Job Moves: September 27, 2011

Andrea Colvin has been named v-p, content/executive producer, book division, at Andrews McMeel Publishing. Colvin was formerly director of publishing operations at Open Road Integrated Media.

Betsy Mitchell to Leave Del Rey

Betsy Mitchell, editor-in-chief of Del Rey for the last decade, has chosen to take early retirement and will leave the Random House science fiction and fantasy imprint in December.

The Monday Interview: Jeanne Adlon

An interview with Jeanne Adlon, whose Cat Calls: Wonderful Stories and Practical Advice from a Veteran Cat Sitter is out this week from Square One Publishers.

Authors on the Air September 26, 2011: Peter Van Buren, Florence Henderson, Eric Olsen

Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (Metropolitan, 978-0-8050-9436-7), will be interviewed on NPR’s Fresh Air.

Job Moves: September 26, 2011

Pippin Properties has announced the hire of Lauren Weber as agency assistant following her summer internship with the agency. Weber has had a variety of experiences in publishing, from working for a scholarly publishing house to a fashion magazine.

Authors on the Air September 23, 2011: Florence Henderson, Susan Lucci

Florence Henderson will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon for Life is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond (Center Street, 978-1599953885).

Susan Lucci was on NPR's Morning Edition for All My Life: A Memoir (It Books, 978-0062061850).

Job Moves: September 23, 2011

Ed Park has been hired as an editor, acquiring general fiction, at Amazon Publishing. Park, who was most recently an editor at literary magazine The Believer, has also worked for the The Voice Literary Supplement and wrote the 2008 novel Personal Days.

Authors on the Air September 22, 2011: Tavis Smiley, Dorothy Roberts, Thomas Friedman, Jennifer Granholm

Tavis Smiley, author of Fail Up: 20 lessons on Building Success from Failure (SmileyBooks, 978-1401933906), will be on The Colbert Report.

Dorothy Roberts, author of Fatal Invention: How Science, Politics, and Big Business Re-create Race in the Twenty-First Century (New Press, 978-1595584953), will be on Tavis Smiley.

Job Moves: September 22, 2011

Kate Gales will join the Simon & Schuster publicity department as a senior publicist on Team 4, reporting to Kelly Welsh.

Steve Geck has joined Sourcebooks as editorial manager for Sourcebooks Jabberwocky! In this new position, Geck will be responsible for acquisitions and the overall direction of growing the children’s imprint.

Authors on the Air September 21, 2011: Daniel Yergin, Mitch Daniels, Ron Suskind

Daniel Yergin will be on The Colbert Report to talk about his book The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World (Penguin Press, 978-1594202834).

Mitch Daniels, author of Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans (Sentinel, 978-1595230805), will be on The Daily Show.

Job Moves: September 21, 2011

Kelli Martin has joined Amazon Publishing in Seattle as senior acquisitions editor at Montlake Romance. Most recently, she was a senior editor at Harlequin.

Maria Curman to Leave Bonnier Books

During Maria Curman's years as CEO, Bonnier's book publishing operations have grown both in terms of sales and geographic markets. The year 2010 was the strongest for books in the company's 200-year history.

Authors on the Air September 20, 2011: Ron Suskind, Jeffrey Kluger, Jane Lynch

Ron Suskind, author of Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President (Harper, 978-0061429255), will be on The Daily Show.

Jeffrey Kluger, author of The Sibling Effect: What the Bonds Among Brothers and Sisters Reveal About Us (Riverhead, 978-1594488313), will be on The Colbert Report.

Job Moves: September 20, 2011

Little, Brown and Company senior editor John Parsley has been promoted to executive editor. Parsley joined Little, Brown and Company as a senior editor in the fall of 2007 and prior he was an editor at the Thomas Dunne Books division of St. Martin’s Press.

Lynch Nominated for B&N Board

This year’s Barnes & Noble annual meeting should be a much quieter affair than last fall’s special shareholders meeting in which chairman Len Riggio defeated an effort by Ron Burkle to elect a separate slate of officers, but there will nonetheless be a bit of a changing of the guard aspect. William Lynch, CEO of the company, has been nominated to the board for the first time.

L.A. Poet and Bookseller Scott Wannberg Gets a Merry Prankster Send-Off

Hundreds of people turned out at the memorial for Scott Wannberg, one of the most distinctive voices of the Los Angeles poetry and bookselling scenes, on September 17 at Beyond Baroque Literary Center in Venice, Calif.

Authors on the Air September 19, 2011: Florence Henderson, Michael Moore, Alexandra Fuller, Kevin Wilson

Florence Henderson, author of Life is Not a Stage: From Broadway Baby to a Lovely Lady and Beyond (Center Street, 978-1599953885) will be on the Today show tomorrow morning.

Michael Moore, author of Here Comes Trouble: Sotires from My Life (Grand Central Publishing, 978-0446532242) will be on Tavis Smiley.

Job Moves: September 16, 2011

Allison Verost has been named publicity director at the Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. She'll be responsible for overseeing all publicity and communications, and will report to president Jon Yaged.

Authors on the Air September 16, 2011: Monica Holloway, Jane Lynch

Monica Holloway, author of Cowboy & Wills (Gallery Books 978-1416595045) will give an hour-long interview on KTLK Autism America. Her segment will begin at 3:15pm on Saturday, Sept 17 http://www.ktlkam1150.com/mediaplayer/.

Jane Lynch, author of Happy Accidents (Voice, 978-1401341763), was on NPR's Morning Edition.

Sambeth Replacing Pfuhl at Verlagsgruppe Random House

Joerg Pfuhl, CEO of Verlagsgruppe Random House, will step down from that position at the end of the year, Random CEO Markus Dohle announced to employees today. Pfuhl has been with Bertelsmann since 1994 and held various executive positions at Random House before being named to head Random’s Germany subsidiary in 2008. Pfuhl will be succeeded by Frank Sambeth, currently CFO at the publisher.