PEOPLE At Harmony Books, Shannon Welch, formerly Executive Editor at Harper One, joins as VP and Editorial Director. At Penguin Random House Audio, Nicole McArdle, previously Assistant Director of Marketing at Portfolio, joins as Marketing Director and Camille Copeland joins as Associate Marketing Manager. At Rodale, Elysia Lang joins as Editor. Additionally, Denise DeGennaro, Random…Continue Reading
PEOPLE At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Millicent Bennett joins as Editorial Director. She had been Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing. Sarah Pelz joins as Executive Editor, having previously held that title at Atria. George Coe, former CEO and President of Baker & Taylor, will return to Brodart Co. as President and CEO. At Crown, Libby…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Judith Curr has left her position as President and Publisher of Atria after nineteen years with Simon & Schuster. A search will be conducted for her replacement; in the meantime, Peter Borland and Suzanne Donohue will oversee Atria’s editorial and publishing activities. Amid many changes at F+W since the departure of CEO Tom Beusse…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Liese Mayer is joining Bloomsbury on February 27 in the newly-created role of Editorial Director, Fiction. She has been working as Editor at Scribner. John Morgan is now Executive Editor at Imprint. He was previously Senior Producer at Melcher Media, Director of Digital Publishing at Penguin, and Creative Director at DC Comics. Bernd Leukert…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Walter Weintz has joined Guinness World Records as VP, Publishing Sales, Americas. He previously worked as Chief Sales Officer at Workman. David Young, former CEO of Orion and Hachette Book Group USA, will become Chairman of Canongate Books in January. He is taking over from Christopher Bland, who is retiring. Sienna Farris is joining…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Steve Wasserman will join Heyday Books as Publisher and Executive Director in July, succeeding Founder Malcolm Margolin, who retired at the end of 2015. Wasserman was previously Yale University Press Editor-at-Large and Los Angeles Times Book Review Editor. Heydey’s Editorial Director Gayle Wattawa will be Interim Publisher and Director of Nature and Environmental Publishing….Continue Reading
PEOPLE Miriam Parker joined HarperCollins’ Ecco imprint as Associate Publisher. She was previously Marketing Director at Little, Brown. Additionally at HarperCollins, Harper Paperback and Perennial Editorial Director Cal Morgan will leave his position at the end of this week after 16 years, and will be taking some time off. As posted earlier, Libby McGuire will step…Continue Reading
