PublishersLunch
Publisher of the Golden Books Young Readers
Group Kate Klimo
is stepping down as of March 31, Random House Children's president and
publisher Chip Gibson announced internally on Friday. Klimo has worked at
Random House since 1984, and spearheaded the acquisition of Golden in 2001. She
will be director of creative development at Media Assets Management Associates,
where she "will continue turning our books into great TV shows."
(Klimo helped develop The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That! into a PBS
Kids show and "has six other shows based on our books in
development.") Gibson notes, "she is certainly a towering figure in
the world of publishing, and over the course of her 40-year career, Kate has
changed the face of children's books."
Editor-in-chief of Random House Books for
Young Readers Mallory
Loehr will add to her responsibilities as publishing director
of the Golden group on March 31, reporting to Gibson. She will manage both the
editorial and art departments for both groups.
Golden Books editor-in-chief Chris Angelilli will
be promoted to editor-in-chief, executive director, licensed publishing. As
part of his new duties he will also oversee Random House Children's new
partnership with Nickelodeon,
where it will be the television company's primary book publisher as of spring
2013.
In other personnel news, former publisher
at Rodale and Bloomsbury Karen
Rinaldi will
join Harper as svp, executive editor on April 16. Rinaldi will acquire up
to 24 titles per year as part of a new health and wellness line on subjects
like science, nature, sports, food, relationships and the environment. Rinaldi
joined Rodale from Bloomsbury in 2008, leaving the company in September 2011.
Writers House founder and chairman Al Zuckerman is
stepping down from his leadership position. President Amy Berkower will
take over as chairman and Simon
Lipskar will serve as president of the agency, which employs 43
people. Zuckerman will continue to represent his extensive client list, which
includes Ken Follett, Stephen Hawking, and Michael Lewis.
At Bloomsbury, Laura Keefe has been
promoted to director of digital & trade marketing for the adult group, and Jonathan Kroberger
has been promoted to associate publicist. For Bloomsbury Children's and Walker
Children's, Katy
Hershberger has been promoted to director of publicity.
Marion Duvert
will join les éditions du Seuil in May as editor of foreign fiction on May 2.
She spent the past five years as translation rights manager at Farrar, Straus
and Giroux.
Charles Harmon
will join Rowman & Littlefield as executive editor on April 9, working
across several imprints, including Scarecrow Press. In this role, he will focus
his efforts in library and information studies, archival science, museum
studies, and cultural heritage preservation. Previously Harmon spent the past
17 years at Neal-Schuman Publishers.
The World Almanac trade book line is
returning to Simon & Schuster for sales and distribution, starting with
their 2013 editions. S&S had distributed the line from 2006 to 2009 as
well.
Barnes & Noble's latest BN Recommends pick
is Jonah Lehrer's IMAGINE: How Creativity Works (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) - Photo right - Jonah Lehrer
Sentinel announced it has moved up Florida
senator Marco Rubio's
memoir AN AMERICAN SON from October to June 19. Publisher Adrian Zackheim told
POLITICO: "National interest in Senator Rubio keeps heating up and we
want the book out in the world as quickly as possible. It's important to the
Senator and to us that people hear his remarkable story, and that of his
family, directly from him."
BEA announced that singer-songwriter Neil Young will
appear at the Special Events Hall on Wednesday, June 6 at 12 PM to speak about
his upcoming memoir WAGING HEAVY PEACE (Blue Rider Press). Young will be in
conversation with an interviewer to be named later. In addition, Lunch corrects
a misspelling in Friday's dispatch: it is Chris Colfer who will emcee the
Wednesday author breakfast.
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