Hachette
Book Group has hired Wibke
Grütjen as svp and chief marketing officer, starting March 25
and reporting to ceo Michael Pietsch. Grütjen will lead the marketing strategy
team, and joins the management board. She has been vp of digital marketing at
Macmillan since 2010. Alyson
Forbes, who had been leading marketing strategy on an interim
basis (following the departure of Heather Fain) has been promoted to vp,
executive director of marketing strategy.
After co-locating
in mid-2017 with plans to "work very closely together" without
actually merging, Lucas
Alexander Whitley and TV and digital agency Factual Management
have now taken the next step. They have formally combined to create The Soho Agency.
LAW's Philippa Milnes-Smith serves
as managing director of the new agency.
Todd Berman
moves from Penguin Random House Publisher Services over to the Random House
Sales Group, as vp, imprint sales director responsible for Crown Trade, Crown
Forum, Currency, WaterBrook, Multnomah, Image, and Convergent. VP, group sales
director Christine Edwards imprint sales director Maren McCamley will continue
to be responsible for Clarkson Potter, Ten Speed Press, Harmony, and Rodale
Books, with the former having additional oversight for Penguin Random House
Audio sales.
At Catapult, Soft Skull Press, and Counterpoint Press, associate editor Kendall Storey
is now foreign rights manager as well, as the lines move foreign rights
in-house.
Charlotte Lyman
has joined Page Street Publishing as publicist. She was previously digital
marketing specialist at Chelsea Green Publishing.
Tayari Jones
will serve as Author Ambassador for Independent Bookstore Day, on Saturday,
April 27.
Donald Keene,
96, "whose translations of Japanese literature into English and prodigious
academic output helped define the study of the subject and made him a celebrity
in Japan," died
on Sunday in Tokyo
Tuesday, February 26, 2019
Saturday, February 23, 2019
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Publishers Lunch
Megan Harley has been named
marketing manager at Algonquin Children's. Sarah Alpert has been promoted to associate
editor, now acquiring middle-grade and young adult fiction and non-fiction and
graphic novels.
At Chronicle Books, Allison Weiner has
been promoted to design manager, art; Lisa
Bach to director of special sales. Vanessa Navarrete to
sales manager, independent specialty; Emily
Malter to sales coordinator, independent specialty; and Neil Egan to design
manager, entertainment.
Awards
The London Book Fair will present their Lifetime Achievement Award to Dorotea Bromberg of Sweden's Brombergs, which she co-founded alongside her father Adam in 1975.
Bookselling
Inkwood Books in Tampa, FL will close on March 31. Stefani Beddingfield, who has owned the bookstore since 2013, said she hoped the opening of restaurants and businesses in the area would help, but the store never drew foot traffic. "I think the location could be great, but it's not there yet, and I just ran out of the finances to hang on," she said.
Smyrna, DE's Acorn Books is closing after seven years of operation. Co-owner Ginny Jewell said, "We have a great group of people who routinely shop here, it’s just that it’s not a big enough market."
The London Book Fair will present their Lifetime Achievement Award to Dorotea Bromberg of Sweden's Brombergs, which she co-founded alongside her father Adam in 1975.
Bookselling
Inkwood Books in Tampa, FL will close on March 31. Stefani Beddingfield, who has owned the bookstore since 2013, said she hoped the opening of restaurants and businesses in the area would help, but the store never drew foot traffic. "I think the location could be great, but it's not there yet, and I just ran out of the finances to hang on," she said.
Smyrna, DE's Acorn Books is closing after seven years of operation. Co-owner Ginny Jewell said, "We have a great group of people who routinely shop here, it’s just that it’s not a big enough market."
Publishers Lunch
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Friday, February 22, 2019
Publishers Lunch
Rebecca Gyllenhaal has been promoted to assistant
editor at Quirk Books.
Heather Morris has been promoted to associate art director, adult nonfiction at Sourcebooks.
Allan MacDougall, 71, co-founder and former ceo of Raincoast Books, Canada's largest domestically-owned distributor, died following a long battle with dementia. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.
Leonora Monnerat has been promoted to managing director for HarperCollins Brasil, overseeing all operations within the company.
Plagiarism Files
Brazilian romance author Cristiane Serruya has pulled her book Royal Love from bookselling sites after being accused of plagiarism, first by The Duchess War author Courtney Milan, and then by numerous readers on Twitter who found Serruya had plagiarized other sources as well. Serruya blamed the stolen work on a ghostwriter she hired from the site Fiverr.com, and has taken down all the work she produced with that writer.
Heather Morris has been promoted to associate art director, adult nonfiction at Sourcebooks.
Allan MacDougall, 71, co-founder and former ceo of Raincoast Books, Canada's largest domestically-owned distributor, died following a long battle with dementia. A celebration of his life will be held at a later date.
Leonora Monnerat has been promoted to managing director for HarperCollins Brasil, overseeing all operations within the company.
Plagiarism Files
Brazilian romance author Cristiane Serruya has pulled her book Royal Love from bookselling sites after being accused of plagiarism, first by The Duchess War author Courtney Milan, and then by numerous readers on Twitter who found Serruya had plagiarized other sources as well. Serruya blamed the stolen work on a ghostwriter she hired from the site Fiverr.com, and has taken down all the work she produced with that writer.
Thursday, February 21, 2019
Auckland Arts Festival
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