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Putnam Books for Young Readers' Paulsen Gets Own Imprint
Putnam Books for Young Readers president and publisher Nancy Paulsen is launching an eponymous imprint, Nancy Paulsen Books, with the first titles landing in 2011. Paulsen, who has led the division for 15 years, plans to publish 12 to 15 picture books, middle grade and young adult novels annually. She will continue at the helm of Putnam Books for Young Readers until the company finds a successor—a process that has already begun.
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Crown Split
By dividing the Crown Publishing Group into two units, Random House CEO Markus Dohle is putting more structure into an operation that, as Dohle noted, had grown in a myriad of ways, often adding companies that had little in common: Watson-Guptill, Ten Speed Press, Monacelli Press, and Multnomah (just to name a few).
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Fensterman Promoted, Search on For Successor
BookExpo America manager Lance Fensterman has been promoted and Reed is looking for someone to take over his BEA duties.
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Ammer Resigns from Random House
After serving in a number of executive positions at Random House over the past 15 years, Bonnie Ammer has resigned as executive v-p, International Sales, Random House, Inc.
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Obituary: Waldo Hunt
Waldo (Wally) Hunt, considered by many to be the father of the modern pop-up book industry, died on November 6, three weeks shy of his 89th birthday. Through his three companies - Graphics International, Intervisual Communications and finally Intervisual Books - Hunt pioneered the creating, producing, and marketing of pop-up interactive books, and Hunt’s companies dominated the pop-up book business from the 1960’s until the late 1990's.
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Ratzlaff Founds Supreme Social Media
Former Rodale Books v-p Cindy Ratzlaff has started a new e-book and video publishing company, Supreme Social Media. The start-up, which Ratzlaff bills as “an online publishing and training company,” publishes e-books and downloadable videos. Its first release is a four book, 34-video series called FUNdamentals of Social Media, which includes lessons for beginners on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and SEO. It retails for $247 at the company's Web site.
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CIROBE Cofounder, Marshall Smith, Dies
Marshall Smith passed away on November 10 in Franklin, Ind., while returning from last weekend’s CIROBE (Chicago International Remainder and Overstock Exposition) to his bookstore, Key West Island Books.
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WEbook Launches AgentInBox to Connect Authors and Agents Online
WEbook has launched AgentInbox, a service that hopes to link submission-ready manuscripts to appropriate agents.
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Engstrom Named CEO of Reed Elsevier
The one-time Random House executive Erik Engstrom was named CEO of the professional publisher. In an update on business trends, Reed said the sale of its U.S. controlled circulation magazines and certain other magazines (including PW) "is in progress."
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James Tabbed to Run Harlequin’s E-book-only Carina Press
In a move that signifies the importance of women readers and the romance genre in driving e-book sales, romance publisher Harlequin is launching Carina Press, a digital-only publishing venture that will be run separately from Harlequin’s conventional publishing program.
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Halloween 2009: A Photo-Essay
In what has become a holiday tradition, several children's book publishers celebrated Halloween this past week in high style, and with some inventive book-inspired costumes. Here, we present party highlights—both spooky and silly—in a holiday tradition of our own: the post-Halloween photo-essay.
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Obituary: Esther Hautzig
Author Esther Hautzig died on Sunday, November 1, at the age of 79. She was best known for her 1968 work, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, an autobiographical account of her family’s life in Siberia during WWII, having being exiled there from Poland. She wrote several other books for children over a career that spanned five decades...
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Weiss to St. Martin's
Veteran publishing exec Dan Weiss has a new job as publisher at large at St. Martin’s, reporting to Matthew Shear, who is senior v-p and publisher of the house’s paperback and consumer reference groups. Weiss will work on developing content for Gen Y readers—“emerging adults who are navigating career, love and family in a 24/7 connected world,” explained Shear.
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McIntosh Named to New Spot at Random House
Madeline McIntosh is returning to Random House in a newly created high level post in which she will report directly to CEO Markus Dohle.
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Dyssegaard Joins Hyperion
Elisabeth Dyssegaard will join Hyperion November 16 as editor-in chief, replacing Will Balliett, who left earlier this fall to head Thames and Hudson.
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Mazer’s Legacy Honored; Memorial Date Set
Family, friends, and colleagues are honoring in their own ways Norma Fox Mazer, who died of cancer on October 17. Remembrances of Mazer include a memorial scheduled for next weekend and the establishment of a scholarship fund by her family, to which several of her former students and other writers are pledging the royalties from a recent anthology. The memorial service will be held on November 7 at 2 p.m in the Vermont College of Fine Arts chapel...
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Lorena Jones New Publishing Director at Chronicle
Chronicle Books announced yesterday that former Ten Speed Press publisher Lorena Jones has taken over as publishing director. In her new role, Jones will initiate a digital food and drink publishing program, and oversee Chronicle’s food and drink list as a whole.
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Cronin Moving to RH's Sub Rights Department
Denise Cronin has been named v-p of subsidiary rights for the Random House Publishing Group, filling a position that has been open since Rebecca Gardner left in late September to be rights director at the Gernert Company.
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Goldklang to Globe Pequot Press
Janice Goldklang, the former publisher of Knopf’s Pantheon Books imprint, landed at Globe Pequot Press today after leaving Random House Inc. as part of a restructuring earlier this year.
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Frank McCourt Remembered and Honored
“An Evening of Reminiscence, Music, Poetry and Laughter” was promised for the memorial to Frank McCourt held at Symphony Space on Tuesday night, and it was amply delivered.
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