Jonathan Karp is now settled in as EVP and Publisher of the Simon & Schuster trade imprint. Karp, who succeeds David Rosenthal, came from Twelve, an imprint of the Hachette Book Group that he founded in 2005. A new Publisher for Twelve is actively being recruited.

Isabel Swift, who was Editor Emeritus at Harlequin, has launched her own media and communications company, Swift Global Media, and will consult on literary projects and programs. She may be reached at isabel [at] swiftglobalmedia [dot] com.

Suzanne Murphy has started at Disney Publishing Worldwide as VP Publisher, reporting to Jeanne Mosure. She had been VP, Publisher of Trade Publishing and Marketing at Scholastic. Coincidentally, Ellie Berger, Scholastic’s President of Trade Publishing, announced that Miriam Farbey has been hired to the newly created position of Global Publisher, Nonfiction, for the Trade Publishing division. Meanwhile, Cecily Kaiser, who was Editorial Director in the trade division for Cartwheel and Little Scholastic, joins Abrams in the new role of Publishing Director of books for kids under five.

Denise Cronin, VP and Director of Random House Subsidiary Rights, announced that Toby Ernst has been hired as the Random House Publishing Group Domestic Rights Manager. She was previously at Sterling.

Sheryl Stebbins has joined Kaplan on a permanent basis as Executive Director of the editorial group. She had been a consultant for the company. Previously, she was Director of Author Marketing Solutions at Author Solutions.

Judith McCarthy, Publisher, Consumer Group at McGraw-Hill, has left the company to attend Rutgers University School of Law. She had been at McGraw-Hill since 2005.

Helen Boomer has been named VP, Director of Subsidiary Rights at Penguin Children’s. She had been Executive Director of Subsidiary Rights at HarperCollins. Nancy Conescu will join Dutton Children’s as Executive Editor on July 6, reporting to President Lauri Hornik. Most recently, she was Senior Editor at Little, Brown Children’s.

Macromark, Inc., an “acquisition, retention, and monetization media agency,” announced that Brian Murphy has become its new Director of Interactive Technology. He was a Web Development Manager at Scholastic.

John Wicker has been named head of the publishing segment for the North American Consulting Media & Information Services group of Tata Consultancy Services. He was most recently EVP of Sales at Klopotek.

Continuum’s Sales & Marketing Director, Ken Rhodes, has taken on global oversight of sales from the UK. Thomas Willshire, US VP Sales, has left the company and may be reached at twill44 [at] verizon [dot] net.

Susan Renouf, VP and Associate Nonfiction Publisher at McClelland & Stewart, has retired. She plans to focus on freelance consulting and editing and may be reached at susan [at] abanakiconsulting [dot] com.

Lauren Wohl is stepping down as Associate Publisher of Roaring Brook Press/Farrar, Straus & Giroux Books for Young Readers/First Second, but will continue to consult for Macmillan. She may be reached at llwohl [at] aol [dot] com.

Peternelle Van Arsdale has left Putnam to become a freelance editor and ghostwriter. Her new company is called pva books, inc., and she may be reached at pva [at] pvabooks [dot] com.

In other editorial news, Catherine Onder has been named Senior Editor at Hyperion. She had been an editor at HarperCollins. . . . Niki Papadopoulos has moved to McGraw-Hill from Public Affairs. . . . Holly Halverson has been named Senior Editor at Howard Books. She was an editor at Hachette. . . . James Jayo has joined Globe Pequot as an editor at Lyons Press. He had been an associate manager of foreign rights at Crown. Anna Bliss is also joining Lyons Press, as an editor-at-large. She previously held positions at Overlook, HarperCollins, and Sobel Weber Associates.

Hachette has hired two new senior-level employees in its New York office. Kate Hartson is now Senior Editor for the Center Street imprint, and Andrea Glickson is Marketing Director for the FaithWords and Center Street imprints. Both report to SVP Rolf Zettersten. Hartson most recently owned her own company, Yorkville Press. Glickson was most recently Director of Publicity and Marketing for Octopus Books USA.

Other Press has hired Sarah Reidy as Director of Publicity. She had been an Associate Director of Publicity at Gallery/Threshold Editions/Pocket.

Literary agent Paul Fedorko has left Trident and joined the N. S. Bienstock Talent Agency.

Allison Korleski is joining Interweave as Acquisitions Editor for the book division, a new position. She was a book buyer at Barnes & Noble.

Adrienne Schultz, who was an editor at Penguin’s Portfolio imprint, has left to become a freelance editor.

Recent departures for as yet unnamed greener pastures are Denise McGann from Rodale, where she was Director of Rights Acquisition, and Judi Powers from DK, where she was Director of Marketing and Public Relations.

Promotions and Internal Changes

Borders’ Mark Bierley has become COO and continues as CFO. He started at the company in 1996.

As is appropriate given the ethereal nature of the job, Penguin is moving Dan Ruffino, who is based in Australia as Marketing and Publicity Director, to New York to assume the position of Group Digital Director for Penguin Group Worldwide, and reporting to John Makinson, who is based in London.

Crown VP, Digital and Marketing Strategy and Publisher, eBooks, Philip Patrick announced that Donna Passannante has been named Deputy Marketing Director, Crown Publishing Group, responsible for the marketing of Clarkson Potter, Potter Style, Potter Craft, Watson-Guptill, Monacelli Press, and paperback programs. Jay Sones takes on expanded responsibility as Marketing Manager for Three Rivers Press and Broadway paperbacks and eBooks. Jacob Bronstein is now Digital Marketing and New Product Development Director, and Patty Berg is Marketing Director, Crown Publishers and Broadway Books. Meredith McGinnis was appointed Marketing Director, Crown Archetype and Crown Business.

At Hachette Digital, Neil DeYoung has been promoted to Executive Director, Liz Kessler moves up to the new position of Digital Managing Editor, and Alessandra Aliquo becomes Digital Operations and Client Services Coordinator.

At NBN, Catherine Forrest Getzie has been promoted to Director of the newly created Electronic Publishing Department. She was Fusion Services Manager.

Jon Ackerman has been named Sales Director at Adams Media. He had been National Accounts Sales Manager.

Megan Wilson has been promoted to Senior Publicity Manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

Heidi Graynor has been named VP of Sales Administration at Penguin. She had been Director of Sales Administration. Camilla Sanderson has been named VP Digital Business Development at Penguin Children’s, from VP Subrights.

Christina Amini has been promoted from Senior Editor to Executive Editor, Formats, at Chronicle. Beth Weber has been promoted to Associate Publishing Director, Custom Publishing, from Publishing Manager.

Carrie Swetonic has been promoted to Associate Marketing Director at Dutton. Krista Marino has been promoted to Executive Editor at Delacorte.

Viking Penguin has promoted Liz Van Hoose to Editor. She has been at Viking since 2008.

Matt Schwartz, VP, Director of Digital Marketing & Strategy at Random House Publishing Group, announced that Lisa Turner has been promoted to Digital Project Manager. She has been Associate Managing Editor for Ballantine and its imprints since 2007.

Christine Gillespie has been promoted to VP, Associate Publisher for Knopf, Pantheon, and Schocken, continuing to report to Patricia Johnson.

Frank Nunez has been promoted to VP, Business Operations at Simon & Schuster, reporting to Joe D’Onofrio.

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Ex-Random House CEO and current CEO of AKS Marketing & Media, Markus Wilhelm, wins the Direct Marketing Educational Foundation’s Vision Award.

Congrats to Shelf Awareness, which celebrates its fifth anniversary this month.

Each speaker talked not only about his or her own books, but about other authors and titles. Favorites included Jay Asher‘s Th1rteen R3asons Why (which was initially a tough sell for Penguin because it deals with teen suicide); the phenomenally successful Diary of a Wimpy Kid, which gained its following through Scholastic book clubs; and, of course, Little, Brown’s Twilight series—books that all the students seemed to have read. Megan Tingley talked about hating both romance and horror genres, but falling in love with the manuscript of Twilight on a plane trip to California . . . and the rest is history.

But everyone had their mega-successes, and Berger talked about Rick Riordan‘s 39 Clues and Suzanne Collins‘s Hunger Games series, while Feiwell discussed inventing the children’s series market with brands such as The Babysitters Club and Goosebumps. Weisberg mentioned John Green‘s ability to communicate with his readers via his own website, sparksflyup.com, and gave as an example a recent book signing, where a thousand fans showed up to see him.

In the end, everyone agreed that children’s book publishers will always have a place finding and promoting authors, regardless of which formats are used for reading in years to come. What excites this particular set of publishers is that now children’s books (which have always been a source of profit for their houses) are getting the attention they deserve. As Tingley said about her author Stephenie Meyer (who recently appeared in concert with her favorite band): “Who would have believed people would think of an author as a rock star?” But Meyer, and J. K. Rowling, John Green, and others have proven that while you can’t make the book jacket too sexy (or scary), it doesn’t mean their authors aren’t cool.

Sales was where the action was this past month, with big changes at Random House, S&S, Abrams and elsewhere. Mary Wowk, Director of World Wide Sales at Black Dog & Leventhal, has been appointed VP, Sales of HNA, which includes Abrams, STC and distributed lines. In a separate announcement, Katrina Weidknecht has been appointed Executive Director of Publicity for HNA. She was formerly Senior Director of Public Relations at Rodale.

David Rosen, former VP, Editor-in-Chief of Bookspan‘s Community Clubs, and most recently at Abrams, becomes Editor-in-Chief of Progressive Book Club (PBC), a new online book-club service to be launched later in the year. Contact: drosen@progressivebookclub.com. Also moving to PCB is Michelle Berger, another Bookspan alum.

Robert Baensch, who has long been involved in NYU’s publishing program, announced his retirement. Andrea Chambers continues as Director of both the MS and non-degree programs.

Editorial exits from Rodale include: Mariska van Alst, who is staying home after maternity leave, and Amy Super, who is moving to Pittsburgh.

Lisa Levinson has been appointed to the newly created position of Sales and Marketing Director for Time Out Guides, overseeing North America and Latin America. She was previously at S&S, most recently as Director of National Accounts. She can be reached at lisal@timeoutny.com. Time Out Guides are distributed by PGW. And speaking of S&S, Simon & Schuster Children’s, Justin Chanda has been named Associate Publisher, replacing Elizabeth Law and reporting to Rubin Pfeffer.

Julie Christopher has been hired as Associate Director of Marketing, for S&S Children’s, moving from Harper Children’s. Meanwhile, Mark von Bargen, National Accounts for children’s books at S&S has left the company. He may be reached at vonbarm@comcast.net. Lynn Smith, also previously at S&S Children’s, has joined Scholastic as Director of Licensed Publishing, reporting to Ellie Berger, SVP and Publisher. Corinne Van Natta has joined Scholastic as Director of Mass Market and Special Sales, reporting to Alan Smagler, VP of Sales. She too was previously Director of Mass Market Children’s Sales for S&S.

Also moving to Scholastic are Nisha Chakravarty, as Director of Finance, reporting to David M. Ascher VP, Finance. She was previously at Time Inc. Kathleen Rose has joined Scholastic as Marketing Coordinator, reporting to Lizette Serrano. She was previously at the Nielsen Media Company.

Ex-RH Dave Delano has moved to Toppan America’s New York sales office as an account executive. He can be reached at 212-489-7740 x514.

Luisa Weiss is leaving Bettina Schrewe to become a cookbook editor at STC. Anna Cory-Watson is leaving Franklin & Siegal for Harvey Klinger, where she will be building her own list.

Courier has hired Chris Kuppig in the new position of VP of Business Development, Publishing. He has spent the past 10 years as President of management consulting firm Stone Studio.

At Random House: Don Weisberg has left, where he was EVP and COO. Deputy Chairman Edward Volini was appointed to the additional corporate position COO, overseeing the RH Sales Group and Random House of Canada, as well as Financial, Legal, Administrative, and Human Resources areas.

Now reporting to Volini from the Sales Group are Jaci Updike, VP, Director, RH Adult Sales; Joan DeMayo, SVP, Director, RH Children’s Sales; George Fisher, VP, Director, Adult Mass Merchandise Sales; John Bohman, VP, Director, Sales Operations and Planning; Reed Boyd, VP, Director, International, Special Markets and Sales Services; and Dave Thompson, VP, Director, Sales Analysis. His new direct reports from RH of Canada are Brad Martin, President and Chief Executive Officer, and John Neale, Chairman.

Current VP and publisher of RH Reference and Value Publishing Sheryl Stebbins will be leaving the RH Information Group at the end of June.

Sales marketing manager Susan Hettleman will be responsible for RH Value Publishing, and publisher of Princeton Review and Living Language, Tom Russell, will take over the running of RH Reference. RH Proprietary Publishing will be led by Doubleday Broadway VP, sales director Janet Cooke. Kathy Weiss is leaving RH International.

iUniverse, has hired Kathryn Gordon as Director of Author Marketing, responsible for designing and launching a new business unit dedicated to providing marketing services to iUniverse authors. Most recently, Gordon founded The Book Hook, a company that provides freelance marketing services for authors and publishers. She was previously Editorial Director of S&S Online.

Editorial exits from Rodale include Mariska van Alst and Amy Super.

Gotham Senior Editor Erin Moore has relocated to London as her husband takes a new position there, though she will continue to edit and acquire for the imprint.

Dan Verdick, formerly Director of National Accounts and e-commerce at MBI is moving to ABDO as Director of Marketing.

Steve Quinn, formerly BGI Account Manager at Adams Media, has moved to Phaidon to head special sales.

Stephen Roxburgh has been named publisher of Boyds Mills Press, the trade publishing division of Highlights for Children, effective immediately.

Janet Palfreyman has been named Publisher of Allen & Unwin. She was Publisher at RH Australia and left the company in 2006.

Maureen O’Neal, who left ReganBooks last month, may be reached by email at mrnoneal@aol.com or by phone at 310-601-6235.

PROMOTIONS

At Rizzoli, Pam Sommers has been promoted to Executive Director of Publicity. Gerard Nudo, formerly Rizzoli bookstore manager, has joined the publishing side of the business as Sales and Marketing Manager, distribution clients.

Kim Wylie, who has been Director of PGW client sales, will remain in that position following its acquisition by Perseus.

ICM has promoted Sloan Harris to co-head of publications. Harris will share that title with Esther Newberg. Binky Urban, previous co-head, will focus on running the agency’s international book business, especially the London office.

Janet McDonald has been named VP of Client Acquisitions for Ingram Publisher Services. She joined Ingram in 1999 as VP and GM of Spring Arbor Distributors.

At HC, Josh Marwell promoted Kathy Smith to SVP, Sales Administration.
Alexandra Cooper has been promoted to editor at S&S Books for Young Readers; and Jordan Brown, to Associate Editor.

At Scholastic, Anne Henderson has been promoted to Director, Business Planning. She was previously Director, Planning and Analysis. Adrienne Vaughan has been promoted to Senior Manager, Pre-Publication Planning. She was previously Manager, Frontlist Planning. Yanira Castro has been promoted to Manager, Frontlist Planning. She was previously Sales Analyst.

At RH Children’s, Chris Angelilli has been promoted to Editor-in-Chief of Golden Books.

SVP and Publisher David Dunham announced the promotion of Joel Miller to VP Publisher for the Business and Culture book group at Thomas Nelson.

At Llewellyn, Bill Krause has been promoted to Publisher and Acquisitions Manager.

MARCH EVENTS

As part of the celebration of Small Press Month, New Press publisher Andre Schiffrin will appear at the Small Press Center on March 15 at 7 pm to discuss his new memoir, A political Education (Melville House), in a “public conversation” hosted by former NYTBR Editor John Leonard. Small Press Month is launching its first annual National Small Press Month Reading Marathon, to take place on Friday, March 16, 2007, from 6:00-11:00 PM, at Mo Pitkin’s House of Satisfaction, located at 34 Avenue A in New York. Presses include: Soft Skull Press, Akashic Books, City Lights, Litmus Press, and Seven Stories Press. For more information visit www.smallpressmonth.org, and click on the “events” section, or call the Small Press Center, at 212-764-7021.

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The Frankfurt Book Fair is inviting young publishers from around the world to apply for its Frankfurt Fellowship Program, under which 18 people spend two weeks in Germany visiting key publishing cities. The program takes place September 29 – October 14 and ends with attendance at the fair, October 10-14. The deadline is April 30. For further info email: wolffdecarrasco@book-fair.com

Bookseller+Publisher‘s Weekly Book Newsletter reports that Australia and New Zealand both have new, dedicated online bookselling sites with the launch of TheNile.com.au and TheNile.co.nz. “The Nile aims to provide Australian and New Zealand consumers with domestic alternatives to Amazon,” Director Jethro Marks tells WBN. ‘Amazon may be considered the world leader in online bookselling, but they’re 10,000 miles away and do nothing for the local trade. We estimate that overseas sites may be taking hundreds of millions of dollars worth of sales out of the local industry every year.” Next up: LaSeine.fr?
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Congrats to former publishers Bill Rosen and Juliet Nicolson for earning starred Kirkus reviews for their debut books, respectively, Justinian’s Flea and The Perfect Summer.

Will Kiester is returning to the US after 18-months in Australia at Murdoch Books, to become Publisher of Fairwinds Press, an imprint of Rockport Publications. Previously, He had been at Quarto.

Kaylee Davis’ position at Bookspan’s Children’s BOMC/KBP was eliminated in a reorganization. The company has decided to focus the club in a more educational direction, and it now will be run by the professional clubs. She may be reached at kndavis@optonline.net

Effective in January, Basic Books’ JoAnn Miller is “transitioning” out of her role of VP, Editorial Director to Editor at Large. Miller approached Perseus CEO David Steinberger with this “about a month ago,” Miller told PT.

Granta will open a New York office next year, according to The Bookseller. Run by Matt Weiland, currently Deputy Editor of Granta magazine (who will also take on the role of Associate Publisher in the US), Granta is published in association with Grove/Atlantic and distributed to the trade by PGW in the US. Weiland is moving back to New York in January 2007, where he will combine his deputy editorship of the magazine with overseeing its American launch and its spin-off anthologies. He will work initially out of the Grove/Atlantic offices before looking to open a separate office.

As announced elsewhere, Katie Workman, Associate Publisher of Workman, will be leaving at the end of the year. Perhaps in another sign of the parlous cookbook times, Chris Pavone is leaving Workman’s Artisan imprint after just over a year at the company. Last month, cookbook maven Harriet Bell left HarperCollins.

After a short stint at Ingram Publisher Services, Sally Hertz has left the company and has gone back into consulting. She may be reached at BookPublish2@aol.com. . . . Christine Jones has joined S&S as non-trade Sales Director. . . . John Niedhart joined DK as the B&N National Accounts Sales Manager. He has held editorial positions at O’Reilly Media and Addison Wesley and previously had worked at B&N.

Virgin Books has established a U.S. branch with offices in New York City and Ken Siman has been named Publisher, reporting to K.T. Forster, MD of Virgin Books. Siman was VP, Editor, and Publicity Director of Tarcher/Penguin.

Consortium CEO Don Linn, who bought Consortium in 2002, will continue to play “a key role” in the transition until January 1, when he will leave the company. He may be reached at DLinn@cbsd.com.

Farah Miller, Manager of New Media is leaving Knopf for Modern Bride magazine. . . . Laura Quinn, Assistant Director, Domestic Rights at Crown has left the company.

Among the 25 or so Random House sales employees who lost their jobs in the recent cut are Bruce Dasse (203.453.4294), and Marita Yogore, along with reps in the field and sales management people in the New York office.

Diane Reverand has left St. Martin’s after four years there. She may be reached at Dreverand@earthlink.net. . . and Ben Sevier has left St. Martin’s for Touchstone Fireside, where he is be a senior editor.

In a recent article, PW refers to The Children’s Book Council (CBC)’s new Executive Director, Robin Adelson, who was a former associate general counsel at Primedia Inc. She was hired in September, following the retirement of long time Director, Paula Quint.

Lisa Dolan has been named Executive Director of Special Markets at Abrams (HNA Books). She was previously at Rodale.

Justin Loeber has launched Mouth (www.MouthPublicRelations.com) and has signed several clients, including Simply Green author Danny Seo. . . . Elizabeth Hazelton has left the publicity department of Portfolio and Sentinel to go to Doubleday. . . . HarperCollins Publishers announced Sarah Burningham has been named Associate Director of Publicity for Regan. She reports to Suzanne Wickham, Director of Publicity, and is based in New York. Burningham went to ReganMedia from Miramax Books where she was Associate Director of Publicity.

Following the sale of Trafalgar Square to IPG, Oren Silverstein, the New York rep with Proe & Proe is leaving. He may be reached at OSilver@optonline.net

PROMOTIONS

Last month Peter Olson announced that Richard Sarnoff, President of Random House’s Corporate Development Group and Random House Ventures LLC, had added responsibilities as head of Bertelsmann‘s newly established international venture capital fund, Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments. Now he’s been named President of BDMI and Ed Volini takes over as President of the Corporate Dev. Group. The New Media department will now be the responsibility of Andrew Weber, SVP, Operations and Technology.

Meanwhile, Random House Direct Marketing will become part of the Publishing Group, and VP GM Lisa Faith Phillips will report to David Naggar.

Alison Callahan has been promoted to Executive Editor at HarperCollins, effective December 1st. She has been at HarperCollins for six years
David Levithan has been promoted to Editorial Director of Scholastic Press, reporting to Ellie Berger, SVP, Publisher. Levithan also will continue to be Editorial Director for PUSH.

Weldon Owen, Inc. co-founder John Owen announced the appointment of Terry Newell as CEO and President of Weldon Owen’s US operations. Owen will remain as CEO of the Weldon Owen Group, with particular responsibilities for growth and future acquisitions. The Group was acquired in March 2006 by the Swedish Bonnier Corp.

UPCOMING EVENTS

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) and the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF) are hosting a seminar on Managing and Delivering Digital Assets, on November 29, 2006 from 8:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. at AAP, 71 Fifth Avenue, 2nd Floor, New York.

The Small Press Center’s 19th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair will be held December 2nd & 3rd, at the Small Press Center. 3,000 to 4,000 attendees are expected, with over 100 independent presses taking part. Go to http://www.smallpress.org, for further information.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music is gearing up for another season of “Eat, Drink and Be Literary.” Presented in partnership with the National Book Foundation, the first writer in the series is Francine Prose on January 11th. Pete Hamill follows on January 25th, and Michael Cunningham is scheduled for February 15th. Tickets include dinner and drinks. For a full listing visit The NBF www.nationalbook.org, or BAM www.bam.org.

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Word is that the much anticipated Progressive Book Club is gearing to launch in early 2007, with prospective members already signing up. Stayed tuned to http://progressivebookclub.com/

In June 2006, Publishing Trends ran an article on creating a Wikipedia entry. Written by Ann Kirschner (whose book, Sala’s Gift, has just been published: www.salasgift.com), the article was then expanded into a longer piece for The Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle has graciously allowed PT readers to access the article. Go to : http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i13/13b01001.htm

Italians are apparently crazy for him and this year’s Premio Grinzane Cavour Literature Award went to Joe R. Lansdale, “a horror/ mystery/ western/ Texas good ol’ boy writer,” as one observer calls him. Or as Lansdale says on his own website, (www.jrlansdale.com) “The last seven recipients were all Nobel prize award winners, so, y’know, just keep reading and see what happens!” Lansdale’s books are published by Subterranean Press.

Amazon is testing a new mobile phone service, NowNow that allows users to email queries to “live” researchers who will respond within 24 hours. Check out ask@nownow.com.

David Nudo has left The NYT where he was Managing Director of book advertising to become Publisher of Publishers Weekly assuming overall business and editorial responsibility for the magazine. Nudo had earlier worked at Library Journal. PW Editor-in-Chief Sara Nelson tells PT “I am thrilled to have someone of David’s talent and experience as we embark on several, new, exciting initiatives.”

David Rosen has left Abrams, where he was running the Image imprint. He will continue to work on freelance projects. He may be reached at delarose@aol.com or 917 545 1951. Director of Specialty Retail Bill Wolfsthal has also left Abrams, to become Associate Publisher of Skyhorse Publishing, the new company launched by Tony Lyons, from The Lyons Press. The first list of books is planned for Spring 2007. Mark Weinstein, formerly with McGraw-Hill, has been hired as Senior Editor, along with Brando Skyhorse (who donated his name to the venture), formerly at Grove Atlantic.

In Publicity, Amy Corley has returned to Workman from Crown as Executive Director of Publicity. (Former Exec. Dir. Kim Hicks – kimchicks@nyc.rr.com – is remaining at home following the birth of her son, Hyatt.) Chris Dao has joined Krupp Kommunications as Publicity Director. She was at Warner Books for the past six years.

Tim Bent has gone to OUP as Executive Editor Trade History. He had been Senior Editor at Harcourt.

Judy Courtade, VP, Director of Sales at Random, has left the company and may be reached at judy@tcourtade.com or 212 255 0250.

Jennifer Bergstrom, VP and Publisher of Simon Spotlight Entertainment/S&S announced that Michael Broussard has joined the imprint as Acquisitions Manager. Broussard worked as an agent at Dupree/Miller and Associates as an agent, and at ReganBooks.

Neil Levin has left the company he started, Publisher Marketing Group, for National Book Network, as SVP of this company and its subsidiary, Rowman & Littlefield.

Ken Wright, who was most recently VP, Associate Publisher at Scholastic, has become an agent at Writers House, and will continuing his consulting work.

Jake Klisivitch has gone to Palgrave Macmillan as an editor, working primarily on politics. He was previously at Plume. . . . Elizabeth Bewley has been named Senior Editor at Intervisual Books/Piggy Toes Press, reporting to Publisher Debra Mostow-Zakarin. Bewley previously worked for St. Martin‘s and Regan Books. . . Alexis Banyon, most recently with Candlewick Press, has joined innovativeKids as Sales Manager for specialty accounts and independent sales groups. . . Shana Drehs has joined Sourcebooks as Senior Editor for trade. Most recently she was an editor at Crown. Liesa Abrams has joined Aladdin/S&S Children’s as Senior Editor. She was at Razorbill/Penguin.

Chris North, who was Managing Director of Phaidon Press, moves to a position as VP Books at Amazon UK. He starts on October 2 and his new email is cnorth@amazon.co.uk

Stephen Isaacs has joined Bloomberg Press as Executive Acquisitions Editor. Most recently he was an Executive Editor at McGraw-Hill. He reports to editorial director Jared Kieling and will divide his time between Chicago and NYC offices.

Sara Bogush has joined William Morrow and Avon as the new Online Marketing Manager. She comes from Doubleday Broadway where she was Online Marketing Associate.

Running Press announced that Kelli Chipponeri has joined the company as a Senior Editor for Children’s Books and Miniature Editions. She was previously at Penguin and S&S.

PROMOTIONS

Plume Editor-in-Chief and Associate Publisher Trena Keating is going over to Dutton as Editor-in-Chief, reporting to President and Publisher Brian Tart. And Mitch Horowitz has been promoted to Editor-in-Chief of Tarcher.

Sanyu Dillon, Director of Marketing at Random House, has taken on the added title of Associate Publisher trade paperbacks.

Melanie Cecka has been named Publishing Director for both Bloomsbury Children’s Books USA and Walker Books for Young Readers. She was Co-editorial Director of Bloomsbury Children’s.

Ellie Berger, SVP of trade publishing at Scholastic, has been promoted to Publisher and Andrea Davis Pinkney, Publisher, hardcover and early childhood has become an Editor-at-Large reporting directly to President for book fairs and trade, Lisa Holton. VP, Business Development Corinne Helman will “expand her role in the division, overseeing all business operations, planning and financial analysis.”

Philip Turner continues as Editor-in-Chief, Carroll & Graf but has adds the titles of Editor-in-Chief, Thunder’s Mouth Press, VP Avalon Publishing Group, and will be starting up Philip Turner Books, an imprint of C&G. Will Balliett continues as Publisher and Editorial Director of C&G and VP Avalon and becomes Publisher and Editorial Director, TMP.

Lightning Source/Ingram announced the appointment of Ron Powers to the position of VP of Sales and Client Services, reporting to David Taylor, SVP of Global Sales. Most recently, he was VP of Product Management and Merchandise for Ingram.

At Goldberg McDuffie, Angela Baggetta Hayes has been promoted to Director of Publicity.

Liz Kessler has been named Director of Editorial Production for Spark Publishing, and Maria Dente has been named Managing Editor reporting to Kessler. Kevin Baier joined the Spark Publishing group, as Art Director, moving over from B&N Publishing.

Karin Schulze has been promoted to Assistant Director, Foreign Rights at Crown Publishing. She was previously the Foreign Rights Manager and joined Crown in 1999.

HarperCollins announces the promotion of Barbara Lilie to Marketing Director for HarperMedia. She will direct all audiobooks, downloadable audiobooks and e-Books marketing campaigns.

OCTOBER EVENTS

The New Yorker Festival, which runs October 6-8 is kicked off by Fiction Night, featuring paired readings by Jonathan Safran Foer teamed with Edward P. Jones, Lorrie Moore with Julian Barnes, and many more. Book signings accompany many of the conversations, readings and panels. For information go to festival.newyorker.com

The winners of the Quill Awards will be presented on October 10th at the gala at the American Museum of Natural History, and will be hosted by NBC News’ Lester Holt. the awards television special, hosted by Al Roker and Natalie Morales, will air on Saturday, October 28, 2006. For information go to www.thequills.org

Finalists for the 2006 National Book Awards will be announced on October 11 at City Lights Books in San Francisco. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, a co-founder of the store, will make the announcement. The Awards Ceremony and Benefit Dinner takes place on Wednesday, November 15.

The second annual New York Times Great Read in the Park is Sunday, October 15 in Bryant Park. The Great Brunch featuring Mary Higgins Clark, Sebastian Junger, Alice McDermott, Anna Quindlen and Tavis Smiley; and The Great Tea featuring mystery writers Tess Gerritsen, Walter Mosley, Nora Roberts and Jed Rubenfeld, will be held at The Hudson Theatre in the Millennium Broadway Hotel. The Gently Used, Greatly Loved Book Sale will also be held, with proceeds benefiting the New York public libraries and the Fund for Public Schools. For further info: www.nytimes.com\greatreads

DULY NOTED

19th Annual Independent and Small Press Book Fair, will be held December 2nd & 3rd, at the Small Press Center. 3,000 to 4,000 attendees are expected, with over 100 independent presses taking part. Got to http://www.smallpress.org, for further information.

Peter Workman is the honoree at “An evening of Fond Tales and Gentle Roasts,” a benefit for Goddard Riverside. The gala takes place at Tavern on the Green on November 20. Call 212 873 4448 or email bookfair@goddard.org. The 20th Annual New York Book Fair takes place November 17-19.

MAZEL TOV

Roz Parr of Vintage and Charlotte Abbott of Publishers Weekly took the law into their own hands at their Brownstone in Brooklyn on Saturday at an intimate Marriage Ceremony which also commemorated their 10 years together. Many publishing types in attendance.

Betsy Groban has been named VP Publisher of Children’s Books at Houghton Mifflin. She had previously been at WGBH and prior to that, at Little, Brown. Earlier this month Linda Magram was promoted to the new position of Director of Marketing for the entire children’s book group, adding responsibilities for such imprints as Kingfisher and Clarion. And Joe Monti, B&N‘s buyer for Young Readers and Teens joined HM as Children’s National Account Manager.

Oxford University Press announced that EVP, COO Barbara Wasserman, VP Publisher Ellen Chodosh (echodosh@nyc.rr.com) and VP Chief Sales Officer Michael Burkin (mburkin@nyc.rr.com) are leaving the company, following a restructuring that puts academic and trade under Niko Pfund. A new department responsible for all sales and marketing activities in OUP USA excluding Higher Ed) will be created, and a new Sales and Marketing Director appointed, according to the announcement.

Weldon Owen Publishing, newly acquired by Bonnier Publishing, has appointed Christopher Davis, formerly Publisher at Dorling Kindersley, as its Publisher-at-Large to help grow its international co-edition business.

In the AMS musical chairs, Gary Rautenstrauch has been named President and CEO, replacing Bruce Myers, who left last month. He was replaced as CEO at Blackwell by Susan Peterson, who was most recently running her own firm, Strategic Team Partners, and previously Baker & Taylor and Lightning Source.

Following Tami Booth‘s resignation from Rodale Books, and VP Publisher Liz Perl‘s assumption of her duties, Perl has also been given oversight of the international trade books and rights business. President of Rodale International, Gianni Crespi, has left the company.

Jennifer Griffin has left Workman, where she was Executive Editor, for a position as a literary agent at the Miller Agency. . . . Elisa Petrini joins InkWell Management after two years at Vigliano Associates.

Karen Mender has joined the group working with the Quills Literacy Foundation and on this year’s Quill Awards. She was most recently at Atria.

Triumph Books, recently sold to Random House Group, will continue to be based in Chicago. Jeff Rogatz has been named President, reporting to Bill Takes, who was just promoted to SVP, Executive Director, Business Operations and New Business Development.

At Scholastic, Elizabeth Whiting joined the company at the beginning of the month as national account manager for Borders and Walden. She was at Perseus.

John Siciliano has been named Editor of Penguin Classics. He was an associate editor at Vintage/Anchor, where he also acquired classics for the Everyman’s Library. Elda Rotor was recently named Executive Editor of Penguin Classics. She had been most recently Senior Editor at Oxford University Press.

Barrie Rappaport has left Ipsos and is now Director of New Product Development – Consumer Data RR Bowker, LLC.

Michele Jacob has left Free Press to become Director of Publicity at Basic Books following Jamie Brickhouse‘s departure. Meanwhile, ex-VP, Assistant Publisher, and Director of Publicity at PublicAffairs, Gene Taft has relocated to Washington, DC and set up his own public relations firm, GT/PR. He may be reached at GeneTaftPR@aol.com.

Peg O’Donnell has left NBN, to go to Chelsea Green Publishing, as Sales Director. Beau Friedlander also recently joined Chelsea Green Publishing as Marketing Director. He was most recently at ReedBusiness.

Robb Pearlman has been hired in the position of Senior Editor, calendars, children’s books, and licensing at Rizzoli. Pearlman was Associate Director, licensing and brand management at S&S.

Earlier this month Hachette Book Group announced various moves: Jill Cohen left Bulfinch, where she had been Publisher. Bulfinch and Springboard are now part of HBGUSA; David Ford, Publisher of Little, Brown’s children’s division resigned “to follow his dream of returning to London.” Associate Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Megan Tingley has taken Ford’s position. Andrew Smith went to LB children’s from Candlewick, taking over from Bill Boedeker as VP of Marketing and Associate Publisher.

Following Scott Watrous‘s move to Globe Pequot as President and Publisher, he has named Michelle Lewy as VP Sales. Lewy had been acting Sales Director. Meanwhile Adams Media announced changes following Watrous’ departure: Sara Domville, President of the book division of F+W, named Gary Krebs, Karen Cooper and Jeanne Emanual to a three-person executive team.

Laurie Chittenden joined Morrow as Executive Editor, reporting to Lisa Gallagher. She was previously at Dutton.…Sarah McGrath was appointed VP and Executive Editor of Riverhead Books. She was Senior Editor at Scribner. Also leaving Scribner is Lisa Drew, who started her own imprint at Macmillan/ Scribner in 1993. She retires June 30.

Elissa Altman has resigned as Senior Editor at Clarkson Potter to focus on freelance food/gardening/lifestyle editing and writing. She can be reached after May 25th at ElissaAltman@gmail.com.

Gregg Sullivan has been appointed Director of Marketing and Promotions for ReganMedia/HarperCollins. Sullivan, who came from St. Martin’s, reports to Judith Regan. Suzanne Wickham of Wickham-Beaird Public Relations has taken the position of Director of Publicity, Los Angeles for ReganMedia, following the departure of Justin Loeber (who has taken a PR job out of publishing).

This BEA, marks Lance Fensterman’s debut as Show Manager. He had been the store manager at R.J. Julia Booksellers in New Canaan, CT and reports to Courtney Muller, Group VP at Reed Exhibitions.

Earlier this month Farrin Jacobs was named Executive Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books, working mostly on teen fiction for Elise Howard. She was most recently at Harlequin and is autographing her new book (with Sarah Mlynowski) See Jane Write at Quirk’s booth at BEA.

Also at HC, May Wuthrich has joined the HarperMedia group as Editor. Greg Chaput, formerly at HC, has joined SparkNotes as Editor, reporting to newly promoted Editor in Chief, Laurie Barnett.

Kara LaReau joined Scholastic as Executive Editor, Scholastic Press. Most recently, she was a Senior Editor at Candlewick Press. Stacey Lellos rejoined Scholastic as Director of Licensed Publishing, reporting to Ellie Berger, SVP, Trade. Julie Amitie has joined Scholastic as Director of Retail Marketing and Brand Management. Most recently, Amitie was Director of Marketing for S&S Children’s Publishing, At S&S Children’s Mark Von Bargen was hired as Director of National Accounts. He had previously been Director of Merchandising for children’s books at Baker & Taylor. David Carroll also has joined S&S as Director, Distributor Sales and Retail Marketing, reporting to Anne Zafian. Most recently he was VP of Sales at Media Bay‘s Radio Spirits division. . . . Carol Lazare has been named Director of Subsidiary Rights at Other Press, working part-time. She was previously Director of Subsidiary Rights for Doubleday/Broadway.

PROMOTIONS

New Press has promoted Ellen Mastromonaco Adler to Publisher, and Mark Favreau to Editorial Director.

With John Glusman ensconced at Crown, Eric Chinski has now officially been named as the new editor-in-chief at Farrar, Straus. He has been an executive editor there since 2003.

Kathryn Court announced the promotion of Ali Bothwell Mancini to Editor for Penguin and Plume. She reports to Stephen Morrison.

Cecily Kaiser is moving from Scholastic Book Clubs to Scholastic Trade Publishing, effective May 15th, to become Executive Editor for Cartwheel Books and the Licensed Publishing Group, reporting to Ken Geist, Vice President, Editorial Director, Cartwheel Books and Orchard Books.

Many HC promotions: Adrienne DiPietro has been promoted to VP, Director of Marketing Avon Books. Carolyn Bodkin has returned to HC as Manager of Foreign Rights, reporting to Juliette Shapland. Rachel Bressler has moved from Morrow to National Accounts Manager for the Harper, Ecco, San Francisco, Amistad and Perennial imprints selling to B&N. Lynn Grady has been promoted to from Marketing Director to VP, Associate Publisher for the HarperEntertainment, Eos and Morrow Cookbooks lists. Jill Schwartzman has been promoted to Editor. She was previously Associate Editor, Michael McKenzie has been promoted to Director of Publicity of Ecco. Tracey Menzies has been promoted to VP, Creative Operations. Marjorie Braman has moved over to Morrow, acquiring for Morrow and Harper Entertainment and reporting to Lisa Gallagher.

Sue Fleming-Holland has been promoted to VP, Executive Director Consumer and On Line Marketing at S&S. She was VP, Marketing Director. At Scribner, Brant Rumble has been promoted to senior editor.

JUNE EVENTS

June 15th is the postmark deadline for Entry Form for the 2006 National Book Awards. Go to www. nationalbook.org for more information.

DULY NOTED

More than 135 million adults visited American public libraries last year, and students made 1.5 billion visits to school libraries during the school year, according to the first-ever “State of America’s Libraries” report from the ALA, released during National Library Week.

Among other findings: Almost 90% of Americans surveyed in a poll report are satisfied with their public libraries. Some 62% of adult Americans have library cards, and circulation of public library materials has climbed every year since 1990.

Meanwhile, after four months — and in light of JR‘s decision to move to LA, Tracy Carns left ReganBooks, as did Chris Min Park, who joined Warner’s Center Street as a Senior Editor. Maureen O’Neal and Elizabeth Bewley have came to the company (in New York), as Senior Editor and Associate Editor respectively. O’Neal was most recently at Ballantine, and Bewley came over from St. Martin’s.

More moves include that of Dan Harvey, who after 17 years, left Putnam, where he was SVP Publishing Director, though he continues to consult through the end of the year.

And Michael Murphy left F+W where he was VP Sales, shortly before the announcement that it was being acquired by Abry Partners, the private equity firm in Boston. He is joining the Lisa Queen Agency, working from Cincinnati. Queen was Editor-in-Chief at Morrow when Murphy was Publisher.

Perseus Books Group just announced a reorganization of Client Distribution Services (CDS), which includes the promotion of COO Steve Black to head up client services. Meanwhile Gilbert Perlman, President of CDS (and co-founder with Black) has left the company, but will be consulting “over the next several months.”

Daniel Blackman has left Barnes & Noble.com, where he was VP General Manager, for Google, where he will be working on “a new multimedia search initiative called Google Video.”

Random’s Director of Adult Sales, Madeline McIntosh, will take over from Scott Matthews as Publisher of the Random Audio Group beginning in September, reporting to David Naggar. Matthews is leaving “for family reasons.” And Anika Streitfeld has rejoined Ballantine as Senior Editor, effective August 1st and reporting to Editor-in-Chief Nancy Miller. She will be based in San Francisco, where she previously worked for MacAdam/Cage.

In agency news, Kevan Lyon, who left AMS is now working with Sandy Dijkstra, as an agent.. . . . At Trident Media Group, Claire Roberts has joined the agency as Associate Director of foreign rights. She was Assistant Director of sub rights at Doubleday/Broadway for six years. . . . Eileen Cope has left Lowenstein-Yost and joined Trident Media Group as an agent, and former MD of William Morris‘ UK office Stephanie Cabot joins The Gernert Company.

Craig Herman has accepted a job at Spier-NY as VP, Account Director, a newly created position within the marketing services group. He was most recently at S&S. Michelle Lewy recently left Spier.

Suzanne Murphy, VP of Marketing at S&S‘s children’s group, has moved to Scholastic in the same position.. And Jon Rosenburg has joined S&S Children’s as the Editorial Director for the newly launched Simon Scribbles. Meanwhile Kathy Malloy has left Workman for S&S as Marketing Manager, reporting to Michael Selleck.

Elizabeth C. Mackey has moved from Franklin to Audible.com where she is VP, Content Business Development. . . . Gianfranco Monacelli has hired Stephanie Emerson as Senior Editor starting 8/1. She was Publishing Director at the LA County Museum of Art. . . . Columbia University Press announced that Myles C. Thompson, founder and former Publisher of Thomson Texere, will join the press as Publisher of Finance and Economics.

McGraw-Hill Professional named Jack St. Mary VP of Group Sales, overseeing national sales strategy and reporting to Keith Fox. St. Mary was most recently VP, Director of Sales at Random House Children’s Books.
Creative Publishing International, a division of The Quayside Publishing Group has hired as its new Executive Editor, B.J. Berti. She was most recently Editor-in-Chief of Bookspan’s Crafter’s Choice Book Club.

Althea Spellman has joined Atria as Publicity Manager. She ran SpellBound Media, a publicity business for the music industry and replaces Michelle Hinkson, who has returned to working as a freelance publicist.

PROMOTIONS

Random’s Libby McGuire has been promoted to Deputy Publisher, from Associate Publisher. She is a Senior Vice President and reports to Gina Centrello.

Tami Booth Corwin has been named President of Rodale Books; she continues as Editor-in-Chief. Following Amy Rhodes‘ departure, a new Publisher will be hired.

At Scholastic, Ellie Berger has been promoted to SVP, Trade Publishing. She reports to Lisa Holton. And Alan Boyko has been promoted to President for Scholastic Book Fairs. He takes over from David Krishock, who has joined Vista Management as a partner.

Hyperion announced that Editor-in-Chief Will Schwalbe and Publisher Ellen Archer were both promoted to SVP.

Marta Schooler has been named VP and Publisher of Collins Design. She has been associated with what is now Collins Design for more than 25 years, originally coming to HarperCollins in 1999 with the acquisition of Morrow. For the last six years she has served as Creative Consultant . Also, John Williams has been promoted to Editor of Harper Perennial and Harper trade paperbacks, reporting to David Roth-Ey.

Yet more promotions at S&S Children’s Publishing: Justin Chanda was promoted to Executive Editor of Atheneum.

JULY EVENTS

Bloomberg News is stepping up its coverage of the global publishing scene, and tells PT that it will be “dishing out an eclectic mix of book reviews and author interviews. The package is part of Bloomberg Muse, a year-old arts service spearheaded by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Manuela Hoelterhoff, a former Books and Arts Editor of The WSJ. Muse has named a full-time books editor and columnist, James Pressley, a former Page One Editor of The WSJ Europe. He can be reached at jpressley@bloomberg.net or at:
Bloomberg News
International Press Center
Boulevard Charlemagne 1 / 28
B-1041 Brussels BELGIUM

DULY NOTED

The Book Standard and Nielsen BookScan announce “Book Summit & Bestseller Awards 2005,” to take place on September 22 at The Roosevelt Hotel, in NYC. Panel discussions will include “The State of the Book Industry: 2005 By The Numbers,” “The Big Debate: New Technologies Invade The Book World,” “Reclaiming Readership: How To Get In Front Of Tomorrow’s Book Buyers… Today,” and “The Retail Channel.” The day will end with The Bestseller Awards 2005, “the first-ever, Nielsen-data-powered Bestseller Awards Ceremony for books.”

The Bookseller has launched a site that offers profiles of “the top 100 UK publishing companies,” the first four of which can be downloaded for free. The report is called The Consumer Book Report UK – UK Publisher Trends, Growth and Analysis, and can be accessed at www.publishingUK.com.

The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) has established the Classroom Publishers Alliance (CPA), a special interest group within AEP’s government relations program, according to Charlene Gaynor, Executive Director of AEP. The goal of the alliance is to continue the agenda outlined by the Classroom Publishers Association, which was successful in lobbying government officials to establish and maintain a discounted postal rate for publishers of classroom magazines. www.edpress.org.

IN MEMORIAM

Friends and family gathered at the Century Club for a remembrance of Ruth Wilk Notkins Nathan — movie executive turned literary agent who died June 7th. Presided over by brother Max Wilk and husband (and long time PW contributor) Paul Nathan, and accompanied by a lusty rendition of Brush Up Your Shakespeare (from Kiss Me Kate) were publishing and motion picture vets such as Gene Young, Larry Hughes, David Brown, Roz Targ, Sue Pollock, Caron K and nephew David Wilk.

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Congratulations to Morgan Entrekin and Rachel Cobb on their nuptials.

As announced previously, Bill Shinker will join Penguin Putnam as SVP and Publisher of an as yet unnamed imprint, on Sept. 4. He was most recently at Free Press, where he had been Publisher from August 2000 to his resignation at the beginning of April.

Ken Wright, formerly at Holt Reference, has been named Editorial Director, Scholastic Reference replacing Wendy Barish, who has retired. Other Scholastic appointments: Spencer Humphrey, who joined Scholastic when they acquired the Barney publishing program, has been named VP, Director of Mass merchandise product reporting to Jean Feiwel. Ellie Berger, in addition to her current role as Book Group Cross Divisional Director, adds the title VP, Deputy Publisher, directing all licensing and media business relationships and product development in these areas. And Bernette Ford, founder and editorial director of Cartwheel, is branching out to develop an imprint of African American and Latino titles for the very young as Editorial Director of Special Projects.

In Norton’s publicity department, Marian Brown is filling in for Louise Brockett, who is on maternity leave until September. . . Patrick Reilly, the one-time publishing reporter at the WSJ, and subsequently at the pr megapower Robinson, Lehrer, Montgomery, has gone to Bertelsmann to work for Andreas Schmidt, head of ecommerce; meanwhile Kevin Goldman, also once at the WSJ, and subsequently SVP Communications for WalkerDigital, has gone to Bookspan as VP Communications. He will work out of the 1271 Ave. of Americas office, and report to Bill Gatti, SVP Human Resources. Speaking of WSJ, Dominick V. Anfuso has been named vice president, editorial director of the Free Press, S&S Source and Wall St. Journal Books, reporting to Martha Levin.

Dorchester has announced that George Sosson is the new President and Publisher, following Lisa Rasmussen’s departure earlier in the month. She may be reached at 917 886-2561. . . Thea Feldman, GVP and General Manager of the books division at Sesame Workshop, has left the company. She may be reached at 212 989-5330. . . And S&S’s Children’s Publishing has announced that in restructuring its paperback division, positions held by Nancy Pines, and by Ingrid van der Leeden, have been eliminated. Ellen Krieger has been promoted to the newly created position of VP Associate Publisher of paperback books, and will oversee Aladdin and Pulse. She will report to v-p and publisher Brenda Bowen. According to Kristina Peterson, President of the children’s publishing division, new editorial and marketing positions will be announced after ALA.

Speaking of children’s publishing, Willa Perlman has joined the Cheyenne Group, a consulting firm with headquarters in New York. She will work from her Rhode Island home. . . Steve Cohen, most recently CEO of Brainquest.com, is the latest addition to The Popular Group, the company recently launched by Jack Hoeft. Other recent hires include Jane Leventhal and David Lappin . . . Arlene Kriv has been named Director of Publicity and Advertising for Harcourt Trade Books. She was Director of Publicity for Basic Books. . . Rob Grover joins Four Walls Eight Windows as editor. He previously worked in television, and was an Associate Editor at Knopf.

VIRTUAL PEOPLE

Lucinda Karter (in the New York Office) and Nick Webb (in London) have left Rightscenter, though no announcements have been made.

JUNE DATES

Pat Schroeder will be honored by the UJA on June 6th at the Grand Hyatt. Contact Marcy Frank at 212 836-1448.

• The Licensing Show is back in town, June 11–14, at the Javits Center. Golden Books, Scholastic, and Hungry Minds are among those exhibiting. Call 800 331-5706 for more information about the show.

• The ALA Annual Convention is in San Francisco this year, June 14–20.

• Michael Cader’s next Live Lunch in NY on June 20 is a “Legal Lunch,” on the subjects of contracts, electronic licensing, and the complexities of copyright. Trident Media’s Robert Gottlieb and attorneys Ken Norwick (who represents then AAR) and Helene Godin are the speakers. To reserve, email michael@caderbooks.com.

DULY NOTED

Publisher presence at the Premium Incentive show was minimal — which presented a fine opportunity for the smaller ones who were there, such as Trafalgar Square, Kensington, and World Almanac — all of whom said business was booming. A possible indication of the downward trend in business generally, and books specifically, might have been seen at the booth Buyenlarge.com, a poster company run by Paris Pierce — 25% owned by B&N.com. They had been developing a very successful program with BN.com selling classic book jackets as posters or reduced and suitable for framing. This business has now been successfully transformed from one selling art to one selling chocolate. From Harry Potter to To Kill A Mockingbird, you can buy your chocolate bars suitably encased.

PARTIES

May, traditionally a busy pub party month, began with a signing and party at the Madison Avenue Bookstore, thrown by David Godine to honor William Zinsser, not for On Writing Well, but as the author of a book about American songwriters, Easy to Remember. May also marked the first time the UJA honored a German, Thomas Middelhof. The occasion was the annual Steven J. Ross dinner and there was a large crowd, though very few publishers. (The Entertainment, Media & Communications Division hosted this $1000 per ticket event, rather than the Publishing Division, whose tickets go for a relatively modest $600.) Although all the music industry luminaries were there, other than Peter Olson and some Random House execs, no other publishers were present. They’re undoubtedly saving their pennies for the June 6th dinner honoring AAP’s Pat Schroeder.

Otto Penzler and Herman Graf threw a party for his author, Joyce Carol Oates, at the Players Club on May 22. Guests included NY DA Robert Morthenau and wife, Lucinda Franks, Russell Banks, Edmund White, and Gloria Vanderbilt. The same evening DK Publishing and The New York Times celebrated the publication of Campaigns: A Century of Presidential Races, by Ted Widmer and Alan Brinkley, at the Times. And the Janklow & Nesbit Agency launched the BEA with a party at their offices on May 29 for international publishers, from Leonardo Mondadori to Shona Martyn of HC Australia to a substantial Japanese contingent who then got on their planes for Chicago.

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Congratulations to Three Rivers Press’s Becky Cabaza and Broadway’s Charlie Conrad on the birth of their first child, a boy, Carlos Patrick Conrad on 23rd May.

Congrats also to Norton’s Louise Brockett and husband Mark, on the birth of twin boys John Duley and Thomas Wadsworth on May 25.