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Job Moves: March 2, 2012
Managing editor at Samhain Lindsey Faber will take on the role of publisher beginning March 1, 2012. Faber has been with the company for five years.
Meredith Kaffel is joining DeFiore and Company as an agent. She has been at the Charlotee Sheedy Agency for six years.
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Authors on the Air March 1, 2012: Peter Kiernan, Lisa Lillien
Peter Kiernan will be on Imus in the Morning and MSNBC's The Dylan Ratigan Show for his book Becoming China's Bitch: And Nine More Catastrophes We Must Avoid Right Now (Turner, 978-1-61858-005-4).
Lisa Lillien, author of Hungry Girl Supermarket Survival: Aisle by Aisle, HG-Style (St. Martin's Griffin, 978-0312676735), will be on The Talk.
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Job Moves: March 1, 2012
Jessica Deutsch, marketing director, is leaving Coffee House Press at the end of this week. Tricia O'Reilly, currently their publicist, will take on the duties of interim marketing director.
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Authors on the Air February 29, 2012: Suvir Saran, Marc Gillinov and Steven Nissen
Suvir Saran will be on The Martha Stewart Show for Masala Farm: Stories and Recipes from an Uncommon Life in the Country (Chronicle, 9780811872331).
Marc Gillinov and Steven Nissen will be on Tavis Smiley for Heart 411: The Only Guide to Heart Health You'll Ever Need (Three Rivers Press, 978-0307719904).
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Job Moves: February 29, 2012
Random House Publishers Services Group has made the following promotions:
Chuck Errig, group sales director, and Todd Berman, director, client development, have been promoted to v-p.
Michelle Yung has been named imprint sales director from associate imprint sales director.
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Obituary: George Fisher
George Fisher, former v-p, director, adult mass merchandise sales for Random House, died on February 22 at the age of 60.
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Authors on the Air February 28, 2012: Jackie Collins
Jackie Collins will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for her novel Goddess of Vengeance (St. Martin's Griffin, 978-1250006172).
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Job Moves: February 28, 2012
Todd Presley is now the executive director of human resources, McEvoy Group at Chronicle Books. He was previously the director of human resources.
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Job Moves: February 27, 2012
Greg Mortimer will join Scribner in the newly created position of online marketing manager. He was formerly the marketing manager of trade paperbacks for Random House.
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Barney Rosset Remembered
Ask former colleagues about the late Barney Rosset, founder of Grove Press, and you’ll hear words like dynamic, passionate, freethinker, risk taker, and more than a little bit self-destructive.
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Authors on the Air February 24, 2012: Pico Iyer, Richard W. Walker
Pico Iyer, author of The Man Within My Head (Knopf, 978-0307267610), will be on Tavis Smiley.
Richard W. Walker, Jr., MD will discuss his book African-American Healthy: Tapping into the Remarkable Power of Vitamin D3 (Square One, 978-0757003615) the morning of Saturday, February 25 with the Rev. Al Sharpton on the nationally syndicated radio show "The Rev. Al Sharpton with Sharp Talk."Job Moves: February 24, 2012
Jessica Freeman-Slade has joined Clarkson Potter as an assistant editor. She was previously working on cookbooks for the Knopf group, where she served as the assistant managing editor.
Authors on the Air February 23, 2012: Peggielene Bartels
Peggielene Bartels, author of King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village (Doubleday, 978-0385534321), will be on Tavis Smiley.
Job Moves: February 23, 2012
Jen Linnan, formerly an associate agent at Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, has started her own agency, Linnan Literary Management LLC. The new agency will specialize in graphic works and illustration, in addition to select prose works in adult, YA, and middle-grade fiction and nonfiction.
Remembering Barney Rosset, Legendary Publisher
"Rosset was a brave man who won several key victories in the fight for artistic freedom in the United States," said Chris Finan, American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression president.
S&S Children's Makes Shifts in Marketing
The following moves were made at Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing: Lucille Rettino has been promoted to v-p, director of marketing. Elke Villa has been named associate marketing director.
Authors on the Air February 22, 2012: Bruce Bartlett, Fawzia Koofi
Bruce Bartlett, author of The Benefit and The Burden: Tax Reform-Why We Need It and What It Will Take (Simon & Schuster, 978-1451646191), will be on The Daily Show.
Fawzia Koofi, author of The Favored Daughter: One Woman's Fight to Lead Afghanistan Into the Future (Palgrave Macmillan, 978-0230120679), was on NPR's Morning Edition.
Job Moves: February 22, 2012
Kevin Callahan has been promoted to associate publisher of It Books.
At Quirk Books, John J. McGurk has been promoted to the position of director, digital & print production.
Authors on the Air February 21, 2012: Russ Feingold, Robert Kagan, Fred Willard
Russ Feingold, author of While America Sleeps: A Wake-up Call for the Post-9/11 Era (Random House, 978-0-307-95252-3), will be on The Daily Show.
Robert Kagan, author of The World America Made (Knopf, 978-0307961310), will be on The Colbert Report.
