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Authors on the Air April 17, 2012: Patricia Walker, Janet Davis, Mara Einstein, Ian Smith
Dance of the Electric Hummingbird (Rainbow Ridge 2011) author Patricia Walker will be on the "Mancow" nationally syndicated radio show Wednesday April 18th at 7:30am ET.
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Authors on the Air April 16, 2012: Tavis Smiley and Cornel West, Katie Pavlich
Phil Donahue will talk to Tavis Smiley and Dr. Cornel West about their book The Rich & the Rest of Us (SmileyBooks, 978-1401940638) on Tavis Talks.
Katie Pavlich, author of Fast and Furious: Barack Obama's Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-up (Regnery, 978-1-59698-321-2), will be on The O'Reilly Factor.
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Authors on the Air April 13, 2012: Piotr Naskrecki, Edward O. Wilson, Henry Petroski, Marcey Shapiro, Stephen W. Hines
NPR's Science Friday will have three authors on its program today: Piotr Naskrecki for his book Relics: Travels in Nature's Time Machine (University of Chicago Press, 978-0226568706), Edward O. Wilson for his book The Social Conquest of Earth (Liveright, 978-0871404138), and Henry Petroski for his book To Forgive Design: Understanding Failure (Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 978-0674065840).
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Alan Harvey To Direct Stanford University Press
Alan Harvey, SUP's deputy director and editor-in-chief, has been with the company since 2002, when he came from Cambridge University Press.
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Job Moves: April 13, 2012
Chris Barba will retire as executive v-p, sales for Hachette. She has been with the company for 33 years, and has worked with authors such as Nicholas Sparks, David Baldacci, Malcolm Gladwell, among many others.
Guinevere de la Mare has been promoted to senior community manager at Chronicle Books. She was formerly community manager.
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Authors on the Air April 12, 2012: Mara Einstein, David Treuer, Pat Cooper
Mara Einstein, author of Compassion, Inc.: How Corporate America Blurs the Line Between What We Buy, Who We Are, and Those We Help (University of California Press, 978-0-520-26652-0) will be on "The Diane Rehm Show" (NPR).
David Treuer will be on Tavis Talks for his book Rez Life: An Indian's Journey Through Reservation Life (Atlantic Monthly Press, 978-0802119711).
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Job Moves: April 12, 2012
Nicholas Courage will join Farrar, Straus & Giroux as online marketing manager on April 30, replacing Ryan Chapman. Courage was most recently with Picador, where he has been online marketing manager since 2009.
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Comings and Goings: April 11, 2012
Paul Dinas has left Adams Media to pursue other opportunities. He may be reached at dinas.paul@gmail.com.
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Authors on the Air April 11, 2012: Ian Smith, A.J. Jacobs
Ian Smith, author of The Truth About Men: The Secret Side of the Opposite Sex (St. Martin's Press, 1-250-00427-6), will be on The Talk tomorrow morning, April 12.
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Bethany House Author Finds Success With Small-Town Tour
Bethany House author Beverly Lewis' book tours focusing on small cities and towns in the rural Midwest are drawing large crowds.
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Nolan Named EIC, Associate Publisher of Penguin Books
Patrick Nolan has been named editor-in-chief and associate publisher of Penguin Books, reporting to Kathryn Court, effective immediately.
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Authors on the Air April 10, 2012: Jonathan Gottschall, Richard Hersh
Jonathan Gottschall, author of The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547391403), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
Richard Hersh, co-author of We're Losing Our Minds: Rethinking American Higher Education (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230339828), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Job Moves: April 10, 2012
John K. Dragoon has been appointed executive v-p and chief marketing officer for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, with a focus on education marketing. Dragoon has spent seven of the last 10 years as chief marketing officer and channel chief of software provider Novell.
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Job Moves: April 9, 2012
Paul Mueller-Breuhl has joined zuuka, publishers of iStoryTime, as creative director. He comes from Apple, where he was design lead, mobile commerce since 2010.
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Authors on the Air April 6, 2012: Ian Tattersall
Ian Tattersall, author of Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230108752), will be on NPR's Science Friday.
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Job Moves: April 6, 2012
Chris Lederer, previously at Open Road Integrated Media, has joined AlixPartners as a director in its media practice. He can be reached at clederer@alixpartners.com.
Elizabeth Yarborough is now an editorial assistant at Chronicle Books. She was previously a sales associate at Chronicle Books Union Street and Metreon store.
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Authors on the Air April 5, 2012: Jorge E. Rodriguez, Paul K. Campbell
Jorge E. Rodriguez, MD will be on The View tomorrow morning, April 6, for The Acid Reflux Solution: A Cookbook and Lifestyle Guide for Healing Heartburn Naturally (Ten Speed Press, 978-1-60774-227-2).
Paul K. Chappell will talk about his book Peaceful Revolution: How We Can Create the Future Needed for Humanity's Survival (Easton Studio Press, 978-1935212768) on Tavis Talks.
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Job Moves: April 5, 2012
Lidia Agraz has been named executive director of the Texas Book Festival. She previously served as a volunteer for education, arts and literacy programs, and has served as v-p of government relations and public affairs for Time Warner Cable in central Texas.
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Authors on the Air April 4, 2013: Jonathan Rieder
Jonathan Rieder, author of Gospel of Freedom (Bloomsbury, 978-1620400586), will be on Tavis Talks.
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