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Job Moves: April 2, 2012
Gabrielle Gantz will join Picador April 9 as senior publicist. She was most recently a publicist at Viking/Penguin.
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Authors on the Air March 30, 2012: Eric Kandel, Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry
The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind and Brain (Random House, 978-1400068715) author Eric Kandel will be on NPR's Science Friday.
Yogi Berra and Ron Guidry will discuss Driving Mr. Yogi: Yogi Berra, Ron Guidry, and Baseball's Greatest Gift (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780547746722) on NPR's Weekend Edition on Saturday, March 31.
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Job Moves: March 30, 2012
Kate Travers will join Workman as director, digital business development. She was previously with F+W Media.
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Comings & Goings: March 30, 2012
Ron Watson is retiring after 21 years at Ingram Book Group, where he has been lead buyer for the University Press Group.
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Authors on the Air March 29, 2012: Robert Kanigel, Rachel Maddow
Robert Kanigel, author of On an Irish Island (Knopf, 978-0307269591), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
Rachel Maddow, author of Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power (Crown, 978-0307460981), will be on The Daily Show.
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Job Moves: March 29, 2012
Daisy Hutton has been promoted to fiction publisher, replacing Allen Arnold, who started the fiction division eight years ago. Hutton has been with Thomas Nelson for three years.
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Authors on the Air March 28, 2012: Byron Dorgan, Ellen Ullman, Brian Miller and Mike Lapham
Former Senator Byron Dorgan will be on tomorrow's Morning Joe for his book Blowout (Forge, 0-7653-2737-6).
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Job Moves: March 28, 2012
Tarcher/Penguin has made the following promotions:
Mitch Horowitz is now editor-in-chief and v-p.
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Authors on the Air March 27, 2012: Maria Goodavage, Alain de Botton
Maria Goodavage will be on The Daily Show to talk about her book Soldier Dogs: The Untold Story of America's Canine Heroes (Dutton Adult, 978-0525952787).
Alain de Botton, author of Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion (Pantheon, 978-0307379108), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Job Moves: March 27, 2012
Alexis Watts has been hired as a marketing assistant for Chronicle Books. Most recently, she was an interim junior account executive at Colman Getty Consultancy.
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Authors on the Air March 26, 2012: The Buried Life, Sean Parnell
Jonnie Penn, Dave Lingwood, Duncan Penn, Ben Nemtin—collectively known as The Buried Life—appeared on NBC’s Today to promote their book, What Do You Want to Do Before You Die? (Artisan Books, 978-1-57965-476-4).
Sean Parnell, author of Outlaw Platoon: Heroes, Renegades, Infidels, and the Brotherhood of War in Afghanistan (HarperCollins, 9780062066398), will be on Tavis Talks.
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Job Moves: March 26, 2012
Nicholas Sinisi will join Midpoint Trade Books as a national accounts manager. He was formely a buyer at Barnes & Noble.
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Authors on the Air March 23, 2012: Neil deGrasse Tyson
Neil deGrasse Tyson, author of Space Chronicles: Facing the Ultimate Frontier (W.W. Norton & Company, 978-0393082104), will be on Tavis Smiley.
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Job Moves: March 23, 2012
Amanda Fessler, assistant director at PubWest, will leave her position on April 30 for a job at Johnson and Hunter as publishing consultant, in addition to her role as co-owner of American Traveler Press. She has been with PubWest for almost six years, rising from administrative assistant to administrative director.
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Rucci Named VP, E-I-C of Simon & Schuster
Marysue Rucci, who has been v-p and editorial director of Penguin's Putnam imprint, has been named v-p and editor-in-chief of Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint.
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Authors on the Air March 22, 2012: R.J. Palacio, Jonah Lehrer, Louis Begley
Wonder (Knopf Books for Young Readers, 978-0375869020) author R.J. Palacio was on NPR's Morning Edition.
Jonah Lehrer will talk about Imagine: How Creativity Works (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547386072) on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Job Moves: March 22, 2012
Elizabeth Mazer has been promoted to associate editor of Love Inspired at Harlequin. Mazer joined Harlequin in 2007 as an editorial assistant.
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Job Moves: March 21, 2012
Matt Harper has been promoted to executive editor for the creative development team at HarperCollins. He has been with the company for six years.
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Authors on the Air March 21, 2012: Jeanette Winterson
Jeanette Winterson, author of Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? (Grove Press, 978-0802120106), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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