PEOPLE
Madeline McIntosh is stepping down as CEO of Penguin Random House US. At Random House Group, Angelin Adams, Editorial Director, Design & Culture, adds the title of Editorial Director, Potter Gift. She succeeds the recently-retired Lindley Boegehold. At Knopf, Quynh Do joins as Senior Editor. Most recently she was Senior Editor at Zando. Jessica Kastner Keene, formerly Publicist at Rowman & Littlefield, joins WaterBrook Multnomah as Publicity Manager. At Penguin Press, Jamie Lescht joins as Senior Publicist; she was previously Publicist at William Morrow.
Lyssa Keusch joins Grand Central as VP, Executive Editor. Previously she was Executive Editor at William Morrow.
At Ingram Library Services, Carolyn Morris returns as VP, succeeding Pamela Smith. Most recently she was Director of Content Solutions at SirsiDynix. William Daniel, formerly Chief Technology Officer at Intersoft Data Labs, joins Ingram Content Group as VP of Application Services.
Barbara Cohen joins International Literary Properties as VP, Legal and Business Affairs, North America. Most recently she was VP and General Counsel at Oxford University Press.
The board of directors for Coffee House Press have chosen consultant Linda Ewing as Interim Executive Director and will now begin a search for a permanent executive director and publisher.
Sarah Falter joins Morrow Group as Director of Publicity. She was previously Director of Publicity at HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Lindsey Kennedy, lately Assistant Director of Publicity at Random House, joins as Associate Director of Publicity. And Lara Baez, previously Communications Manager at Twitter, joins as Marketing and Publicity Manager.
At Scholastic, Rachel Schwartz has been named Director of Cross Channel Marketing. She was previously Director of Program and Product Marketing at Scholastic Book Fairs.
Lia Brown joins Kappa Publishing as Editorial Director; formerly she was Senior Executive Editor of the children’s division at Callisto Media.
At Tuttle Publishing, Laura J. Ferguson joins as Sales and Marketing Director. Previously she was Director of Special Sales at Abrams.
Sarah McEachern joins Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive Press as Rights Director. Formerly she was Senior Foreign Agent at Trident Media Group.
Kristen Luby, formerly Senior Marketing Manager, School & Library at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, joins Abrams as Associate Director, School & Library Marketing.
In agency news…Madeline Shellhouse, formerly International Rights Agent at Folio Literary Management, joins Ultra Literary as Foreign Rights Director. John Ash, lately of London’s PEW Literary, joins Creative Artists Agency as Literary Agent. At Curtis Brown, Alexandra Franklin joins as Associate Agent, Dramatic Rights; she was previously Associate Agent at Vicky Bijur Literary Agency. At KT Literary, Hannah Fergesen rejoins as Foreign Rights Manager. At the CAT Agency, Aliza R. Hoover joins as Associate Agent; she was previously Art Coordinator Associate at Candlewick Press. And in scouting news, Georgia Panitch joins KF Literary Scouting as International Literary Scout. She was previously International Scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associates.
James Melia will join Gallery as Executive Editor on March 6. Previously he was Executive Editor at Holt. Alison Hinchcliffe, lately Publicity Manager at William Morrow, joins Atria as Senior Publicity Manager.
Richard Narramore, previously Executive Editor at Wiley, joins Stanford University Press as Executive Editor.
At Zando, Sarah Ried, formerly Editor at HarperCollins, joins as Senior Editor.
At ReaderLink Distribution Services, Mary McGee, previously Lead Operations Specialist at Cepheid, joins as Senior Inventory Manager. Cyndee Pietrus joins as Manager of Supply Planning. Eduardo Munoz joins as Sales Support Coordinator. Amelia Meyer joins as Merchandise Presentation Specialist. And Arielle Amante joins as Assistant Product Manager.
Benny Sisson, lately Marketing Coordinator at HarperCollins Children’s, joins the University of Washington Press as Marketing Manager.
At Melville House, Yezanira Venecia joins as Editor. She was previously Assistant Editor at Soho Press.
Allison Hunter Hill, formerly Editor at Starry Forest Books, joins Nosy Crow‘s US team as Editor, based in Boston.
At Graywolf, Caelan Ernest Nardone joins as Publicist. Most recently they were Director of Publicity at Nightboat Books.
Yun Shen joins Open Road Integrated Media as Business and Growth Analyst.
At Holt, Micaela Carr joins as Associate Editor.
At Northwest Review, Meakin Armstrong joins as Editor-at-Large, acquiring two to four novellas a year. In the past he served as Senior Fiction Editor for Guernica Magazine.
PROMOTIONS
Emily Krump and Jessica Williams have both been promoted to VP, Editorial Director at William Morrow Fiction. Anna Montague has been named Editor at Dey Street.
At Astra Books for Young Readers, Juliana Lauletta becomes VP of Publishing, Susan Dobinick becomes Executive Editor, and Chelsea Abdullah moves up to Marketing Associate. Deborah Ghim is now Editor at Astra House, while Rola Harb moves up to Assistant Editor. And at Astra Publishing House, Liz Koehler becomes Production Supervisor and Albert Prendiz becomes Accounts Payable Associate.
Mark Bloomfield, VP of Sales and Marketing at Regnery, has been promoted to Associate Publisher of the history imprint.
At Scholastic, Jennifer Powell has been promoted to Senior Director of Rights & Co-Editions. Vicki Tisch has been promoted to Senior Director of Marketing Operations. Steve Alexandrov is now Director of Production, Trade Marketing. And Katie Willkens moves up to Assistant Managing Editor, Licensing.
At Melville House, Maya Bradford is now Director of Marketing and Publicity.
In agency news…Katie Shea Boutillier has been promoted to VP at Donald Maass Literary Agency, retaining her title as Rights Director. Jan Baumer is now VP at Folio Literary Management, where Chiara Panzeri has been promoted to International Rights Manager. Joanna MacKenzie moves up to Senior Literary Agent at Nelson Literary Agency. At Trident Media Group, Tess Weitzner has been promoted to Foreign Rights Agent. Nikki Groom has been promoted to Agent at SBR Agency. At Robin Straus Agency, Danielle Matta moves up to Junior Agent.
At Hay House, Anna Cooperberg has been promoted to Senior Editor.
At Pantheon, Rose Cronin-Jackman becomes Senior Publicist. Sydney Collins becomes Assistant Editor at Random House Group. At Penguin Random House Audio, Varak Baronian moves up to Art Rights Associate, and Desiree Johnson is now Assistant Editor for Listening Library, Audio Libros, and Audiobook Originals.
Selihah White is now Senior Publicist for Catapult, Counterpoint, and Soft Skull Press.
Michelle Betters moves up to Senior Publicist at Verso Books.
At Candlewick Press, Jackie Houton has been promoted to Senior Copyeditor and Proofreader.
Melissa Rechter is now Editor at Crooked Lane Books and Alcove Press. Rebecca Nelson moves up to Editorial and Production Associate at Crooked Lane.
DULY NOTED
Beginning this spring, DK will sell and distribute English-language titles for Rebel Girls worldwide.
Simon & Schuster now sells and distributes Papercutz worldwide.
Hachette Book Group will launch Phenomenal Media Books, led by Phenomenal Media founder and CEO Meena Harris. Titles will be published in collaboration with Grand Central and Little, Brown Children’s. Acquisitions and editorial will be made by Harris; Phenomenal Media head of content and entertainment Juliet Liu; Little, Brown Children’s VP and editorial director Farrin Jacobs (YA/children’s); and Grand Central VP and digital paperback publisher Beth deGuzman (adult).
Authors Emily Adrian and Alex Higley, along with literary agent Monika Woods, have launched a new indie press, Great Place Books. The press will publish three to four titles a year to start, in addition to offering writing classes.
This June, the mineditionUS imprint of Astra Books for Young Readers will receive a new name: Minerva.
At the Association of American Publishers, Julia Reidhead, chairman and president of W.W. Norton & Co., has been voted Chair of the Board for the 2023-2024 term. Brian Napack, president and CEO of Wiley, has been elected Vice Chair, and Jeremy North, managing director, books at Taylor & Francis, has been reelected to a fourth term as treasurer.
EVENTS
January 31-February 12
Kolkata Book Fair
Kolkata, India
February 9-19
Feria Internacional del Libro La Habana
Havana, Cuba
February 13-17
San Miguel Writers’ Conference and Literary Festival
San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
February 15-18
CAA Annual Conference
New York, NY
February 16
San Francisco Writers Conference
San Francisco, CA
February 16-19
Savannah Book Festival
Savannah, GA
February 17-19
Fan Expo Portland
Portland, OR
February 18
Amelia Island Authors’ Expo
Fernandina Beach, FL
February 18-20
Fan Expo Vancouver
Vancouver, BC
February 20-23
ABA Winter Institute
Seattle, WA
February 23-26
Vilnius International Book Fair
Vilnius, Lithuania
