PEOPLE At Penguin Random House, SVP, Director of Publishing Operations Sue Malone-Barber will retire at the end of the year. Felicia Frazier, SVP, Children’s and Educational Sales, is departing to launch a new venture, to be announced. At Tarcher Perigee, Editorial Director Sara Carder has departed and can be reached at sarakatecarder@gmail.com. Jordan Rodman, previously…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Janet Rasche rejoins Penguin Random House as SVP and Director of Publishing Support. She had been VP, Operations Planning at Macmillan. Chelsea Vaughn is leaving her position as VP and Director of Publishing Operations, Business Process, and Support on September 30. Hal Hlavinka rejoins as Manager, Account Marketing after working as Event Director for…Continue Reading
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 As a consequence of October’s merger of Crown Publishing Group and Random House, Molly Stern, SVP and Publisher, is departing her position. EVP and Deputy Publisher David Drake will replace her. Gillian Blake, previously Editor-in-Chief at Henry Holt, will join as SVP and Editor-in-Chief of Crown Trade. Elsewhere in the company…Katie Ziga will move…Continue Reading
PEOPLE Mark Allin has resigned as President and CEO of John Wiley and Sons for family reasons, effective immediately. Chairman of the Board Matthew Kissner has been named interim CEO, and a search for a permanent successor has begun. Karen Kosztolnyik, formerly Executive Editor at Grand Central Publishing, returns to the Hachette division as Vice…Continue Reading
