Tag Archives: Flatiron Books

People Round Up, Early March, 2024

PEOPLE Co-Founders Madeline McIntosh, Nina von Moltke and Don Weisberg announced the launch of Authors Equity, a new collaborative book publisher.  McIntosh holds the title of CEO and Publisher, von Moltke is President and Weisberg is Senior Advisor. In addition Robin Desser has been named Editorial Advisor,  Carly Gorga is Chief Marketing Officer and Andrea…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid October 2023

PEOPLE At Wiley CEO Brain Napack has left the company after six years. Matthew Kissner, took over as interim CEO; he was previously group executive and board chair, and acted as interim CEO from May to December in 2017.    At Penguin Random House, Nicholas Latimer, VP and senior director of publicity and Victoria Wilson,…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early February 2022

PEOPLE Jamie Raab has become Publisher-at-Large for parent company Macmillan, stepping down from her previous role as President of Celadon Books. Imprint cofounder Deb Futter, previously SVP and Co-Publisher, has consequently been named President and Publisher. Elsewhere at Macmillan, Diane Dilluvio, formerly Associate Director at Wolters Kluwer, also joins the company as Senior Production Manager,…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-February 2021

PEOPLE David Wan will retire as CEO of Harvard Business Publishing this June, having led the publisher since 2002. SVP and Chief Product Innovation Officer Josh Macht will take over as Acting CEO until a permanent successor is found. Effective March 8, Mary Marotta will join Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group as SVP, Group Sales Director….Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-December 2020

PEOPLE At Grand Central, Colin Dickerman will join as VP, Editorial Director, Nonfiction on January 19. Most recently he was Executive Editor at Farrar, Straus & Giroux. As part of the Frankfurt Book Fair’s restructuring, the New York office will close at the end of 2020. As a result, VP, English-Language Markets Thomas Minkus will…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-October 2020

PEOPLE Liesa Abrams will join Random House Children’s on November 9 as VP, Editor-in-Chief for the new Labyrinth Road imprint, which is set to launch in 2022. She had been Editorial Director at Simon Pulse until earlier this year, when reorganization in the Simon & Schuster Children’s group shifted her to Executive Editor-at-Large. At Ballantine,…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early September 2020

PEOPLE Beginning October 19, Andy Bird will take over as CEO of Pearson. Current CEO John Fallon will continue in the position until then, at which point he will step down from the board and remain as an advisor for the remainder of the year. Kurt Mueller is joining Inkshares as COO. He was previously…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-June 2020

PEOPLE Jonathan Karp has been named President and CEO of Simon & Schuster, succeeding Carolyn Reidy, who died suddenly on May 12. Karp had been President and Publisher, Adult Publishing. As the result of reorganization at Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, Mara Anastas, VP and Publisher of Aladdin and Simon Pulse, will depart after over…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Early May 2020

PEOPLE Following the departure of Bruce Nichols from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Deb Brody has been named VP, Publisher of the adult trade division. Brody has been with HMH since 2016, when she joined as Editorial Director from her previous position as Executive Editor at William Morrow. Justin Schwartz, previously Executive Editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt,…Continue Reading

People Round-Up, Mid-April 2020

PEOPLE Bruce Nichols, longtime SVP and Publisher of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, is joining Little, Brown as SVP and Publisher on May 4. He replaces Reagan Arthur, who became Sonny Mehta’s successor at Knopf. Stephanie Reddaway joins as Publicist, working primarily on the Spark and Voracious imprints; she had been Associate Publicist for the Random House…Continue Reading