director of LearningExpress, has left the company and may be reached at kawolny [at] hotmail.com.

Simon & Schuster imprint Howard Books announced that Becky Nesbitt will join the company as VP and EIC. She was Associate Publisher for Tyndale House’s nonfiction line. Jennifer Willingham has joined the company as Vice President, Publicity. She comes from Guideposts.

Ingram has merged its Digital, Books, and Lightning Source groups into Ingram Content under CEO and President, Skip Prichard, and the Espresso Book Machine will now be available to all Lightning Source customers. Frank Daniels, Chief Commercial Officer of Ingram Digital, will leave the company in July.

At Yale University Press, longtime Associate Director and Publishing Director Tina Weiner is leaving that position to become Special Assistant to the Secretary of Yale, working in the Office of International Affairs.

At Borders, VP of Corporate Communications Anne Roman is joining a marketing firm in Toledo. She will continue to work for Borders on a consulting basis, and will remain the primary “media contact.” In other Borders news, Scott Laverty has been appointed CIO. He was most recently associated with IBM.

Barb Burg, former SVP and Executive Director of Publicity and Public Relations at the Bantam Dell Publishing Group, has launched a new company, barb burg, ink, offering publicity, public relations, media training, media placement, publishing strategy, and brand management services. She may be reached at barb [at] barbburg.com.

Marty McGrath has been hired by Abrams in the newly created position of Executive Director of Sales, reporting to Mary Wowk, VP of Sales and Marketing. Most recently, he was VP, Deputy Director of Adult Sales at Random House.

Nancy Miller has joined Bloomsbury/Walker as a Consulting Editor, acquiring both nonfiction and fiction. Most recently, she had been Executive Editor at Collins.

Anna Stein has left Irene Skolnick’s agency to open the New York office of London-based Aitken Alexander.

Jacqueline Flynn has joined Joelle Delbourgo Associates as an agent. She was formerly Executive Editor at Amacom Books. Carrie Cantor is heading up the agency’s new editorial services division, and may be reached at cantor.carrie [at] gmail.com.

At Little, Brown Children’s, Diane Cain has been hired for the newly created position of Brand Marketing Director, James Patterson, reporting to Deputy Publisher Andrew Smith. She was most recently Executive Director of Marketing at Harper Children’s.

Zagat Survey laid off 16 employees in a variety of departments on May 20. The company previously cut 20 employees in December 2008.

PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES

HarperCollins UK MD Amanda Ridout will leave the company at the end of June to “pursue other ventures.” Following Ridout’s notice, CEO and Publisher Victoria Barnsley said the roles of MD of HarperCollins, MD of HarperFiction, and MD of Harper NonFiction/Collins will be phased out. Belinda Budge will be promoted to the new role of Publisher of HarperCollins UK, reporting to Barnsley. Budge will oversee all publishing for HarperFiction and NonFiction/Collins. Simon Johnson, currently Director of Business Development, will become Group Commercial and Business Development Director, reporting to Barnsley and COO Keith Mullock. BookBrunch notes that Patrick Janson-Smith has “an enhanced role.”

Ken Oxenreider, Simon & Schuster VP Audio Sales, will join the Audio Division June 1, reporting to Audio EVP and Publisher Chris Lynch. He will assume responsibility for the company’s Audible, iTunes, Overdrive, and E-Music accounts and will continue to work with sales for major account presentations. He remains the sales point of contact for distribution clients.

Phoenix Publishing is launching a children’s trade line under its Dove imprint, and Gray Peterson, VP of Sales/Marketing, will now add Associate Publisher, Children’s Books to his responsibilities. He was formerly VP Sales, Mass Market at Scholastic.

Claudia Boutote announced that Laina Adler has been promoted to Director of Marketing at HarperOne.

At Crown Business, Publicity Director Tara Bilbride will serve as Publicity Director of Broadway Business. Liz Hazelton is leaving the company to join Fortier Public Relations.

At Simon & Schuster, Alexis Welby has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity, and Julia Prosser has been promoted to Senior Publicity Manager.

Ten Speed Press acting Publisher Aaron Wehner has been formally named to the job, reporting to Crown Publishing Group President Jenny Frost. Wehner joined Ten Speed in 1997.

DULY NOTED

Ingram Marketing Group announced the results of an industry survey on e- vs. print catalogs. Over 49% of respondents, a “tremendous increase” over last year, are willing to use e-catalogs in place of print, as long as they include features like a shopping list function and point-of-sale download capabilities. About 60% of respondents have already used an e-catalog. Over 80% of the 2,500 survey participants were either librarians or independent booksellers.

The Hay House New York office has moved. Its new address is 250 Park Avenue South, Suite 201, New York, NY 10003. E-mail addresses will stay the same, but phone numbers have changed: Phone: (646) 484-4950, fax: (646)484-4956.

The Kids Licensing Forum, which ran for one day following the Bologna Children’s Book Fair this year, is expanding to a full three-day event in 2010, concurrent with the Book Fair from March 23–25.

UPCOMING EVENTS

There will be a memorial service for Eden Ross Lipson on June 13 at 1:30 at The Century Club, 7 W. 43rd Street, New York, NY. To leave a condolence note in the guestbook, go here.

IN MEMORIAM

Craig Virden, former head of Random House Children’s Books and most recently a literary agent with his wife, Nancy Gallt, died on May 6. His memorial service took place on May 27 at St. Peter’s Church.

Broadway’s Editor-in-Chief Stacy Creamer will join Simon & Schuster as VP and Publisher of Touchstone Fireside, reporting to Free Press Publisher Martha Levin. The two lines “will have independently functioning editorial and publishing staffs,” according to the announcement….Current T/F Publisher Mark Gompertz takes on the new role of EVP, Digital Publishing. He and Ellie Hirschhorn, EVP, Chief Digital Officer, who was hired last year, both report to CEO Carolyn Reidy.

There have reportedly been a number of layoffs at Phaidon in the US and UK, including Executive Managing Editor Nancy Grubb.

Gretchen Koss and Meghan Walker have announced the formation of their company, Tandem Literary, a full-service firm that combines all aspects of book marketing with PR under one umbrella. The two worked together at Random House until late 2008, Koss as the Director of Publicity for Spiegel & Grau (the principals of which endorse their former employees on the Tandem website), and Walker as Spiegel & Grau’s Director of Marketing.

Michael Healy, Executive Director of the Book Industry Study Group (BISG), will also reportedly head the Book Rights Registry, if the proposed settlement of the Google lawsuit is eventually accepted.  Before coming to the U.S. in 2006, Healy was Director of Nielsen Book Services in the UK.

Lorna Owen has joined Other Press as Senior Editor. She was at Nan A. Talese/Doubleday for eight years.

John Mendelson will join Candlewick Press in mid-May as SVP, Sales and Digital Initiatives. He is currently Director of Trade Sales at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, where he has worked for more than a decade in a variety of sales positions.

As reported in the New York Observer, following the merger of the William Morris and Endeavor agencies, Richard Abate’s literary department appears to be the first casualty. In other agency news, Writers House has set up a small London operation. Writers House UK will be under the direction of Angharad Kowal, who joined the agency in 2008 following eight years with S&S, most recently as Rights Director for the Children’s Division, as well as for Simon Spotlight Entertainment….Kirsten Neuhaus has started her own eponymous literary agency. She was most recently an agent and foreign rights manager at Vigliano Associates. Michael Harriot was also at Vigliano, where he represented his own clients and co-agented deals with David Vigliano, and has now joined Sanford J. Greenburger Associates as an agent.

Liza Pulitzer Voges has opened her own literary agency, Eden Street LLC. She will represent authors and illustrators of children’s books, and can be reached at lvoges [at] edenstlit.com. Voges was with Kirchoff Wohlberg for 25 years. The website is not yet operational.

Kathy Warren has been named National Accounts Manager at Dover Publications, which is owned by Courier. Warren previously worked for Sellers Publications in Portland, ME. According to Publishers Lunch, Courier took a non-cash $15.6 million charge related to performance at Dover, representing 100% of Dover’s goodwill.

Lloyd Jassin resigned as chairman of the New York Center for Independent Publishing executive committee, citing differences between his vision for NYCIP and that of the General Society of Mechanics & Tradesmen. NYCIP Executive Director Karin Taylor was laid off in February. The NYCIP is being overseen by interim director Leah Schnelbach.

Matthew Lore has launched The Experiment, LLC, a new trade publishing company focused on practical nonfiction. The company publishes its inaugural list this fall, with six books. Lore is joined by Peter Burri as general partner. The Experiment’s adviser and principal investor is Richard Gallen, who has been a co-founder or investor in more than a dozen companies, including Tor.

Sarah Reidy has joined Pocket Books as Associate Director of Publicity. She was at Soho Press, where she was Director for the past two years. Justin Hargett has rejoined Soho as the new Director of Publicity, after working at Ohio University Press, Other Press, and Oxford University Press.

Feminist Press Editorial Director Amy Scholder has hired Jeanann Pannasch as new Managing Editor. She was Managing Editor for Spin and Ms. magazines. Drew Stevens, who has produced titles for Knopf, Chanticleer, Scholastic, Sterling, Chronicle, and Random House, has been hired as Production & Design Manager. Newly hired Administrative Manager Deonne Kahler was a business consultant and is a blogger and freelance writer. Publicity Manager Rachael Rakes was Marketing Director at AK Press.

S&S Children’s announced that Sy Sumg has joined the children’s subsidiary rights group as Assistant Manager. He was at Random House.

PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES

David Levithan has been promoted to VP, Editorial Director for Scholastic Trade Publishing. He had been Executive Editorial Director for Scholastic Press fiction, multimedia publishing, and PUSH.

Random House Publishing Group’s Sanyu Dillon announced that in addition to her current role as VP, Director of Marketing for the Bantam/Dell imprints, Carolyn Schwartz will now also oversee the marketing efforts for Ballantine, with the title of VP, Director of Marketing, Ballantine/Bantam/Dell.

At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Josh Harwood has been promoted to National Sales Director in the NYC office, replacing John Mendelson, who has gone to Candlewick (see above). He was a sales rep covering New York and New England. Beth Ineson has been promoted to Director of Field Sales and Distribution Clients. She was previously a distribution client manager.

Oren Teicher, COO of the American Booksellers Association (ABA), has been named CEO, replacing Avin Domnitz, who is retiring. Separately, ABA announced that Books Inc.’s Michael Tucker is up for election as President of ABA in June.

DULY NOTED

Agent Ira Silverberg has negotiated an imprint, to be called Igniter, within Carrie Kania’s new HarperCollins imprint, It. Igniter will be managed by Silverberg’s client Neil Strauss and co-editor/publisher Anthony Bozza and will focus “on the margins of pop culture.” The first title will appear this fall.

comScore, Inc. released the results of a study of vertical ad networks, which target ads to specific audiences online according to demographic or category content. The study showed that the collective reach of such networks has increased from 21.5% of the total U.S. internet audience in March 2008 to 57.1% in March 2009. The most popular categories were gaming, entertainment, community, news/information, and health.

Publishers Weekly’s list of publishing’s unemployed continues to grow and includes many familiar names. Though only loosely alphabetized, it is a good resource.

The Stanford Publishing Courses for Professionals announces the first “Amazon ’09 Innovation Scholarship,” awarded to “a book or magazine publisher who has demonstrated particular innovation either in using new technologies to deliver content or in developing new business models to sustain and promote publishing in a digital age.” The Scholarship covers full tuition, lodging, and travel costs for one publishing professional to attend the course. The deadline is May 15.

UPCOMING EVENTS

PEN’s World Voices Festival finishes May 3 with “Henry Hudson 400 Years: Amsterdam and New York City,” featuring Ian Buruma, Geert Mak, and Russell Shorto talking about the influences of Holland on New York, and vice versa.

New York City’s New School is hosting a series of forums on writing for children, hosted by editor Deborah Brodie. The next forum takes place May 5 from 6:30–7:30 p.m. and features Leonard S. Marcus, book critic and children’s book historian. Tickets cost $5 and can be ordered from the New School by calling (212) 229-5488.

The French-American Foundation’s Translation Prizes will take place on Tuesday, May 26 at 6 PM at the Century Association (7 W. 43rd St.).

There are so many changes to report this month that we are highlighting only some of the moves and, where available, contact information. Rebecca (Becky) Saletan has been appointed Editorial Director of Riverhead, reporting to Publisher Geoff Kloske. She was most recently SVP and Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Her appointment is effective March 2; meanwhile, she is reachable at rebecca dot saletan at earthlink dot net.

Jon Anderson, President and Publisher of Running Press, has joined Simon & Schuster as EVP and Publisher of S&S Children’s Publishing, reporting to S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy.

There have been ongoing reorganizations at Random House, Knopf, and Crown. Janice Goldklang, Publisher of Pantheon, was let go after 30 years and may be reached at janicegoldklang at gmail dot com. Jack Perry was laid off from Random, where he was Director of Sales Marketing, and may be reached at jackperry38 at hotmail dot com. According to the New York Observer, four editors were also laid off: Random House’s Modern Library editor Judy Sternlight, Villard’s Bruce Tracy, Ballantine’s West Coast–based Anika Streitfeld, and Liz Scheier. Longtime Bantam Dell Business Manager John de Beaumont and Paul Kozlowski, former VP Director Sales Marketing Random Adult, have left and Paul may be reached at pekoz at mac dot com. Judy Pray has left Clarkson Potter after one year and can be reached at jpray24 at gmail dot com. She was previously with Black Dog & Leventhal. Meanwhile, Sharon Swados, who was VP Director of Sub Rights at Bantam Dell and was laid off in December, may be reached at szswados at yahoo dot com.

Joe Monti, former Director of Paperbacks at Hachette, has left the company. He may be reached at [e-mail info at publishingtrends dot com for number].

Steve Black has left Oxmoor House’s New York office, where he was Director of Sales. He joined Oxmoor in June 2008.

Editor-in-Chief Sara Nelson has been laid off from Publishers Weekly and may be reached at snwriter at aol dot com or [e-mail info at publishingtrends dot com for number]. Executive Editor Daisy Maryles has also left and may be reached at daisymaryles at yahoo dot com. Bookselling editor Kevin Howell and Director of Business Development Rachel Dicker are also departing. School Library Journal editor-in-chief Brian Kenney was named to the new position of Editorial Director for the group, comprising SLJ, Library Journal, and PW.

Nicole Dewey has been named Director of Publicity at Holt. She was Associate Director of Publicity at
Doubleday and replaces Claire McKinney, who left in December.

Karyn Gerhard has joined Penguin as Senior Acquisitions Editor for the Alpha imprint, formerly a division of Pearson Education. She was at Bulfinch. Meanwhile, Vanessa Mobley, Senior Editor at the Penguin Press, has left the company. She may be reached at vanessamobley at gmail dot com.

Barnes & Noble terminated about 100 people, including Steve Magnusson and Editorial Director of Union Square Press Philip Turner, who may be reached at philipsturner at gmail dot com or [e-mail info at publishingtrends dot com for number]. Meanwhile, BarnesandNoble.com, which has been operating without a CEO since Marie Toulantis left in August, has hired a President, Bill Lynch. From 2004 to 2008, he was CEO and co-founder of gifts.com.

At Chronicle, Debra Lande, Business Development Director, has been laid off. She may be reached at landedebra at gmail dot com.

At Workman, Glenn D’Agnes has been named Chief Administrative Officer. He was COO of HarperCollins. Melissa Possick has been named Marketing Director. Amy Corley has moved back to Artisan as Publicity Director.

Angus Killick, who was School and Library Marketing Director at Disney Publishing Worldwide, has joined Macmillan’s Kingfisher as Associate Publisher, a new position, reporting to UK Publishing Director Martina Challis. Killick takes control of all US publishing, marketing, and sales and is based in New York.

Vivian Chum has joined Prospect Agency as an agent.

Lonely Planet has appointed Matthew Goldberg as CEO as of March, reporting to BBC Worldwide Managing Director of Global Brands Marcus Arthur and based in Melbourne, Australia. He was SVP, Digital Strategy & Ops at Dow Jones, where he led business operations at the Wall Street Journal Digital Network.

Steven Sayre has resigned from Ingram. He has joined medical publisher IARS in San Francisco to run its print/online content programs.

Lindley Boegehold has joined Abrams as Director of Custom, Proprietary, and Calendar Publishing. She has been consulting at Abrams, following her departure from Random Media.

Shardul Kothari has left HMH Publishing, where he was VP, Sales in the International Division. He may be reached at shardul at netvigator dot com.

PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES

Wendy Sheanin has been promoted to Director of Marketing, Adult at S&S.

John R. Ingram, Chairman of the Ingram Content companies, announced that James Gray has been named Chief Strategy Officer for the Content Group. Gray was most recently the President and CEO of Ingram Digital. Mike Lovett, the former CEO of Ingram Book Group and most recently SVP of Ingram Digital, is the new CEO of Ingram Digital.

Sterling has promoted Sharmilla Sinanan to the newly created position of Senior Manager, Marketing Services (formerly the ad/promo department). Simone Gibbs was promoted to the position of Marketing Coordinator.

At Trident Media Group, Alanna Ramirez has been promoted to agent. She was audio rights agent and special assistant to Robert Gottlieb. Elizabeth Kellogg has been promoted to audio rights agent.

Cindy Eagan has been named Executive Editorial Director for the Poppy imprint at Little, Brown Children’s.

Christina Amini and Steve Mockus have both been named Senior Editor at Chronicle.

DULY NOTED

comScore reported that the total global Internet audience (age 15 and older, from home and work computers) surpassed one billion visitors in December 2008. The Asia-Pacific region accounted for the highest share of global Internet users, at 41%, followed by Europe (28% share), North America (18%), Latin America (7%), and the Middle East and Africa (5%). China represented the largest online audience from one country, with 180 million Internet users, representing nearly 18% of the total worldwide Internet audience.

Booksonline, parent company to over 20 of North America’s leading book clubs including Book-of-the-Month Club, Black Expressions, The Good Cook, and Mystery Guild, has dropped the controversial “Negative Option” method from its business practice. On January 7, all book clubs belonging to the Booksonline family switched to the new operational policy.

IN MEMORIAM

Arcade Publishing Founder and Publisher Dick Seaver’s memorial service will take place Thursday, February 12, at 5 PM at All Souls Unitarian Church (1157 Lexington Ave., between 79th and 80th Sts).

A memorial service for critic, editor, and novelist John Leonard will be held on Monday, March 2 at 6 PM at Landmark on the Park (160 Central Park West). Along with family members, Gloria Steinem, Toni Morrison, and Victor Navasky are among the participants.

In the Random House reorganization, which moved Bantam to RHPG, Irwyn Applebaum has left, as has Bantam Dell Group SVP, Director of Creative Marketing, Betsy Hulsebosch. She may be reached at (914) 772-1022. Barb Burg, SVP Executive Director Publicity and PR, will also be leaving, after 24 years, on January 30. She may be reached at barbburg [at] gmail.com. Meanwhile, reportedly a total of over 40 (out of about 120) people have left Doubleday and Broadway, including Nicole Dewey in publicity and Becky Cole in editorial.

Claire Tisne, who was RH Sub Rights Director under Gina Centrello, is leaving, as is Sharon Swados from the Bantam Dell Sub Rights group; their duties will be taken over by Rebecca Gardner, who had been with Doubleday. Gardner, who reports to Sonny Mehta, heads the sub rights department that includes Lisa George from Bantam, Rachel Kind from Ballantine, and Joelle Dieu from Little Random.

A note of cheer comes from the announcement that Susan Kamil has accepted the position of SVP and EIC of the RH imprint of RHPG while continuing as Editorial Director of the Dial Press. She will be in charge of the Random House Editorial department and SVP Editorial Director Jennifer Hershey now reports to her. Kate Medina, EVP, Executive Editorial Director, and Associate Publisher of Random House, and Bob Loomis, EVP and Executive Editor, continue to report to Centrello.

Herb Schaffner has left McGraw-Hill Professional, where he was Publisher of Business and Finance, and may be reached at schaffnerh [at] gmail.com.

Many changes in children’s publishing: Rick Richter and Rubin Pfeffer have left S&S Children’s; earlier Ginny Seo had resigned from S&S Children’s. Meanwhile, Mary McGrath has joined as Director of DSRM, Children’s Sales, reporting to Mary Marotta. She had been at Random House for 17 years and was most recently Director of Sales, adult mass merchandise.

Bill Boedeker has left Chronicle, where he was Publishing Director, Children’s Books.

Kathy Dawson joined Penguin’s Dial BYR in the new position of Associate Publisher, reporting to Lauri Hornik. Dawson was formerly Editorial Director at Harcourt Children’s.

At Holt, President and Publisher Dan Farley will oversee the new Macmillan Children’s Group as well. Jean Feiwel and Simon Boughton have been both appointed SVP Publishing Directors of the group, with Feiwel running Feiwel and Friends, Square Fish, Priddy Books, and Holt BYR, and Boughton running FSG BYR, Roaring Brook Press, and First Second. Michael Eisenberg, co-publisher of FSG BYR, has left the company, as have Melanie Kroupas and her imprint.

FSG Sub Rights Director Michael Hathaway has left, as the rights department is being merged with Holt’s under Denise Cronin, and their production team will be integrated into a much larger central unit. Among those cut out of the editorial department are Associate Publisher Linda Rosenberg, who oversaw both the classics line and the paperback operation, and Senior Editor Denise Oswald, who started at the company as an assistant.

Selina Cicogna Meere has left Crown to become Associate Director of Publicity at Workman.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt SVP and Publisher of Adult Trade Becky Saletan has resigned. There was no further comment beyond confirmation from the company.

Erin Canning has joined Quirk Packaging as Editor. She was previously senior sales analyst at Random House.

Craig Virden, a former President and Publisher of RH BYR, will officially join his wife at the Nancy Gallt Literary Agency as of January 1. Virden will spend most of his time in the “back office” business of contracts and royalties.

Melanie Donovan has been named Senior Acquisitions Editor at Recorded Books. She had been Executive Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books.

Former Rodale Books President Tami Booth Corwin has joined SparkPeople.com (part of Steve Case’s Revolution Health Network) as EVP of Publishing and Content, just as the company has struck its first book deal with Hay House.

Agent Elise Proulx notes that her new job will be Marketing and Outreach Coordinator for the eScholarship Publishing Group at the California Digital Library, University of California.

Lori Burke has moved over from DK to Penguin YRG in the dual role of Director of Licensing for Grosset & Dunlap/PSS and US Brand Manager for Warne, managing the merchandise relationship with licensing agents Chorion and Wildflower. She had been Director of Marketing for DK Children’s Books and Licensing.

PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES

Dan Halpern announced that Rachel Bressler, Associate Publisher of Ecco, has been named Vice President.

At Tor, Phyllis Azar has moved up from ad/promo Director to Executive Director of Marketing; Patty Garcia from Associate Director of Publicity to Director of Publicity; Brian Vaughan from Marketing Manager to Director of Publishing Operations; Joseph Bendel from Assistant Sales/Marketing Manager to Manager of Publishing Operations; and Jennifer Kaufler from Marketing Coordinator to Marketing Manager.

At RH Audio, Rebecca Waugh has been promoted to senior acquisitions editor for Listening Library.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Two NBCC events in 2009: On January 24 at 7 p.m. at the Housing Works Bookstore Café, announcers Sam Anderson (winner of the 2007 Balakian Award), Bill Henderson of Pushcart Press, Mary Jo Bang (winner of the 2007 Poetry award), Harriet Washington (winner of the 2007 nonfiction award), Alex Ross (winner of the 2007 criticism award), and others will announce the NBCC Awards finalists. The event will be hosted by NBCC President Jane Ciabattari. The night before, also at Housing Works, there will be a Poetry in Translation panel, “Has the U.S. Lost Touch with World Literature?” For more information, go to www.bookcritics.org.

The 4th Annual San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, Writers’ Conference & Literary Festival takes place from February 20 to 22, 2009. For more information, go to www.sanmiguelauthors.com and www.sanmiguelworkshops.com.

The American Book Producers Association BookBuilding 2.0 seminar has been rescheduled for March 10, 2009 from 9 a.m. 6 p.m. at The Players. The morning session will focus on the essentials of developing and producing books, and the afternoon will feature two panels: “The Internet and Electronic Publishing,” moderated by Carolyn Pittis of HarperCollins, and “What’s Next?: Trends in Publishing,” moderated by Barbara Marcus of Penguin Young Readers Group. For more information, e-mail office [at] abpaonline.org.

Doubleday has eliminated 16 positions across all of the group’s imprints, in the editorial, marketing, publicity, art, and ad promo departments. Those leaving include editor Jennifer Josephy; Janet Silver, Nan Talese, Editor at Large; and from Spiegel & Grau, senior editor Tina Pohlman, Director of Publicity Gretchen Koss, Director of Marketing Megan Walker, and Walker’s assistant.

DK’s Rough Guides editorial department has been transferred back to the UK. (As many as 14 people are rumored to have left the company.) DK Eyewitness Travel and Rough Guides Marketing Director Geoff Colquitt’s job has been eliminated; all DK Adult Marketing now falls under Judy Powers. Geoff Colquitt may be reached at gcolquitt [at] mac.com or (914) 699-6998.

Hachette is merging its Orbit (SF) and Yen (graphic novel) imprints into a new division called Orbit. Tim Holman will run it as VP and Publisher. Co-publisher Kurt Hassler will now report to Holman and Rich Johnson will be leaving the company. He may be reached at rjhnzn [at] yahoo. com. Alex Lencicki, who was also at Orbit, will remain Marketing and Publicity Director for the new division.

Toni Sciarra, most recently an Executive Editor at HarperCollins and previously at Morrow and Simon & Schuster, is offering editorial and consulting services on nonfiction projects. She can be reached at tonionemail [at] yahoo.com or (212) 628-4072.

Karen Hansgen has been named Associate Publisher of the newly formed Skira-Rizzoli International Publications, which will focus on museum-related publishing. She was Publications Director at The New Museum.

As noted elsewhere, Little, Brown editor Reagan Arthur received her own imprint, Reagan Arthur Books, where she will be VP, Editorial Director and continue to report to Geoff Shandler.

Dan Weiss has left Barnes & Noble, where he was most recently Publisher and Managing Director of Quamut.com. Previously, he had run the company’s Sparknotes division. He may be reached at dweissco [at] gmail.com or (917) 613-7713.

Dick Robinson announced that Seth Radwell is leaving Scholastic, following the sale of Scholastic at Home this past summer. He was President of eScholastic and had managed Scholastic at Home since 2007.

Nancy Hancock has joined HarperOne as Executive Editor and Becky Cabaza has been named Editor at Large. Both report directly to Editorial Director Mickey Maudlin. Hancock was most recently Executive Editor at Rodale. Becky Cabaza, former Editorial Director of Three Rivers Press and most recently a freelance editor and ghostwriter, will continue to work from her home office. She can be reached at (973) 280-2429 or becky.cabaza [at] harpercollins.com. Shawn Nicholls has joined Collins as Director of Online Marketing. Nicholls comes from Crown, where he managed online marketing. And Matt Weiland is joining Ecco as Senior Editor. Most recently, he was Deputy Editor of The Paris Review.

Jed Donahue is leaving Crown Forum to become Editor-in-Chief of ISI Books and VP of Publications for the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Delaware. Meanwhile, Campbell Wharton returns to Crown to take over as Publicity Director. . . . Hyperion’s Executive Director of Publicity Beth Gebhard has relocated to LA to work in the communications department of the new Oprah Winfrey Network. Marie Coolman takes her place. . . . Andrea Glickson has been named Director of Publicity and Marketing at Octopus USA, reporting to Jonathan Stolper. She was at Watson-Guptill. . . . Kim Small is the new Publicity Director for Watson-Guptill and Potter Craft. She was Executive Publicist at Workman. And Emily Takoudes joins Clarkson Potter as a senior editor, reporting to Editorial Director Doris Cooper. She was at Ecco.

Ginee Seo, VP and Editorial Director of her eponymous imprint at Atheneum at S&S, is leaving the company. Her future titles will be published under the Atheneum imprint.

Lisa Herling has been named SVP of Corporate Communications at Cengage Learning. She previously worked at HarperCollins as SVP, Director of Corporate Communications.

Belinda Rasmussen has been named Managing Director of the Carlton Publishing Group. She was Business Development Director for Egmont UK.

Bill Huelster has been hired as the Senior Director, Online Sales and Special Markets at Kaplan Publishing. He was most recently at Random House.

O’Reilly Media announced that Joe Wikert has joined the company as General Manager, O’Reilly Technology Exchange. He was VP and Executive Publisher of Professional/Trade, Wiley.

Charles Nurnberg, former CEO of Sterling, has founded Imagine Publishing. Nurnberg has teamed with Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul & Mary to form an eponymous imprint. Imagine will be distributed by BookMasters (BDS). In a separate announcement, BDS welcomed former PGW President Rich Freese as President of BDA and Atlas Books, which will continue to operate independently. Jeremy Nurnberg, formerly Sterling VP of Trade and Institutional Sales (and Charlie Nurnberg’s son), has been hired as the new VP Sales.

Matthew Lore has resigned from his position as VP Executive Editor, Da Capo Press. He can be reached at matthew.lore.email [at] gmail.com.

David Moldawer has joined Portfolio/Penguin as an editor, reporting to Adrian Zackheim. He was at St. Martin’s. Tim Sullivan departed earlier in the month for Basic Books. . . . Jordan Brown has been hired as Editor, Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HC Children’s Books. Brown started his publishing career at S&S Children’s Publishing.

Michael Broussard has created iSB New Media, a multimedia talent platform/literary agency based in LA. He was formerly an agent at Dupree/Miller and editor at Simon Spotlight Entertainment.

PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES
Cofounder of Weldon Owen, John Owen, has been named Group Publisher of Bonnier Publishing, which comprises nine companies in the US, UK, Australia, New Zealand, and France. With this promotion, Terry Newell goes from President of WO U.S. to CEO. Sheena Coupe has also been promoted to CEO and runs the WO Australia operation. They both report directly to Des Higgins at Bonnier UK.

John Fagan, who wears a substantial number of sales and marketing hats at Penguin, is adding Plume and Hudson Street Press to his portfolio. He will have help from Liz Keenan, who has been named Publicity Director for both imprints.

At Holt’s Metropolitan Books, Sara Bershtel has been promoted to VP Publisher. Elsewhere at Holt, Karen Frangipane has been hired as Director of Marketing for Holt Children’s. She was at S&S.

Susan Canavan has been promoted to Executive Editor in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade and reference division.

Annsley Rosner has been named publicity director at Crown and Shaye Areheart. She had been Publicity Director at Harmony and Three Rivers Press. . . . At Harper, Leslie Cohen has been promoted to Executive Director of Publicity and Jane Beirn to Senior Director.

Jennifer Hunt has been promoted to Editorial Director of Little, Brown Children’s.

UPCOMING EVENTS
CLMP’s annual Spelling Bee will take place on Monday, November 3 at Diane von Furstenberg’s studio. She will host the event. Contact jlependorf@clmp.org.

Esther Margolis, Founder and Publisher of Newmarket Press, will be honored with the New York Center for Independent Publishing’s Poor Richard Award at the Center’s Annual Benefit and Cocktail Reception. November 10, from 6 to 8 PM, at 20 W. 44th St.

IN MEMORIAM
Dan Harvey, a longtime book publishing executive, passed away on October 23, 2008 after a long struggle with melanoma. Harvey was most recently Senior VP, Director of Marketing for Trident Media Group, a literary agency. A memorial service will be held on Thursday, Nov. 20 at 6 PM at the Bruno Walter Auditorium, NYPL for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center, 111 Amsterdam Ave. at 65th St.

WE HEAR WEDDING BELLS!
Constance Sayre, a founding partner of MPI, married Gilman Park on October 12. The family-only ceremony took place in the garden of her brother’s home in Chiswick, London. They have been significant others for 16 years. Mr. Park is President of Hudson Park Press. Ms. Sayre will continue to use her maiden name.

• Contact: Director Joyce Meskis. (303) 871-2570; e-mail pi-info [at] du.edu
• 2008 dates/length: July 12–August 7 (four weeks)
• Cost: $4,150
• Number of students: 95–100
• Notable faculty: Dominique Raccah, Sourcebooks; Roger Scholl, Doubleday; Susan Moldow, Simon & Schuster; Carl Lennertz, HarperCollins; Larry Kirshbaum, LJK Literary Management; Bob Miller, HarperCollins; Kris Kliemann, Wiley.
  
• Notable alumni: Charlie Spicer, St. Martin’s; Charlie Conrad, Broadway; Meg Ruley, Literary Agent; John Drayton, University of Oklahoma Press; Eva Bonnier, Albert Bonniers (Stockholm).
• Teaching style: Focus on book publishing; hands-on editing and marketing workshops; panels and lectures; career counseling and interviewing
• Focus on new media: Lecture/teaching sessions on e-books, online editing, internet marketing
• Grads go on to jobs at: HarperCollins, Penguin, Random House, Scholastic, Wiley, Hachette, Rowman & Littlefield

New York University Summer Publishing Institute (program founded 1978)

• Contact: Director Andrea Chambers. (212) 998-7171; e-mail pub.center [at] nyu.edu
• 2008 dates/length: June 1–July 11 (six weeks)
• Cost: $4,760 (tuition)
• Number of students: 90–100
• Notable faculty: Michael Pietsch, Hachette; Reagan Arthur, Little, Brown; Carolyn Reidy, Simon & Schuster; Ellen Archer, Hyperion; Jennifer Barth, HarperCollins
• Notable alumni: Seale Ballenger, HarperCollins; Judy Hottensen, Weinstein Books; Josh Marwell, HarperCollins; Katherine Allan, Wiley; Doris S. Michaels, Doris S. Michaels Literary Agency; Sylvia Barsotti, About.com
• Field trips: Rolling Stone, Vibe, Time Out New York magazines
• Teaching style: Skill development workshops; strategy sessions; field trips and real-world assignments including a simulated magazine launch and book imprint launch.
• Focus on new media: Digital is integrated into every session and there are separate panels on video, social networking and other digital strategies
• Grads go on to jobs at: The Walt Disney Company, Abrams, The Wylie Agency, Scholastic, McGraw-Hill, The New York Times, Princeton University Press, Time Inc.

Columbia Publishing Course (founded in 1947 as the Radcliffe Publishing Course)

• Contact: Director Lindy Hess. (212) 854-1898; e-mail publishing [at] jrn.columbia.edu
• 2008 dates/length: June 23–August 1 (six weeks)
• Cost: $4,200 (tuition), $2,460 (room and board)
• Number of students: 102
• Notable faculty: Robert Gottlieb, Trident Media Group; Chip Kidd, author; Ann Patchett, author; Sesalee Hensley, Barnes & Noble; David Remnick, author and editor; Amy Astley, Teen Vogue; Will Dana, Rolling Stone
• Notable alumni: Arthur Levine, Arthur A. Levine Books; Gary Fisketjon, Vintage; Morgan Entrekin, Grove/Atlantic; Lynn Nesbit, Janklow & Nesbit; Jordan Pavlin, Knopf; Scott Moyers, Wylie
• Field trips: Condé Nast, HarperCollins
• Teaching style: Intensive workshops and lectures
• Focus on new media: Digital publishing, online media (InStyle, Yahoo!, Slate), and blogs (Jezebel, Eater)
• Grads go on to jobs at:  Knopf, Random House, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, Penguin, Men’s Vogue, GQ, Marie Claire

Rodale President Karen Rinaldi announced that Colin Dickerman and Pam Krauss have been named VP, Publishing Directors. Dickerman will join effective September 2 and will be responsible for Rodale’s narrative nonfiction list. He was most recently Publisher of Bloomsbury USA. Krauss will join effective August 25 and will oversee the illustrated list, including cookbooks. She was most recently at Clarkson Potter. . . . Andrea Au Levitt is also joining as Projects Director, Prevention Books. She was most recently the Program Administrator for NYU’s Summer Publishing Institute. Previously, she was at Hatherleigh. . . . Courtney Conroy is rejoining the company as Editor. She was previously Associate Developmental Editor at Potter Craft. . . . Julie Will has been promoted to Senior Editor. . . . Meanwhile, Marya Dalrymple has resigned to become the Editorial Director for South Beach Diet LLC. She is reachable at marya.dalrymple [at] southbeachdietlp.com.

George Gibson has been named Publishing Director of Bloomsbury USA in the wake of Dickerman’s departure. Gibson will retain the title of Publisher of Walker & Company.

Six weeks after Jane Friedman’s departure and Brian Murray’s appointment as CEO of HarperCollins, it’s been announced that COO Glenn D’Agnes will leave the company in late August “to pursue other opportunities.” The COO position will be eliminated, but Larry Nevins has been promoted to VP Operations and CIO Rick Schwartz and SVP, Distribution Operations Joe Franceschelli will report to him. Reporting directly to Murray will be SVP and CFO Janet Gervasio; SVP and General Counsel Chris Goff; SVP, HR Jim Young; President of Sales Josh Marwell; and VP, Corporate Communications Erin Crum.

Reader’s Digest will cease publication of its line of condensed nonfiction books, Select Editions. As a result, several positions, including those of Laura Kelly and Barbara Clark, have been eliminated, although the condensed fiction line will continue. Laura Kelly can be reached at laurkell [at] yahoo.com and Barbara Clark at BarbaraKClark [at] yahoo.com.

Skip Dye has announced that Lane Jantzen has joined Random House as Imprint Sales Director, Random House Publisher Services. Lane, who fills the position that was vacated by Mary Dolan a few months ago, comes from Perseus Books Group (PBG), where he was the Director of National Accounts Marketing with primary responsibility for Barnes & Noble.

Baker & Taylor has named Thomas Morgan as Chairman and CEO. Most recently, he was CEO of Hughes Supply, a Florida-based distributor of construction. And James C. Melton, EVP and CFO, has decided to leave the company.

Michele Martin has joined Langenscheidt Publishing Group in the new position of Chief Sales & Marketing officer, reporting to President Marc Jennings. Most recently she was SVP for the Avalon Publishing Group (now part of Perseus). She can be reached at mmartin [at] americanmap.com.

New York Times Book Review editor and essayist Rachel Donadio announced via e-mail that she is leaving the Book Review to work as the Times’ bureau chief in Rome, starting this fall.

Helen Boomer joined HarperCollins Children’s Books as the Executive Director of Subsidiary Rights, replacing Jean Rosen. Boomer was previously at Viking and Puffin Children’s Books and started her career as a Subsidiary Rights Associate at William Morrow. . . . Laura Pillar Kaplan has gone to HarperCollins Children’s as Associate Director of Publicity. She had been at Goldberg McDuffie and, previously, Doubleday. Meanwhile, Cindy Tamasi has been promoted to Assistant Director of Publicity, and Melissa Dittmar has been promoted to Publicity Manager.

The Overlook Press announced that David Falk has been appointed Director of Sales & Marketing. Falk, who reports directly to Overlook Publisher Peter Mayer, will assist him in “numerous sales and publishing related activities.” Most recently, Falk was Director of National Accounts at Houghton Mifflin.

Geoffrey Stone has joined Running Press as an editor, focusing on cookbooks. He was previously Editor in Chief at Rutledge Hill/Thomas Nelson.

Daisy Hutton will join Thomas Nelson as VP of International Licensing in September. She was Rights Director at Harvard Business School Press.

Katie Henderson, who was previously at Bloomsbury, has become an Associate Editor at Doubleday.

Ethan Friedman has left Collins Business, where he was a Senior Editor.

Scholastic’s Director of Subsidiary Rights Linda Biagi has left the company. Scholastic’s Director of Spanish Publishing, Macarena Salas, has also resigned.

Rhalee Hughes has been named Executive Director of Publicity and Marketing at Octopus USA. She was previously Publicity Director at the Penguin Young Readers Group.

Marc Fierz has become Director of Strategic Partnerships at Waterfront Media, the company that builds Web sites in the diet, fitness, and health categories, including South Beach Diet and Duke Diet & Fitness. He was previously at Amazon.com. Debra Davidson has been named Senior Director of Research, and Amy Feng is Senior Director of Client Services. Davidson was at About.com, and Feng was most recently at CondéNet, where she managed client services.

Emma Parry has left the Fletcher & Parry Agency “to pursue new challenges” as of July 1. Christy Fletcher will take over Parry’s clients.

PROMOTIONS & INTERNAL CHANGES

With Abrams SVP President and Publisher Steve Tager, Charles Kochman is launching Abrams ComicArts. Kochman was recently promoted to Executive Editor at Abrams.

Lisa Gallagher announced that Jennifer Brehl has been promoted to SVP of Morrow. She was VP, Director of Editorial Development. She will continue to edit Terry Pratchett for the Harper list. . . . Jack Womack has been promoted to Associate Director of Publicity at Morrow, and Brianne Halverson and Jennifer Slattery have both been promoted to the title of Senior Publicity Manager.

At Atria, Peter Borland has been promoted to Editorial Director. Borland and Emily Bestler will both report to Publisher Judith Curr. The position of Associate Publisher is still open.

Candlewick is restructuring its Sales and Marketing operations, and adding a layer that will report to the newly created position (still to be filled) of SVP of Sales and Marketing, according to PW. As part of the restructuring, Susan Batcheller has been promoted to Executive Director, Marketing Services and Sales Ops. Charlie Schroder, VP of Marketing and Development, is moving over to rights, including digital rights. Schroder will be working on a contract basis out of New York. In response to changes in the production department at parent company Walker Books (UK), Candlewick former Sales and Marketing Services Director Kim Lanza has been named to the position of Executive Director of Production and Manufacturing, Allison D’Andrea has been named Director of Production and Manufacturing, and Sally Bratcher has been named Executive Managing Editor.

John Rudolph has been promoted to Executive Editor for Putnam Books for Young Readers. He was previously a Senior Editor and has been with Putnam since August 2001.

Erin C. Smith has been promoted to Publicity Manager at Beaufort Books. Smith joined the New York City–based publisher last year and, before that, worked for parent company Midpoint Trade Books.

Beth Parker has been promoted to Associate Publicity Director and Amanda Walker has been promoted to Publicity Manager in the Dutton and Gotham Publicity department.

DULY NOTED

Francisco Goldman has initiated the Aura Estrada Prize as a memorial to his late wife. It will be awarded every two years to a female writer of creative prose, aged thirty-five or younger, who writes in Spanish and lives in Mexico or the United States. The Aura Estrada Prize will be formally announced at the Guadalajara Book Fair in November 2008, and the first winner will be announced at the fair a year later. The Co-Chair Committee includes Paul Auster and Siri Hustvedt, Salman Rushdie, Peter Carey and Frances Coady, Junot Díaz, Morgan Entrekin, Binky Urban and Ken Auletta, and others.

UPCOMING EVENTS

In celebration of its name change from McNally Robinson to McNally Jackson, the bookstore is holding an event on August 7 from 7 to 9 PM. Authors including Nathan Englander, Kate Christensen, Joseph O’Neill, and Colson Whitehead will both serve food and drinks and recommend books.

Claiming it is taking over the now-defunct New York Is Book Country, which ran as a nonprofit from 1979 until 2005, Nielsen Business Media is creating a new “festival” with the same name. It will take place on September 21 in Central Park. For more information, go to www.newyorkisbookcountry.com.

J. P. Leventhal, Publisher and Founder of Black Dog & Leventhal, has been named the honoree at the Goddard Riverside Benefit Gala on October 27. For more information, go to www.goddard.org.

HarperCollins announced a new management structure following Jane Friedman’s June 4 resignation and the appointment of Brian Murray as President and CEO HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide. Michael Morrison was also promoted to President and Publisher, U.S. General Books and Canada, and Victoria Barnsley has been promoted to CEO and Publisher HCUK and International, overseeing the UK, Australia, New Zealand, India, and South Africa.

Bob Miller, whose new publishing venture is called HarperStudio, has hired Debbie Stier from Morrow as SVP, Associate Publisher, though she will also be Director, Digital Marketing Development for General Books at HC. Julia Cheiffetz has been hired as Senior Editor. She was previously at Random House.

Steve Black has been named Director of Sales for Oxmoor House, in the New York office.

Matt Schwartz has joined Random House Publishing Group as Director, Digital Strategy and Business Development, reporting to Andrea Sheehan. He was most recently Director of Online Marketing for the Children’s Publishing division at Simon & Schuster. Meanwhile, Christina Pecorale has moved from Random House to S&S, where she’s the new Director of National Accounts.

Felicia Frazier has been named SVP, Director of Sales at the Penguin Young Readers Group. She had been VP, Sales Director for national accounts at Random House.

Tim Mak is returning to Random House. He will be joining the Academic Marketing Department as Marketing Coordinator on July 7. He was most recently at H20 Associates. Prior to that, he was at HarperCollins and Ballantine.

Karen Cooper is the new Publisher of Adams Media, having left the book division of parent company F+W.

Taline Najarian has been named Director of Special Sales for Scholastic.

Layoffs at HarperCollins Children’s Books: Anne Miller Attanas, Ruth Katcher, Melanie Donovan, Claire Hutton, Adriana Dominguez, and Mary Albi.

Tom Stewart has left Harvard Business School Press, where he was Editor of the Harvard Business Review.

John Nee, SVP of Business Development at DC Comics, is leaving the company. However, David Hyde, DC Comics VP of publicity, declined to confirm the report and said that DC Comics does not comment on personnel matters.

Leigh Haber has stepped down as VP Editorial Director at Rodale’s Modern Times imprint. As a result of Haber’s departure, Rodale will close the Modern Times imprint after publishing all the titles currently signed up under it.

Ann Campbell has left Broadway, where she was a Senior Editor. She plans to take on freelance editing and writing starting in September and can be reached at annwcampbell08 [at] gmail.com. The company is looking for her successor.

Joy de Menil has been named Executive Editor of Viking, reporting to Clare Ferraro. She joins the company from The Atlantic Monthly, where she was a senior editor, and will work from both Washington and New York.

Genoveva Llosa has joined Ten Speed Press as a Senior Editor acquiring business, career, mind-body-spirit, and parenting books. She was previously at Collins, Crown, and HBS Press.

Beryl Needham has left Borders, where she was mostly recently VP, Merchandising.

Emily Carleton has joined McGraw-Hill Professional as an editor in the Consumer group. She was an Associate Editor at Wiley.

Anne Savarese has been named Executive Editor of Princeton University Press.

Phoenix Books has hired Gray Peterson as VP Sales and Marketing. He headed special/mass market/trade sales for Scholastic and was most recently VP of sales at Dalmatian Press.

Until Labor Day, when she officially starts at Amazon.com in Luxembourg, Madeline McIntosh can be reached at madeline.mcintosh [at] gmail.com.

PROMOTIONS AND INTERNAL CHANGES

Bill Thomas, SVP, Editor-in-Chief, has been promoted to the additional position of Publisher, General Adult Books, Doubleday Publishing Group. Thomas named Stacy Creamer, Deputy Editorial Director, Broadway Books, as Editor-in-Chief, Broadway, and Charles Conrad, Broadway’s Editorial Director, Paperbacks, as the new Deputy Editorial Director for Doubleday.

Author Solutions, Inc. has appointed Diane Gedymin to the position of Executive Editorial Director. Gedymin will oversee editorial for all ASI’s author services brands, including AuthorHouse, iUniverse, and Wordclay. Gedymin had previously worked for iUniverse.

Katie Rose has been named VP Director of Marketing for adult books at Houghton Mifflin Trade & Reference. She was VP of Marketing for the college division.

Arthur A. Levine has been named VP Publisher, Arthur A. Levine Books. He was previously VP and Editorial Director of the imprint.

Grand Central Publishing Executive Editor Rick Wolff has added the title of Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Business Plus imprint, while retaining his current position within GCP. Natalie Kaire is a newly named Senior Editor at Grand Central Publishing.

Paul Taunton has been promoted to to Editor at Random House. Paul will be focusing on ESPN Books in his new position.

Roger Labrie has been promoted to Senior Editor at S&S.

John Fagan has added another title. He is now Marketing Director of eBooks as well as VP and Director of Marketing for Penguin Books and Executive Director, Academic Marketing and Sales, Penguin Group.

Mike Spring, who joined John Wiley & Sons when Hungry Minds was acquired in 2001, is retiring as travel publisher but will become Director of Special Projects and work closely with Wiley’s travel publishing team. Ensley Eikenburg has been promoted to Associate Publisher/Associate Marketing Director of the travel program at Wiley. She has been Associate Marketing Director of travel and reference publishing. She continues to report to Claire Griffin.

Richard Rhorer is taking on the new position of Director of Digital Business development for Macmillan. He has been Director of Marketing for the Henry Holt adult imprints.

More HC news: Kathy Schneider has been promoted to SVP. Seale Ballenger has been promoted to VP, Group Publicity Director, for William Morrow, Morrow Cookbooks, HarperEntertainment, and Eos. Dee Dee De Bartlo has been promoted to Senior Director of Publicity and new initiatives for Morrow, HarperEntertainment, Eos, and Morrow Cookbooks. Richard Ljoenes has been promoted to Vice President, Senior Art Director at Collins.

Baker & Taylor has promoted David Cully to President, Retail Markets. He will add domestic and international retail book and entertainment sales to his merchandising, purchasing, and Baker & Taylor Marketing Services responsibilities. Bill Preston, SVP Books, and Frank Wolbert, SVP Entertainment, now report to Cully.

Michael Connor has been named senior editor of the Quality Paperback Book Club, and he will continue to have editorial responsibility for InsightOut Books. QPB executive editor Gary Jansen has left the company.

DULY NOTED

The American Bookseller Association’s marketing cooperative, Book Sense, has changed its name to IndieBound. Member stores no longer have to pay a separate fee to participate, but just have to be ABA members. Authors can be affiliates of the Book Sense/IndieBound website and earn similar affiliate fees as with Amazon or Powell’s.

The Chronicle of Higher Education notes that “540 press directors, editors, digital technologists, marketing and business specialists, and other interested parties, including representatives from Google and Amazon.com” attended the AAUP’s annual meeting in Montreal from June 26–29. Topics covered included the move toward open access, problems of over-publishing, Amazon and POD, and, of course, returns. Google Book Search seemed to be one of the few areas where (almost) everyone involved was happy to be so. The 2009 Annual Meeting will take place from June 18–21 in Philadelphia.

UPCOMING EVENTS

On July 31 at 6:30 PM, Mad. Sq. Reads, Madison Square Park Conservancy’s free series of summer readings, presents The Wisest, Kindest Voice: A Celebration of the Work and Life of William Maxwell, featuring Christopher Carduff, Benjamin Cheever, Edward Hirsch, Daniel Menaker, and Stewart O’Nan.

Deb Futter has moved to Grand Central Publishing as VP, Editor-in-Chief. She was VP, Deputy Editorial Director at Doubleday. Michelle Rapkin has joined Hachette’s Center Street imprint as Executive Editor, reporting to Rolf Zettersten. She had been VP, Director of Doubleday Religion before leaving there in 2005. Amy Pierpont has been named Editorial Director at Forever and Senior Editor at Grand Central. She had been at Clarkson Potter.

Reed Boyd VP, Sales Director International and Special Sales, has left Random House but may still be reached at rboyd[at]randomhouse.com.

Daisy Kline has been named Director of Marketing and Brand Management at Scholastic Media. Ann Forstenzer has joined Scholastic as Director, Cross-Channel, reporting to Jazan Higgins, VP, Cross-Channel Strategy. She had been at Learning Resources. Chris Stengel has joined Scholastic as Associate Art Director.

Douglas Pocock, EVP Egmont USA, which will launch in January 2008, has hired Elizabeth Law as VP and Publisher. She was previously at Simon & Schuster. Egmont will be distributed by Random House.

Angela Bole is moving to John Wiley & Son’s Professional & Trade division as Events Manager. She was previously at BISG. She may be reached at angelabole[at]gmail.com. Karen Forster, previously at SPi Publishing, succeeds her.

Following Neil Bogaty’s desparture for Adobe, Michael Smith has been named Executive Director of the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF). Prior to joining the IDPF Smith was at Harlequin Enterprises where he managed eBook and book production services.

Deb Brody has been named Executive Editor at Harlequin. She had been most recently at McGraw-Hill. . . . Furaha Norton has moved to The New Press as Editor. She was most recently an editor at Vintage/Anchor. Joseph Williams is the new CFO of The New Press. He previously held positions at The New York Times Company, the Reader’s Digest and McGraw-Hill.

After 21 years, Nancy Hall closed her business last summer but has reopened as The Book Shop, Ltd., offering full-service book development. Contact info@thebookshop ltd.com or 917-388-2493.

Kevin Hamric has been named VP Sales & Marketing for the Quayside Group. He was at The Taunton Press. Mike Hejny has left Motorbooks, which was recently acquired by Quayside.

Darcy Cohan has joined Chronicle Books as Director of Publicity. Cohan was most recently Publicity Manager for Avalon Publishing Group and, prior to that, ran her own publicity firm. She replaces Andrea Burnett who is returning to her own pr firm.

Judy Pray has moved to Clarkson Potter as an Editor. She was at Black Dog & Leventhal. . . . Ann Treistman has joined Skyhorse Publishing as Senior Editor. Most recently she was a freelancer at STC and Abrams Image.

Scott Lubeck has joined NewsStand as VP and General Manager of its newspaper and magazine digital publishing service division. He was most recently at Harvard Business School Publishing.

Alex Clark has been named Deputy Editor at Granta. She had been Deputy Literary Editor at the New York Observer.

Krupp Kommunications (K2) announces that Tiffany Alvarado has joined the agency as Senior Account Executive. She comes to the agency from Planned Television Arts.

PROMOTIONS

HarperCollins announced that Larry Nevins has been promoted to the newly created position of Chief Supply Chain Officer and Senior Vice President of Global Digital Operations. He joined the company in 2001 as SVP of Operations and Supply Chain and established the Digital Publishing Services department in 2005.

Sanyu Dillon, Associate Publisher and Director of Marketing at Random House, has been named VP.
Rachel Bender has been promoted to Director of Consumer Products at Scholastic. Abigail McAden has been promoted to Publishing Director, Paperbacks for Scholastic Paperbacks and Point. She was previously Editorial Director for Point. Cheryl Klein has been promoted to Senior Editor, Arthur A. Levine Books. She was previously Editor. AnnMarie Harris has been promoted to Senior Editor, Licensed Publishing. She was previously Editor.

Lizette Serrano has been promoted to Associate Director for Trade Conventions, Conferences, Events and Author Programs at Scholastic. She was previously Senior Manager. Barrie Reinhold has been promoted to Associate Manager of Sales and Marketing Operations. She was previously Assistant Manager.

Beryl Needham and Kathryn Popoff have both been promoted to VP, Merchandising, at Borders, reporting to EVP Merchandising and Marketing, Rob Gruen.

Michael Homler has been promoted to Editor at St. Martin’s, reporting to Charlie Spicer. . . . Erica Sanders-Foege has been promoted to Senior Editor, books at The Taunton Press. She had been Editor.
Laura Pillar has been promoted to Director of Publicity at Goldberg McDuffie. In addition to continuing to work on general non-fiction and fiction titles, she now heads up GMC’s Business Division.

Leslie Hulse has been named to the new role of VP, Digital Business Development at HarperCollins. Rachel Chou has been named to the position of VP, Online Product Development and Operations. Both report to Carolyn Pittis. And Mumtaz Mustafa has been promoted to Art Director of Avon Trade and Rayo. Milan Bozic has been promoted to Art Director of Harper Perennial and Harper paperbacks.
Michael Campbell has been named Director of Sales and Marketing at Graphic Arts Center Publishing Company. He was Corporate and Specialty Sales Manager and replaces Mike Jones who’s moving to Keen Communications, LLC.

Recorded Books announced the promotion of Scott Williams to President. He replaces David Berset, who has left the company “to pursue other interests.” Williams joined Recorded Books in 1992 as a Public Library Sales Representative.

Promotions at American Booksellers Association include: Jill Perlstein has been named Director of Member Services; Kristen Gilligan has been named Director of Meetings and Events; Mark Nichols has been promoted to Senior Director of Publishing Initiatives; Dan Cullen has been named Senior Director, Editorial Content; Meg Smith has been named Chief Marketing Officer; Len Vlahos has been named Chief Program Officer, and will continue to oversee BookSense.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS

The 20th Independent and Small Press Book Fair will take place on December 1-2 at the New York Center of Independent Publishing (NYCIP), at 20 West 44th Street. More than 100 presses from the U.S. and abroad will exhibit. For more information contact the NYCIP at 212-764-7021, visit www.nycip.org, or e-mail Christopher de la Torre at christopher[at]nycip.org.
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In conjunction with the Book Fair, the New York Center for Independent Publishing hosts its first Mini-Rights Fair on Friday, November 30th at 2pm. This event is designed to provide publishers with information regarding sub-rights and foreign rights sales. Activities include an educational panel and a keynote address from Pat Schroeder, President of the American Association of Publishers.
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On December 13 from 6-8 Peter Mayer and The Overlook Press will be honored at the NYCIP Annual Benefit. Ed Victor will present the Poor Richard Award and Sara Nelson will host. Please contact nycip@nycip.org for further information.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Eat, Drink & Be Literary program starts again in January, with George Saunders talking on January 17, and Deborah Eisenberg on February 7th. For details go to: http://www.bam.org/ events/readings.aspx

DULY NOTED

What has briefly been called Direct Group North America will now be known as Bertelsmann Direct North America.
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A memorial service for Jane Pasanen will be Friday, November 30 at 3:00pm, at the Church of St. Luke in the Fields, 487 Hudson Street, New York City. Pasenen was founder of the Chelsea Forum.
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And from Workman comes The Bad President Countdown Calendar. It contains 488 days of quotes and quips that will make you laugh and/or cry right through January 20, 2009, when George W. Bush vacates the White House. If you’d like a free copy, send an email to James Wehrle (james[at]workman.com).

Hopping over to Sweden we encounter a Nordic wonder by the name of Mons Kallentoft. Mr. Kallentoft has proven his versatile capabilities by successfully alternating his literary focus from the animate to the inanimate (and no, we’re not talking corpses). After dabbling in the realm of nonfiction with the release of Food Noir in 2005, a groundbreaking collection of food and travel pieces, the worldly Kallentoft has since returned to home sweet Stockholm and the equally familiar realm of crime fiction. His latest offering, Midwinter’s Sacrifice, is the first in a series that will follow Detective Superintendent Malin Fors, a single working mother struggling to prevent the tragedies that blight her personal past from affecting her professional future. In this inaugural episode, Malin Fors and her colleagues on the police squad undertake the formidable task of determining how a naked obese man came to be hanging from a tree in the dead of winter. Part crime novel, part Deliverance, Kallentoft weaves a chilling, yet compelling tale set in the isolated backwoods of the city of Linköping. Lotta Ollson of Sweden’s Dagens Nyheter pinpoints how Kallentoft’s effective narrative strategy allows a story with roots in one genre to elevate itself to an entirely different level, “The originality does not need to be based on the choice of subject matter. . . . Instead, Kallentoft shifts the perspective ever so slightly, to a different language, a different mood. Only just enough so that one feels lost. It’s a new territory, that Linköping where Malin Fors lives.” And with Midwinter’s Sacrifice recently breaking the top 10 on the Swedish bestseller list, it seems readers have been more than willing to brave this uncharted terrain with Kallentoft as their guide. Talk about getting off to a running start, Kallentoft received an incredibly warm reception for his first novel, Pesetas (Natur & Kultur, 2000), a thriller that received the prestigious Writer’s Associations award for best debut. Since then Kallentoft has not only produced an equally gripping follow-up Marbella Club, but also racked up accolades for chronicling his aforementioned epicurean adventures. Contact Bengt Nordin (bengt.nordin @nordimagency.com). Rights have been sold to Sweden (Natur & Kultur), Germany (Rowohlt), Holland (Ambo Anthos) and Denmark (Gyldendal).

But taking a step outside the scene of the crime for a moment, it is worthwhile to mention some slightly less mysterious, but equally intriguing Scandinavian authors. Enter the wildly successful Swedish memoir/fiction writer Kanja Ingemarsson, whose breakthrough came in 2005 with the lighthearted read, Yesterday’s News (Små citroner gula), a title that sold the most copies in Sweden during 2005 – beating out both Dan Brown and J.K Rowling. With this impressive track record (and presumably lifelong bragging rights), it is no wonder that Ms. Ingemarrsson has garnered some considerable international attention. And while her previous novel is in the midst of being optioned for a film in Sweden, this fall Ms. Ingemarsson will unveil her newest novel, Wheels of Fortune. The story of a quiet suburban town where three women at different stages of their lives come together when a mysterious new woman moves into town, it seems Ingemarsson has mastered a Swedish take on Desperate Housewives, with slightly more heart and slightly less teeth. After the impressive public success of her last novel, the anticipation for Ingemarsson’s fourth novel is palpable. For more information, contact Bengt Nordin. Right have been sold in Sweden (Forum, Månpocket), Germany (DTV), Finland (Otava), The Netherlands (De Kern), Denmark (People’s Press), and Russia (Fluid).

On the more serious end of the spectrum, Norwegian author Herbjorg Wassmo has met with comparable critical success and international interest. The heavily lauded Wassmo has received The Nordic Literary Prize, the Norwegian Critics’ Prize, Norwegian Booksellers’ Prize, as well as being named a First Class Knight of the Order of St. Olav. In her most recent novel And a Glass of Milk, Please. Wassmo takes on the subject of drug trafficking from the perspective of naive 15 year old Dorte, a poor Lithuanian girl who accepts an offer to work in a restaurant in Stockholm with dreams of an exotic adventure only to belatedly discover that she has landed herself in dire circumstances. Juxtaposing the horrors of human brutality with the beauty of her light linguistic touch, Wassmo’s And a Glass of Milk, Please is a novel that is bound to resonate on a universal level and possibly reunite the author with an American audience nearly a decade after her previous novels The House With The Blind Glass Windows and Dina’s Book were published in translation by Seal Press. For more information contact Eva Lie-Nielsen (eva.lie-nielsen[at]gyldendal.no). Rights have been sold in Russia, Netherlands, France, Denmark, Lithuania.

Need any more convincing about the extensive virtues of Scandinavian literature? Look to the UK where a record nine Danish titles were translated into English over the past year. To celebrate this feat, a number of publishing houses are working together to facilitate the Danish Invasion Tour where some of the leading Danish authors will tour the UK. The tour was organized by literary producer Christine Paris, and is supported by the Danish Arts Council, the Embassy of Denmark and Arts Council England. The tour began on May 22, and runs until Oct 13. Touring authors include Morten Ramsland (Doghead), Janne Teller (Odin’s Island), Leif Davidsen (The Serbian Dane) and Christian Jungersen (The Exception). The authors (and a few translators) will be presenting their books, holding public readings at all of the larger U.K. literary festival, and hosting workshops in selected bookshops and libraries throughout England. US publishers take note – To turn a phrase, it seems something is Danish in the state of Shakespeare.