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Authors on the Air January 20, 2012: Mark Williams
Mark Williams will be on NPR's Science Friday to talk about his book Mindfulness: An Eight-Week Plan for Finding Peace in a Frantic World (Rodale Books, 978-160961198).
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Job Moves: January 20, 2012
Gabrielle Barikian has been named publicity intern at Harlequin Enterprises Limited. Barikian was previously the public relations intern at Entertainment Fusion Group.
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Authors on the Air January 19, 2012: Gaby Rodriguez
Gaby Rodriguez, author of The Pregnancy Project: A Memoir (Simon & Schuster, 978-1442446229), will be on Dr. Phil. Tomorrow she will be on Inside Edition and Issues wth Jane Velez Mitchell.
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Job Moves: January 19, 2012
Ann Godoff has promoted Virginia Smith Younce to senior editor at the Penguin Press.
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Ileene Smith Joining FSG as Exec Editor
Ileene Smith will join Farrar, Straus and Giroux as v-p and executive editor on February 15. She will be acquiring and editing authors on both the FSG and Hill & Wang lists.
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Authors on the Air January 18, 2012: Shalom Auslander, Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman, Joe Nocera
Shalom Auslander will be on the Leonard Lopate Show for his debut novel Hope: A Tragedy (Riverhead, 978-1594488382).
Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman will be on the Brian Lehrer Show discussing Why We Broke Up (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 978-0316127257).
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Job Moves: January 18, 2012
Lori Galvin has been promoted to executive editor at America's Test Kitchen. She has been with them since 2002 as senior editor.
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Mason Moves Up at Norton
Alane Salierno Mason was promoted from v-p and senior editor at W.W. Norton to executive editor.
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Authors on the Air January 17, 2012: Patricia Cohen, Adele Enersen
Patricia Cohen will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age (Scribner, 978-1416572893).
Adele Enersen, author of When My Baby Dreams (Balzer + Bray, 978-0062071750), was on the Today show this morning to talk about her book.
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Job Moves: January 17, 2012
Open Road has announced that Betsy Mitchell will serve as strategic advisor for science fiction and fantasy.
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Authors on the Air January 13, 2012: Eben Miller, Hallie Ephron, Elinor Lipman, Mira Bartok
On the January 16 Literary New England Radio Show on BlogTalk Radio at 8 p.m., there will be a celebration of Martin Luther King Day with Maine professor Eben Miller, author of Born Along the Color Line.
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Job Moves: January 13, 2012
Barb Burg has joined the Thomas Reuters Communications and Editorial groups as v-p, director of global communications, Reuters News. She was most recently senior v-p and director of publicity and public relations for the Bantam Dell Publishing Group.
Howard Books has announced Barry Landis is joining the company as v-p, associate publisher. Landis was previously president of Word Label Group.
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Portia Clark Remembered
Portia Clark, a well-known figure in New York publishing from the 1960s to the 1980s, died on January 1. She was 91.
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Authors on the Air January 12, 2012: Connie Rice, Heather Donahue
Connie Rice was on NPR's Morning Edition for her book Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones (Scribner, 978-1416575009).
Heather Donahue will be on Growgirl: How My Life After the Blair Witch Project Went to Pot (Gotham, 978-1592406920).
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Authors on the Air January 11, 2012: Jim DeMint, Dave Barry, Kathy Gunst
Senator Jim DeMint will be on The Daily Show and Hannity for Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse (Center Street, 978-1455511846).
Dave Barry will be on The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about Lunatics (Putnam, 978-0399158698).
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Job Moves: January 11, 2012
Leila Porteous has been hired as senior editor at Crown, reporting to Victoria Craven. Porteous was previously with McGraw-Hill Professional, where she was an editor acquiring business books.
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Obituary: Milburn Calhoun
Pelican Publishing is mourning the loss of its longtime publisher, Dr. Milburn Calhoun, who passed away on Saturday, January 7, at the age of 81.
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Authors on the Air January 10, 2012: Andrew P. Napolitano, Gary Shteyngart
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, author of It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case of Personal Freedom (Thomas Nelson, 978-1595553508), will be on The Daily Show.
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Farley Joins SwoopThat
Publishing veteran Dan Farley, most recently head of Macmillan’s children’s publishing group, has been named executive v-p of business development for SwoopThat LLC.
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Job Moves: January 9, 2012
Haights Cross Communications has appointed Scott August as chief financial officer for both HCC and Triumph Learning. August was previously chief financial officer for Kaplan Test Prep.
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