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Ingram Adds to Leadership of Library Group
Ingram Content Group has promoted one, and hired another, in its library services division.
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Authors on the Air November 28, 2012: Kim Noble
Kim Noble, author of All of Me: How I Learned to Live with the Many Personalities Sharing My Body (Chicago Review Press, 9781613744703), will be on Anderson Live.
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Job Moves: November 28, 2012
Zoe Mackey has been promoted to online marketing and international sales manager at Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Samantha Dighton has joined D4EO Literary Agency as agent, based in Washington, D.C.
Chloe Perkins has joined the Simon Spotlight team as editorial assistant.
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Crutcher New 'PW' Southern Correspondent
Paige Crutcher has been named Publishers Weekly’s southern correspondent. A graduate of Middle Tennessee State University, Crutcher has written extensively about the book scene in her home town of Nashville as a freelance writer. She also served as a columnist for Authorlink.com. Crutcher will serve as PW’s point person for news emanating from the south. She can be reached at pcrutcher@publishersweekly.com; phone number 615-319-1318.
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Authors on the Air November 27, 2012: Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis
Warren Buffett and Carol Loomis will be on The Daily Show for Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything 1966-2012 (Portfolio, 978-1591845737)
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Obituaries: Judy Rosenblatt, Anne Davis
Judy Rosenblatt, a long-time member of the Hachette Book Group sales team, died this past weekend of ovarian cancer.
Anne Davis, chief financial officer of Random House worldwide, died November 26 after a battle with cancer. She was 50. Davis joined Random House in 1995 as assistant controller and was named CFO in 2007.
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Job Moves: November 27, 2012
Anna deVries has been named senior editor at Picador. She has been in publishing for over 10 years, including seven years in the editorial department at Scribner.
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Authors on the Air November 26, 2012: Neil Young, Tim Ferriss
Neil Young will be on The Daily Show for Waging Heavy Peace (Blue Rider Press, 978-0399159466).
Tim Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Chef (New Harvest, 978-0547884592), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show. After the segment airs, listen here.
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Obituary: Deborah Raffin, 59
Actress Deborah Raffin, who teamed with her husband Michael Viner in the mid-1980's to start Dove Books-on-Tape, died in Los Angeles late last week. She was 59.
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DIY Publishing Pioneer Milt Adams Dies
Milt Adams, a pioneer in DIY publishing and the founding publisher of Beavers Pond Press died Sunday in the Twin Cities.
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Authors on the Air November 20, 2012: Paul Tough
Paul Tough, author of How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547564654), will be on Tavis Talks.
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Job Moves: November 20, 2012
Julianne Shapiro, junior digital content specialist at Library Journals LLC, is leaving at the end of the month to join the American Association of Advertising Agencies as its digital content manager.
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Authors on the Air November 19, 2012: David Murrow, Anne Lamott
David Murrow, author of What Your Husband Isn’t Telling You (Bethany House, 978-0-7642-1011-2) will be interviewed on Chris Fabry Live!
Anne Lamott, author of Help, Thanks, Wow: The Three Essential Prayers (Riverhead, 978-1594631290), was on NPR's "Morning Edition." Listen to the segment here.
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Job Moves: November 19, 2012
David Highfill has been named v-p and executive editor at William Morrow. He's been at the HarperCollins imprint for seven years.
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AAUP Names Peter Berkery, Jr. Executive Director
Peter Berkery, Jr. has been named the new executive director of the Association of American University Presses.
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Job Moves: November 16, 2012
Allan Adler has been named general counsel and v-p, government affairs at AAP.
Allison Hollett has been hired as U.S. v-p sales and marketing at Osprey Publishing. She has worked for The Taunton Press, Bantam Doubleday Dell, Arcade Publishing, and Little, Brown.
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Authors on the Air November 15, 2012: Chris Stringer, Andrew Napolitano
Chris Stringer, author of Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (Times Books, 978-0805088915), will be on The Colbert Report.
Andrew Napolitano will be on The Daily Show for Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom (Thomas Nelson, 978-1595553515).
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Job Moves: November 15, 2012
At Foundry Literary + Media, Kirsten Neuhaus has been hired as director of foreign rights for adult titles. For the past three years, she has been running her own agency. Also at Foundry, Rachel Hecht, who joined the agency in 2011, has been promoted to director of foreign rights for children's books. She was previously a YA scout for Mary Anne Thompson Associates. In January, Stephanie Abou will hand over the foreign rights department to Neuhaus and Hecht in order to focus solely on her own list of authors.
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Authors on the Air November 14, 2012: Jon Meacham
Jon Meacham will be on The Daily Show for Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Random House, 978-1400067664).
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Authors on the Air November 13, 2012: Barbara Paul Robinson
Barbara Paul Robinson will be on NPR's "Here & Now" for Rosemary Verey, The Life and Lessons of a Legendary Gardener (David R. Godine, 978-1567924503).
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