Helmers Partners with Creative Trust

Kathryn Helmers, founder of Helmers Literary Services, has joined with the Nashville, Tenn., artist management firm Creative Trust Inc. to form a new literary division at Creative. Helmers will move her clients, who include Donald Miller and Philip Yancey, to the new unit, Creative Trust Literary Group. Originally founded in 1989 to manage music artists, Creative added literary representation in 2001 and clients include Ted Dekker and Angela Thomas.

Stone to Running Press

Geoffrey Stone has been named editor at Running Press, where he will focus on the imprint's cookbook program. Stone arrives from Thomas Nelson's Rutledge Hill Press, where he acquired a broad range of nonfiction titles. At Rutledge Hill, where he was editor-in-chief, he began focusing on the Nelson cookbook program.

Fierz, Davidson and Feng to Waterfront

Marc Fierz, Debra Davidson and Amy Feng have all joined Waterfront Media. Fierz has been named director of strategic partnerships; Davidson senior director of research; and Feng senior director of client services. Fierz was most recently East Coast sales director at Amazon. Davidson arrives from About.com, where she was director of research. And Feng was most recently at Condenet, where she managed a large client services team.