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Job Moves: November 13, 2012
Christina Smith DeYoung has been named director of sales and marketing at Harvard Education Press. She was previously with WGBH Education.
Richard Buthod is now national sales manager for Turtleback Books. He was previously in the same role for Unique Books.
Jake Putzler has been promoted to senior director, information technology at Rockpoint Logistics.
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Authors on the Air November 12, 2012: Mike Huckabee, Patrick O'Donnell
Mike Huckabee, author of Dear Chandler, Dear Scarlett (Sentinel, 978-1595230935), will be on The Daily Show.
Patrick K. O’Donnell will discuss Dog Company: The Boys of Pointe du Hoc—The Rangers Who Accomplished D-Day’s Toughest Mission and Led the Way across Europe (Da Capo, 9780306820298) on NPR’s “Here & Now.”
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Job Moves: November 12, 2012
Kassie Evashevski has been promoted to partner at UTA.
Lee W. Yeckel will lead the sales and customer service departments at Whitaker Corporation. He was formerly at Fisher Scientific.
Judy Brunsek has joined Owlkids Books as director of sales and marketing.
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Job Moves: November 9, 2012
Laura Gianino has joined Bloomsbury Adult as an associate publicist. She was previously with Penguin.
Catherine Felgar has joined HarperCollins as publishing operations director, and she will manage the William Morrow and Ecco lists. She was previously with Cambridge University Press.
Tom Miller is now executive editor in the trade & professional reference group at McGraw-Hill Professional. He was formerly an executive editor at Wiley.
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Authors on the Air November 9, 2012: Barbara Kingsolver, Oliver Sacks
On NPR's "Science Friday," Barbara Kingsolver will talk about climate change and her novel Flight Behavior (Harper, 978-0062124265), and Oliver Sacks will talk about Hallucinations (Knopf, 978-0307957245).
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Authors on the Air November 8, 2012: Amy Goodman
Amy Goodman will be on Tavis Talks for The Silenced Majority (Haymarket, 978-1608462315).
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Job Moves: November 8, 2012
Donna Condon has been appointed Harlequin (UK) editorial director. She was previously with Piatkus, Little, Brown Book Group.
Abigail Ranger has joined the early childhood group at HarperCollins Children's Books as senior editor. She was previously with Disney-Hyperion.
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Obituary: Bob Silverstein
Bob Silverstein, president of Quicksilver Books Literary Agency and part of the New York literary world for almost fifty years, died last Saturday at the age of 76. Silverstein’s agency, a former book packaging and publishing firm, was behind the bestsellers Last Tango in Paris, Chariots of Fire, Nice Girls Don’t Get The Corner Office, and Children Learn What They Live, among many others.
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Obituary: Patrick O'Connor
Patrick O’Connor, former editor-in-chief at Washington Square Press, Pinnacle Books, Popular Library, and Curtis Books, and former senior editor at New American Library and Warner Books, died from complications of pneumonia on Saturday, October 13 in Houston. He was 87.
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Job Moves: November 7, 2012
Allison Carroll has been named editorial assistant for Harlequin Desire and Romantic Suspense. She was previously the editorial assistant and website manager for Dorchester Publishing.
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Job Moves: November 6, 2012
Michael Szczerban has been promoted to editor from associate editor at Simon & Schuster.
Philip Rappaport has joined Open Road as senior editor. Most recently, he was executive editor at McClelland & Stewart.
Eric Jensen has been appointed v-p of marketing at House of Anansi Press.
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Book Publicist Coordinates Sandy Relief on Jersey Shore
Independent book publicist Kathleen Matthews Schmidt is using her publicity skills and publishing industry contacts to help the victims of Superstorm Sandy who live on the Jersey Shore.
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Authors on the Air November 6, 2012: Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks, author of Hallucinations (Knopf, 978-0307957245), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show. After the segment airs, listen here.
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Modugno Joining Random House
Maria Modugno has been named editorial director of picture books at Random House and Golden Books for Young Readers Group.
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Job Moves: November 5, 2012
At Palgrave Macmillan, Dominic Knight has been appointed to executive director, business programs. Sam Burridge has been promoted to managing director.
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Publisher Coordinates Grassroots Efforts on Staten Island
Bywater Books publisher Michele Karlsberg is putting her skills as a book publicist to good use this week, coordinating relief efforts on Staten Island.
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Authors on the Air November 5, 2012: Nate Silver
Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail--But Some Don't (Penguin Press, 978-1594204111), will be on The Colbert Report.
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Authors on the Air October 31, 2012: Jon Ronson
Jon Ronson, author of Lost at Sea: The Jon Ronson Mysteries (Riverhead, 978-1594631375), will be on The Daily Show.
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Perry Retiring at UNC Press
David Perry, editor-in-chief of the University of North Carolina Press, is retiring. The industry veteran, who started at UNC Press in 1979 as an editorial assistant, will be stepping down in March 2013.
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