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Authors on the Air August 4, 2011: Charles Lachman, Ashley Judd
Charles Lachman will be on the Leonard Lopate Show to talk about his new book, A Secret Life: The Lies & Scandals of President Grover Cleveland (Skyhorse, 978-1-61608-275-8).
Ashley Judd will talk to Tavis Smiley about her new memoir, All That is Bitter and Sweet (Ballantine Books, 978-0345523617).
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Authors on the Air August 3, 2011: Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry, Anne Beattie, Robert Wittman
Jeffrey Long and Paul Perry will be on Nightline for Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences (HarperOne, 978-0061452574).
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Job Moves: August 3, 2011
Lerner Publishing Group has announced Jackie Harvey as its new national educational sales director. Harvey recently oversaw literacy programs as a product and marketing manager in the K–12 school division of Pearson.
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Job Moves: August 2, 2011
Simon & Schuster has promoted Julia Prosser to assistant director of publicity and Kelly Welsh to senior publicity manager.
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Authors on the Air August 2, 2011: Oliver Pötzsch, Ronald Kessler
Oliver Pötzsch will be on the Leonard Lopate Show for his novel The Hangman's Daughter (Mariner, 978-0547745015).
Ronald Kessler was on NPR's Morning Report for his book The Secrets of the FBI (Crown, 978-0307719690).
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Two 'L.A. Times' Columns Move to 'Los Angeles Review of Books'
Two Los Angeles Times columnists, Richard Rayner and Susan Salter Reynolds, are moving their columns to the Los Angeles Review of Books.
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Dickerman Named Executive Editor at Penguin Press
Colin Dickerman has been named editor-in-chief of The Penguin Press, effective September 6.
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DiPreta Leaves It Books for Random House
After the recent news that Carrie Kania was leaving her pop culture imprint at HarperCollins, It Books, to become an agent, Mauro DiPreta has made it public that he is also leaving the imprint.
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Authors on the Air August 1, 2011: Wayne Koestenbaum, Bill Turnbull, Laurie Puhn, Mike Lee
Wayne Koestenbaum will be on Talk of the Nation to discuss Humiliation (Picador, 978-0312429225).
Bill Turnbull, author of Confessions of a Bad Beekeeper: What No To Do When Keeping Bees (with Apologies to my Own) (The Experiment, 978-1615190324), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC.
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Job Moves: August 1, 2011
Caitlin McCaskey has been promoted from assistant manager to manager at HarperCollins Speakers Bureau, and Wade Lucas has been promoted from assistant to associate.
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Authors on the Air July 29, 2011: Rob Dunn
Rob Dunn, author of The Wild Life of Our Bodies: Predators, Parasites, and Partners That Shape Who We Are Today (Harper, 978-0061806483) will be on NPR Science Friday.
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Comings and Goings: July 29, 2011
Sumiya Nowshin, former associate national account manager at Random House Children's Books can be reached at sumiya213@gmail.com.
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Morgan Takes Over It Books
Cal Morgan will take over HarperCollins's It Books imprint as senior v-p and publisher. The position is being vacated by Carrie Kania who announced earlier this week that she is leaving HC to become an agent.
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Lennertz to Head World Book Night U.S.
Current HarperCollins v-p, retail marketing Carl Lennertz has been named chief executive of the newly formed U.S. arm of World Book Night. Launched last year in the U.K., WBN organizers hope to give away 1 million books when the second annual event takes place April 23. Lennertz joins WBN Sept. 1.
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RH Creates Direct-to-Consumer Marketing Role
Random House has created a new position dedicated to direct-to-consumer marketing, naming Melissa Possick director of marketing partnerships.
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Authors on the Air July 28, 2011: Peter Tomsen, Ben Mezrich
Peter Tomsen, author of The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers (PublicAffairs, 978-1586487638) will be on The Daily Show.
The Leonard Lopate Show will have the author of Sex on the Moon: The Amazing Story Behind the Most Audacious Heist in History (Doubleday, 978-0385533928), Ben Mezrich.
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Job Moves: July 28, 2011
Katie O’Callaghan has joined the Harper marketing team as associate director, marketing. O'Callaghan will work on both fiction and nonfiction campaigns across all of the Harper imprints including Harper, Harper Business, and Broadside Books. She was most recently the senior marketing manager at Ballantine Bantam Dell.
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Authors on the Air July 27, 2011: Larry King, Suketu Mehta
Larry King will be on Piers Morgan to talk about his new book Truth Be Told: Off the Record about Favorite Guests, Memorable Moments, Funniest Jokes, and a Half Century of Asking Questions (Weinstein Books, 978-1602861305).
Suketu Mehta, author of Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found (Vintage, 978-0375703409) will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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Job Moves: July 27, 2011
OverDrive has announced that Brian Gurewitz, formerly president of library sales for Books on Tape, a division of Random House, Inc., has joined its team as director of content sales.
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Obituary: Michael Morris, Children's Publisher, Dies at 69
Michael Morris, the children’s book packager and founder of Victoria House Publishing and Joshua Morris Publishing, died Saturday, July 16, from complications due to cancer. He was 69.
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