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Authors on the Air April 3, 2013: Sheryl Sandberg, Mary Roach
Sheryl Sandberg will be on The Daily Show for Lean In (Knopf, 978-0385349949).
Mary Roach will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for PW Pick Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Norton, 978-0-393-08157-2). After the segment airs, listen here.
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Schlosser Named Executive Chairman of McGraw-Hill Education
Ron Schlosser has been appointed executive chairman of McGraw-Hill Education’s board of directors.
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Job Moves: April 2, 2013
Holly Dolce has joined Abrams as the executive editor of cookbooks for the company's Stewart, Tabori & Chang imprint. She was most recently a senior editor at Melcher Meida.
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Authors on the Air April 2, 2013: Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen, author of Most Talkative (St. Martin's, 978-1250031464), will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Live with Kelly and Michael.
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Authors on the Air April 1, 2013: Mary Roach, Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen
Mary Roach will be on The Daily Show for PW Pick Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (W.W. Norton, 978-0393081572).
Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for PW Pick The Dark (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 978-0316187480). After the segment airs, listen here.
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Flanagan Moves to APG
Martin Flanagan has moved from Ideals Publications, a division of Guideposts, after 26 years as president and v-p of sales, and has joined APG sales & distribution.
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Job Moves: April 1, 2013
At Other Press, Jessica Greer has been promoted to the position of senior publicist.
House of Anansi Press has hired Janice Zawerbny as senior editor with responsibility for Canadian fiction. Zawerbny was formerly the editorial director at Thomas Allen Publishers.
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Authors on the Air March 29, 2013: David Sheff
David Sheff will discuss Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy (Eamon Dolan/HMH, 978-0547848655) on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon this Saturday, March 30.
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Job Moves: March 28, 2013
Dave Bolen has joined Highlights Press as director of sales. Mary Cogan has joined the Highlights book group in the newly created position of senior editor, Highlights Press. Sarah Zhang has joined Boyds Mills Press as assistant editor. Tessia Bekelja and Brittany Ryan have joined Highlights as editorial interns in the Book Publishing Group.
Candice Chaplin has been named imprint sales director at Crown. Jacqueline Lebow has been appointed imprint sales director for publishing brands including RH Audio, Fodor's Travel, Living Language, Princeton Review, and Prima Games.
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Authors on the Air March 28, 2013: Aleksandar Hemon, Lisa Lillien
Aleksandar Hemon will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for PW Pick The Book of My Lives (FSG, 978-0374115739). After the segment airs, listen here.
Lisa Lillien will be on Marie for Hungry Girl to the Max (St. Martin's Griffin, 0312676786).
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Ermelino Named VP at 'PW'
Reviews director Louisa Ermelino has been promoted to the position of vice president at Publishers Weekly.
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AudiobooksNow Adds 2,000 Harper Audio Titles
AudiobooksNow has added over 2,200 Harper Audio titles to its audiobook download and streaming service. Titles are in genres including fiction, fantasy, political science, business, and biography. AudiobooksNow currently offers over 12,000 digital audiobook titles.
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Job Moves: March 27, 2013
Mary Cullinane has been named chief content officer and executive v-p of corporate affairs at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She joined the company in 2012.
Ann Treistman is joining Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton, as senior editor. Most recently, she was with Skyhorse Publishing.
Caroline Riordan is digital business director at Penguin. She previously worked for Hyperion as senior manager of e-books and business development.
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Authors on the Air March 27, 2013: Wenguang Huang, Nancy Kricorian
The Leonard Lopate Show will have A Death in the Lucky Hotel's (PublicAffairs, 978-1610392730) Wenguang Huang, as well as the author of All the Light There Was (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547939940), Nancy Kricorian.
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Authors on the Air March 26, 2013: Eric Topol, Gina Holmes
Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine (Basic Books, 978-0465025503), will be on The Colbert Report.
Gina Holmes, author of Wings of Glass (Tyndale House, 978-1414366418), will be on Fox 21/27 morning news on March 27.
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Wattpad Hires Faktor, Chan and Gardner
Wattpad, an online writing community aimed at consumers reading on mobile devices, announced the hiring of Candice Faktor, Charles Chan and Ashleigh Gardner.
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Job Moves: March 26, 2013
Kelley Baker has been promoted to sales coordinator at Chronicle Books.
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Job Moves: March 25, 2013
Nirmal Sandhu has been promoted to head of rights at Hachette Children's Books in the U.K.. He joined the company as rights manager at Orchard Books in 2006.
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Miller Leaving Workman Publishing
Bob Miller, who took over as group publisher of Workman Publishing in March 2010, will leave the company April 5, Carolan Workman announced to the staff in a memo today.
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Authors on the Air March 25, 2013: Marshele Waddell, Phil Demuth
Marshele Waddell, co-author of Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home: Help and Healing for Families Living with PTSD and TBI (Revell, 978-0800721565), will be a guest on The Diane Rehm Show on March 26.
Phil Demuth, author of The Affluent Investor (Barron's, 978-0-7641-6564-1), will be on Fox & Friends, Kilmeade & Friends on Fox News Radio, and The Daily Wrap with Michael Castner on March 26.
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