PEOPLE At Hachette Book Group, Diana Venitmiglia has joined Balance as executive editor, reporting to publisher Nana Twumasi. She was previously at Sounds True. Lauren Roberts joins Little, Brown, as senior publicity manager. She was most recently at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (FSG). Mo Crist will join Bloomsbury as an Editor on Bloomsbury’s Adult…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Penguin Random House, Anna Paustenbach will join Avery Publishing as executive editor on April 1st. She was previously executive editor at Harper One. Jen Schwabinger, VP and director, sales development is departing after 40 years with the company. Valerie Van Delft, SVP of logistics, will retire this August. Alison Martin is named SVP of…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Bloomsbury Publishing has appointed Sabrina McCarthy as president of Bloomsbury US, effective in early April. McCarthy will report to CEO Nigel Newton and also sit on Bloomsbury’s global executive committee. Previously, she was the VP and general manager of Ingram Publisher Services. See Promotions, below, for changes at Ingram. Senior editor Daniel Loedel is…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Seth Dobbs, CTO at Bounteous since 2004, has been named CEO of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the leader for technical development of the World Wide Web. He will start November 13th. Will Schwitzer has been named CEO at scholarly publishing platform, Silverchair. Thane Kerner has stepped down as CEO and has…Continue Reading
PEOPLE The National Coalition Against Censorship has named Lee Rowland, currently policy director at the New York Civil Liberties Union, to replace the retiring Christopher Finan as its executive director. At Penguin Young Readers, VP, executive director, art & design Deborah Kaplan will retire in September. She has been at PYR for 31 years and…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Sasha Quinton has been named EVP and president of Scholastic’s School Reading Events, the newly formed division that combines the book fairs and book clubs businesses. Emily Graff has joined Simon Element/Marysue Rucci Books as executive editor. She was previously senior editor at HarperCollins. Onalee Duane has joined as a demand planning analyst, backlist…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Simon & Schuster announced that former executive Dawn Davis will return to the publishing house as senior v-p and publisher of 37 Ink and executive editor of the S&S trade imprint. Davis moves to S&S from Condé Nast, where since 2020 she has been editor-in-chief of Bon Appétit and Epicurious. At Scribner, Kassandra Rhoads…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Open Road Integrated Media, Robert Zaffiris has been named CFO/COO, succeeding Charles Gallagher. Zaffiris was previously DFO/COO, Consumer and Technology Group at HarperCollins. ReedPop President Lance Festerman is leaving the company. He was a former director of BookExpo America and New York Comic Con. At Macmillan, joins as VP of Strategy and Investments….Continue Reading
PEOPLE Nina von Moltke, President and Director of Strategic Development at Penguin Random House, is leaving the company in May. In other PRH news Marissa Secreto joins Penguin Random House Audio as Marketing Associate. At Random House Children’s, Isabelle Snyder joins as Junior Designer, Brand and Licensed. At HarperCollins, SVP, International Sales David Wolfson has…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Michael Jacobs, President and CEO of Abrams, will step down from that role on November 28, to be succeeded by Mary McAveney. Jacobs will become executive chair of the board and serve in an advisory capacity during the transition. McAveney has been working as Chief Revenue Officer and Chief Marketing Officer at Open Road…Continue Reading
