Tag Archives: Rockport Publishers

People Round-Up, Mid-August 2021

PEOPLE At Scribner, Marysue Rucci will serve as VP, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of a new imprint, Marysue Rucci Books. She previously worked as VP and Editor-in-Chief of Simon & Schuster. Tony Lutkus joins Diamond Book Distributors as President. He was most recently Senior Director, Sales & Marketing for Penguin Random House. At Andrews McMeel Publishing,…Continue Reading

Book View, November 2004

People The West Coast is in the news: Kirsty Melville, previously Publisher of Ten Speed Press, has become Publisher of the new book division of University Games. The new Publisher of Ten Speed is Lorena Jones. … Kevan Lyon, EVP for Wholesale Merchandising/Distribution (including PGW) at AMS, has left the company. Her duties were being…Continue Reading

‘Aggressive Whitetail Hunting’? You Bet.

When F+W Publications mines an enthusiast vein, it goes deep. No retailable nugget of esoterica, it seems, is too recondite for the Cincinnati-headquartered magazine, book, and book club empire, which publishes such über-niche offerings as Aggressive Whitetail Hunting and Raw Edge Appliqué. It operates Camp Memory Makers, the weekend scrapbooking retreat, and The Fantasy Football…Continue Reading