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Authors on the Air July 19, 2012: Caitlin Moran, E.J. Dionne
Caitlin Moran will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for her book How to Be a Woman (Harper, 978-0062124296).
E.J. Dionne will be on The Daily Show for Our Divided Political Heart (Bloomsbury, 978-1608192014).
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Job Moves: July 19, 2012
Mark Chait is joining HarperCollins's It Books imprint as executive editor. Chait is currently at Penguin's NAL imprint.
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Authors on the Air July 18, 2012: John Feinstein, Mary C. Neal, Nora Gedgaudas
John Feinstein was on the Today show for Rush for the Gold: Mystery at the Olympics (Knopf, 978-0-375-86963-1).
On the July 19 edition of the Today show, Mary C. Neal, author of To Heaven and Back (WaterBook, 978-0307731715), will be a guest.
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Job Moves: July 18, 2012
Kristin Ostby has joined Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers as an editor. She was most recently a senior editor for Albert Whitman & Co.
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Authors on the Air July 17, 2012: Carol Alt, Victor Cruz, Patricia Walker
Carol Alt will be on The View on July 18 for Easy Sexy Raw (Clarkson Potter, 978-0307888693).
Victor Cruz, author of Out of the Blue, will be on The Daily Show (Celebra, 978-0451416155).
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Job Moves: July 17, 2012
At Publishing Technology, Rebecca Cullen and Toby Plewak are both taking the role of customer strategist at the Oxford and Cambridge offices, respectively.
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'7 Habits' Author Stephen R. Covey Dies
Stephen R. Covey, author of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, died July 16 at the age of 79 from injuries sustained in an April bicycle accident. 7 Habits was published in 1989 and has sold over 20 million copies to date and has been published in 38 languages.
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Authors on the Air July 16, 2012: Brian Castner, Bruce DeSilva
Brian Castner, author of PW Pick The Long Walk: A Story of War and the Life that Follows (Doubleday, 978-0385536202), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
Bruce DeSilva, author of Rogue Island (Forge, 978-0765329813), was on NPR's "Morning Edition."
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Job Moves: July 16, 2012
Nancy Laties Feresten has been named senior v-p for children's publishing and media at National Geographic. She has been with the company since 1999 as v-p and editor-in-chief of children's books. She will now oversee the National Geographic Kids content development team, which includes kids' magazines, books, digital products, web site, and television.
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Obituary: Lowell Farley
Former book publicist Lowell Farley died July 3. He was 81. Farley, with his late wife Edna, ran one of the foremost book publicity firms in the country out of his Fort Lauderdale home base. According to one publisher, the pair "pioneered the now-accepted work-from-home business mode."
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Authors on the Air July 13, 2012: Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon, Nikki Stern
Yoko Ono and Sean Lennon will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for An Invisible Flower (Chronicle Books, 978-14521-0911-4).
Nikki Stern, author of Hope in Small Doses (Humanist Press), will be on "Culture Shocks", hosted by Rev. Barry Lynn at 4 p.m. ET.
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Job Moves: July 13, 2012
At Yale University Press, Kate Brown is now chief operating officer. She was previously managing director of the technology, media, and telecom group at Bank of America.
Heather McCormack is now collection development manager at 3M. She was previously book review editor at Library Journal.
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Authors on the Air July 12, 2012: Robin Shulman
Robin Shulman, author of Eat The City (Crown, 978-0307719058), will be on The Brian Lehrer Show.
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New Leadership Team at RH Australia and New Zealand
Margie Seale, managing director of Random House Australia and New Zealand, as well as president of Asia Development Random House Inc., is stepping down. With her departure, the publisher has created a new ANZ leadership team that will be overseen by Andrew Davis and Karen Ferns.
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Authors on the Air July 11, 2012: Robert Blakeslee, Kurt Andersen
Robert Blakeslee will be on "The Mancow Show" for Your Time To Bake (Square One, 978-0757003554).
Kurt Andersen, author of True Believers (Random House, 978-1400067206), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show.
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Job Moves: July 11, 2012
Andrew Hodder-Williams is now publishing director at Lion Hudson. Since 1997, he has worked as a consultant to the publishing and telecoms sectors.
Katrinka Geslani will join the Simon & Schuster Children's Division as associate demand planner covering Aladdin & Simon Pulse imprints.
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Job Moves: July 10, 2012
Melissa Bounty has been named the associate publisher of the Choose Your Own Adventure children's series. Bounty, who was previously the senior managing editor of the series for five years, will become the first associate publisher for the series during its decade-long publication by Chooseco, LLC.
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Authors on the Air July 10, 2012: Eve Michaels, John Dramani Mahama
Eve Michaels, author of Dress Code: Ending Fashion Anarchy (Jacquie Jordan, 978-0981931180), will be on Today on July 11.
John Dramani Mahama will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for My First Coup d'Etat: And Other True Stories from the Lost Decades of Africa (Bloomsbury, 978-1608198597).
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Job Moves: July 9, 2012
Nita Taublib has been named executive editor at G.P. Putnam's Sons. She was most recently publisher and editor in chief at Bantam.
Leah Johanson has joined the Free Press as a publicist. She was previously an associate publicist at Random House.Authors on the Air July 9, 2012: Rajiv Chandrasekaran, Mary R. Morgan
Rajiv Chandrasekaran, author of PW Pick Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan (Knopf, 978-0307957146), will be on Tavis Talks.
Mary R. Morgan, author of Beginning with the End: A Memoir of Twin Loss and Healing (Vantage Point, 978-1936467396), will be on The Leondard Lopate Show.
