Job Moves: October 12, 2010

Y.S.Chi has been elected the new president of the International Publishers Association. Chi will continue to serve as vice chairman and CEO of Elsevier Science & Technology, and is also a member of the AAP Board of Directors. He will serve a renewable two-year term as IPA president beginning January 1, 2011.

People: Week of 10/11/10

Memorial Planned for Les Pockell

A memorial will be held next week for Les Pockell, former v-p and associate publisher of Grand Central Publishing, who died of cancer in July. The memorial will take place at the Proshansky Auditorium at the CUNY Graduate Center on October 12 at 5:00 PM. The auditorium is located at 365 Fifth Avenue in New York City. A reception will follow.

Job Moves: October 7, 2010

City Lights Publishers has hired Alyson Sinclair as publicity and marketing associate. Sinclair previously worked in the publicity department of Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

Job Moves: October 6, 2010

Children's publishing industry veteran Barbara Marcus has joined Open Road Integrated Media as an adviser, and will help lead the company's entry into the children's market. She will also help further Open Road's international business development and consult on general strategic issues.

Job Moves: October 5, 2010

Martin Literary Management has hired Kate Folkers as adult fiction literary agent. Folkers, who lives in Seattle, previously worked in publishing in Southern California and before that, for 15 years in New York, for Farrar, Straus & Giroux; Harcourt; Abbeville Press; and HarperCollins.

Job Moves: October 4, 2010

Deborah E. Wiley will retire from her role as senior v-p, corporate communications of John Wiley & Sons at the end of December. She will continue to serve as chairman of the Wiley Foundation. Susan Spilka will succeed her as v-p, corporate communications, effective January 1, 2011.

People: Week of 10/4/10

Memorials Set for Ashmead, Cody

The dates for memorial services for two well-known publishing figures, Larry Ashmead and Pat Cody, have been announced.

Job Moves: October 1, 2010

Getty Publications has appointed Rob Flynn as acting editor-in-chief. Flynn has been Getty’s sales and marketing manager since 2005 and for two years before that was the press’s sales manager.

Job Moves: September 30, 2010

Literary agency Anne McDermid & Associates Ltd. has appointed two directors to its board. The first is Martha Magor Webb, who has been with the company since 2005, representing fiction and nonfiction writers.

Leonard Named GLIBA Executive Director

Deborah Leonard has been named executive director of the Great Lakes Independent Booksellers Association, succeeding Jim Dana, who is stepping down October 15. Leonard officially starts October 4 and will be at the fall trade show that starts October 8.

Comings and Goings: September 29, 2010

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Ann Forstenze, formerly at Scholastic, is now handling special sales part-time for the Overlook Press. She is also handling rights and special sales for Star Bright Books. She can be reached at Forstenz@aol.com.

Abrams and Harper Media Beef Up Digital Staffs

Abrams and Harper Media have both made personnel changes to their digital divisions, marking increased efforts to move into the e-book space. Abrams has hired Lindy Humphreys, formerly of Wiley and Chronicle Books, to take on the newly created position of director of digital assets and publishing technology.

Job Moves: September 28, 2010

Media Source, Inc., yesterday announced Ian Singer is taking over as publisher of School Library Journal, Library Journal, The Horn Book Magazine, and The Horn Book Guide. Singer joined Media Source in 2010 as v-p, content and business development.

Job Moves: September 27, 2010

Former Houghton Mifflin Houghton publicist Emer Flounders has moved to Simon & Schuster, where he starts today as a senior publicist. Flounders was at HMH for five years.

Bellevue Literary Press Promotes Two, Hires One

Bellevue Literary Press has made some title changes and a staff addition. Erika Goldman is now publisher and editorial director (she was editorial director); Leslie Hodgkins is now associate editor (he was assistant editor); and Caroline Marris has joined the house as editorial assistant.

Job Moves: September 24, 2010

Dystel & Goderich Literary Management has added two agents: John Rudolph and Stephanie DeVita. Rudolph was most recently executive editor at G.P. Putnam's Sons, where he oversaw books in the children's, middle grade, and young adult categories.

Schultz New 'PW' Southern Correspondent

Former Publishers Weekly reviews editor Marc Schultz has been named the magazine's southern correspondent, beginning Sept. 27. Now living in Atlanta, Schultz will report on news and developments taking place in the southeast and south-central regions. A graduate of Vanderbilt in Nashville, Schultz can be reached at mschultz@publishersweekly.com; phone number is 678-478-0304.

Job Moves: September 23, 2010

Andrew Pate has been named director of digital and program sales at Edwards Brothers. Hiring Pate in the newly-created position is part of Edwards Brothers' continuing push into the short-run offset, digital, and print-on-demand book and journal manufacturing segment.