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Job Moves: Thursday, May 6
Courtney Young has been promoted to editor for the Portfolio, Sentinel, and Current imprints at Penguin. Young joined Portfolio as an editorial assistant in 2006, after a two-year stint as a technical writer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Todd Martinez has been named sales & marketing coordinator at Image Comics. Martinez has been the manager of the store Comic Relief--winner of one of the first three Will Eisner Spirit of Comics Retailer Awards--in Berkeley, Calif., for the last 14 years.
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People: May 6
There are a number of promotions and new hires this week. Kathy Dawson was promoted to associate publisher and editorial director at Dial; at Scholastic, Stacy Lellos is now v-p, trade marketing, and Rachel Coun has been promoted to executive director, hardcover marketing; Geof Smith was made executive editor at Random House Children's Books; and Alexandra Penfold has been promoted to editor for the Paula Wiseman imprint at Simon and Schuster.
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Authors on the Air: Queen Latifah; Victoria Rowell; 'Never Tell Our Business to Strangers'
Today, Good Morning America hosted Queen Latifah, whose Put on Your Crown: Life-Changing Moments on the Path to Queendom (Grand Central Publishing, 978-0446555890, $20; Hachette Audio unabridged CD, $22.98) pubs tomorrow.
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Craig Morgan Teicher Returns to PW; Ryk Hsieh Comes On Board
Craig Morgan Teicher is rejoining PW as senior web editor. Ryk Hsieh will join the team as web producer.
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Job Moves: Wednesday, May 5
Margaret Rennolds Chace has joined Skira Rizzoli as associate publisher. Chace, who will start at Rizzoli on May 11, was most recently managing editor of publications at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Before the Met, Chace was v-p and managing editor of Harry N. Abrams. Skira Rizzoli is Rizzoli's museum-focused imprint, which launched in fall 2009.
Julie Bosman has been tapped to succeed Motoko Rich as the reporter covering the book publishing beat at the New York Times. The paper announced in early April that Rich would be moving to a different section. Bosman has predominantly covered politics at the Times.
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Job Moves: Tuesday, May 4
Daniel Lee has joined Firebrand Technologies as content chief and head of Firebrand's new content services group. Lee was, most recently, director of digital content development at Harvard University Press, and prior to that was the digital publishing manager at Yale University Press. Firebrand offers various software programs that help publishers track their titles digitally throughout the supply chain.
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Job Moves: May 3, 2012
Edward Benitez has joined Random House as director, Spanish-language sales.
Peter Hubbard has been promoted to executive editor at William Morrow. He has been with the company since 2004. -
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Mary Pomponio has been promoted to publicity manager at Plume books. Pomponio, who's been at Plume four years, has worked on campaigns for such books as Baseball Prospectus and This is Your Brain on Music.
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People: Week of 5/3/10
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Defendini to Join Open Road Integrated Media
Pablo Defendini, producer at Tor.com, an experimental Macmillan website/publishing venture focused on launching original science fiction, fantasy prose and Web comics, is leaving the company to take a job at Open Road Integrated Media.
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Weber to B&N; Barksdale Joins Tuttle; more.
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Barton Heading Realigned Oxford University Press
Tim Barton has been named to head a restructured Oxford University Press
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Rich Leaving 'NYT' Publishing Beat
Times publishing reporter Motoko Rich will start covering the economy next month.
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Van Metre Named Publisher at Abrams
Following former publisher Howard W. Reeves's move to become editor-at-large earlier this year, Abrams has announced that Susan Van Metre will become v-p and publisher for Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books, effective immediately. Senior editor Tamar Brazis, who has edited books including Laura Numeroff's Jellybeans picture book series, is being promoted to executive editor. Van Metre hopes to build on Abrams' strengths, as well as take a fresh look at the younger end of the list.
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Safro Joins Twelve; Querio to Sorucebooks; more.
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Obituary: Sid Fleischman
Author Sid Fleischman died March 17 in his home in Santa Monica, Calif., at the age of 90. Fleischman won the Newbery Medal in 1987 for his novel The Whipping Boy, and wrote more than 50 books for children, as well as screenplays and adult fiction and nonfiction. His first children's book, Mr. Mysterious & Company, was published in 1962, and his most recent was The Dream Stealer (Greenwillow, 2009). Fleischman was a National Book Award finalist in 1979 for Humbug Mountain. He also received a Boston Globe-Horn Book Award and was a finalist for the Hans Christian Andersen Award.
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