Job Moves: November 4, 2010

Piccadilly Journals, Gifts & Stationery has named Annette Sobel national sales manager. Sobel was most recently national accounts manager to the warehouse club customers and their distributors at National Book Network. Prior to NBN, she was a member of Baker & Taylor Marketing (formerly Advanced Marketing Services).

Job Moves: November 3, 2010

Lindsay Sagnette has been named senior editor at Crown Publishers, reporting to Molly Stern. Sagnette, who was most recently a senior editor at St. Martin's Press, will start at Crown on November 15. At SMP she acquired and edited literary fiction and nonfiction, such as William Ryan’s thriller trilogy, starting with The Holy Thief. Sagnette began her editorial career at Riverhead in 2000, later moving to Grove/Atlantic and Bloomsbury.

Job Moves: November 2, 2010

Glen Tomaszewski has been named v-p, chief accounting officer and controller at Borders Group. Tomaszewski has been with Borders for 12 years and was most recently interim CFO. Tomaszewsk's salary will be $250,000 and he will receive a special bonus of $100,000, payable on February 18, 2011.

Job Moves: October 28, 2010

Alena Graedon has been named manager of membership and literary awards the Pen American Center. Graedon was most recently an editorial assistant at Knopf, and was also an executive assistant to PEN’s previous executive director, Michael Roberts.

Job Moves: October 26, 2010

Michael Szczerban has been promoted to associate editor at Simon & Schuster's flagship imprint. Szczerban started at Simon & Schuster in 2007 and became the imprint’s assistant managing editor before joining its editorial department in 2009. He began his publishing career at Carnegie Mellon University Press, and also worked as a software architect, web designer, and research programmer.

Schneider to Retire from Random House

Carol Schneider, who has served in a range of publicity and public relations roles for Random House over the last 32 years, will retire from the company at the end of November. The announcement was made early Monday afternoon by Gina Centrello, president and publisher of the Random House Publishing Group, the last in a string of RH executives who worked with Schneider.

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Job Moves: October 21, 2010

Nicole Dewey is joining Little, Brown as executive director of publicity on November 15. Dewey was most recently executive director at Henry Holt, where she managed a department and worked with authors including Hilary Mantel, Barbara Ehrenreich, and Atul Gawande.

Meacham Named Executive Editor at Random House

Pulitzer-winning author and former Newsweek editor Jon Meacham has been named executive v-p and executive editor of Random House Publishing Group. Meacham, a longtime RH author who won the Pulitzer for American Lion, will report to RHPG president and publisher Gina Centrello.

Job Moves: October 20, 2010

Merriam-Webster has appointed Caryl Schivley to the position of v-p and chief financial officer/chief administrative officer. She will be responsible for all financial aspects of the company and will provide leadership and coordination in the business planning and budgeting activities of the company.

Comings and Goings: October 20, 2010

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Susan Knopf, formerly senior v-p of marketing and new business at Parachute Publishing, has started a soon-to-be officially announced new business in which she will be working with authors, publishers and brands as an editor, packager, marketer, and consultant. At Parachute Knopf created the award-winning John Deere for Kids publishing and merchandise program, and also oversaw bestselling author R.L. Stine's publicity. She can now be reached at susanknopf04@yahoo.com.

Job Moves: October 19, 2010

Erika Greber has been named assistant marketing manager in the Random House Publishing Group, working for Random House, Spiegel & Grau, Dial Press, and The Modern Library. Greber was marketing associate at the Random House Audio group.

Chris Boot Named Executive Director at Aperture

Chris Boot, a former editorial director of Phaidon Press and a former director of the New York and London offices of Magnum, the international photo cooperative, has been named executive director of the Aperture Foundation, the Manhattan-based photographic resource center and publishing house. Boot's appointment will become effective in January 2011 and he succeeds Juan Garcia de Oteyza, who has been executive director of Aperture for the last two years.

Job Moves: October 19, 2010

Ryan Doherty has joined Random House Trade Paperbacks as an editor reporting to svp, publisher Jane von Mehren. Doherty has been at Ballantine for four years, working on, among other things, Web site- and blog-inspired books including F My Life, FU Penguin, and the forthcoming Whiter Shades of Pale.

Henry Named CFO at Borders

After some speculation over who would fill the job of chief financial officer, Borders has named an executive with experience in the Las Vegas gaming industry, Scott Henry, to the post. Borders has been without a permanent CFO since Mark Bierly left this summer.

Job Moves: October 18, 2010

Barnes & Noble has appointed Gene DeFelice as v-p, general counsel & corporate secretary. DeFelice will be responsible for all legal matters regarding Barnes & Noble, Inc., and its subsidiaries, including management of outside counsel.

Job Moves: October 15, 2010

David Davies has been named chief executive officer at Phaidon Press. Davies, who will be based in Phaidon's London office and start at the company on November 29, is currently managing director at Bauer Media.

Job Moves: October 14, 2010

Doug Beck has been named v-p of curriculum sales at Recorded Books. Beck will report directly to Scott Williams, Recorded Books' president.

Julie Just Moves to Agent Side, Joins Janklow & Nesbit

The New York Times just lost its children's books editor to the agenting world. Julie Just has joined Janklow & Nesbit as an agent. Just, who was deputy editor of the New York Times Book Review before taking the job as children's books editor at the paper in 2005, will start at Janklow & Nesbit in November.

Job Moves: October 13, 2010

Heidi Metcalfe has been named associate director of publicity at It Books; she will start there on October 18. She began her career in publishing with Penguin Group U.S.A. in 2000 as publicity assistant, and joined The Ford Group in San Diego, Calif., in 2002. She was most recently a senior publicity manager at Free Press, where she's been since 2006.