PEOPLE Helen Atsma, formerly Editorial Director of Fiction at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, joins Ecco as VP and Editorial Director. At Harlequin, Samantha MacVeigh, formerly Assistant Communications Manager at Kensington Publishing, joins as Publicist. At Abrams, Jessica Wiener, formerly Marketing Director at Henry Holt, joins as Senior Director of Marketing for Adult Books. Shannon Kelly, lately…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Anne Messitte, EVP at Knopf Doubleday and Vintage/Anchor, will depart the company in December “amid a company restructuring,” reports the AP. Suzanne Herz, EVP, Executive Director of Publishing at Doubleday, will expand her role to succeed Messitte as Publisher of Vintage/Anchor. At Penguin Books, Kathryn Court, who has served as President and Publisher since…Continue Reading
Every week, we recommend 5 publishing articles/blog posts that supplement the major news for the week. Whether data or industry commentary, we hope these 5 links will be a simple way to keep you in the know. Why should publishing companies build communities among authors and readers, and what benefits would those communities yield to the publisher?…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Director at Janklow & Nesbit Tina Bennett has joined William Morris Endeavor‘s literary division as a partner in the New York office. She was at J&N for seventeen years and joins Eric Simonoff, who left Janklow for WME in 2009. Perseus Books Group’s VP Corporate Strategy & Business Development Clare Peeters, has left the company to join…Continue Reading
