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Authors on the Air December 10, 2013: Trista Sutter
Trista Sutter, author of Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart (Da Capo Lifelong Books, 9780738216652), will guest-host ABC TV’s The View on Wednesday, December 11.
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Job Moves: December 10, 2013
Gonzalo Ferreyra has joined Ingram Publisher Services in the role of director of acquisitions, full-service distribution. Click through for more promotions and appointments.
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Job Moves: December 9, 2013
Margaret Milnes will join the Running Press marketing team in the newly created position of senior director of brand management. Click through for more promotions and appointments.
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Authors on the Air December 6, 2013: Dick Grout
Dick Grout, the author of Jack Grout: A Legacy in Golf (Blue River Press, 9781935628187) will appear on The Smokin Joe's Driving Range Show, KILT-AM in Houston, Tex. on Saturday, Dec. 7.
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Job Moves: December 6, 2013
At Harmony Books, Diana Baroni has been named v-p, editorial director.
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Riley to Head New Division at Steinberg Agency
JillEllyn Riley and Peter Steinberg, who has an eponymous literary agency, have formed Arc & Type, a division of The Steinberg Agency that will create content in-house for book projects.
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Job Moves: December 5, 2013
Marion Garner has been named v-p, deputy publisher, Random House of Canada. Click through for more promotions and appointments.
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Mangan Leaving Perseus for Hachette
Perseus Books Group's Joe Mangan will join Hachette Book Group February 3 as executive v-p and chief operating officer.
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Job Moves: December 4, 2013
Poet and MacArthur Fellow Susan Stewart has been named the new editor of the Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets. Click through for more promotions and appointments.
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Penguin's Heffernan to Retire
Dick Heffernan, who has been running Penguin’s adult hardcover and children’s sales since 1996, will retire at the end of the year.
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Swinwood to Succeed Hayes at Harlequin
Craig Swinwood, currently the chief operating officer for Harlequin North America, will succeed Donna Hayes January 1 as publisher and CEO of the publisher.
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Authors on the Air December 3, 2013: Peter Schweizer
Peter Schweizer, author of Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Their Friends Get Rich off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 9780544103344) will appear on The Diane Rehm Show on Wednesday, December 4.
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Promotions, Hires at Perseus Distribution
As Perseus prepares to incorporate Skyhorse Publishing into its distribution roster, and launch its new Chicago-based distribution unit Legato, the company has added staff and made some promotions.
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Authors on the Air December 2, 2013: Trista Sutter
Trista Sutter, author of Happily Ever After: The Life-Changing Power of a Grateful Heart (Da Capo Lifelong Books, 9780738216652) will appear on CNN's Showbiz Tonight on Monday, December 2.
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Job Moves: December 2, 2013
At the Crown Publishing Group, Jocelyn Cordova has been named director of marketing and publicity for Crown Business, effective December 16. She was previously associate director of publicity at Wiley.
Fortier Public Relations announced that Tara Gilbride has joined the firm as v-p, director of publicity and marketing. She was formerly v-p, director of publicity and marketing for Crown Business.
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Publishers Weekly's Notable Publishing People of 2013
Along with Oren Teicher and the ABA Board, PW's Publishing Person(s) of the Year, we honor these notable people who changed the publishing world in 2013.
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Oren Teicher and the ABA Board: PW's Person of the Year
The independent bookselling community has been counted out more than once over the past three decades as the arrival of superstores, online retailing, and e-books have each led to predictions that most independently owned bookstores would become extinct.
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Job Moves: November 27, 2013
At B&H, Devin Maddox has been promoted to publisher of Leadership Books. Previously, Maddox served as associate publisher for strategic partners at B&H.
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In Tribute to Robert Hale
Robert D. Hale, a bookseller and a former ABA president, died last month at age 85. Bookseller Valerie Lewis offers her earliest memory of Hale.
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Children's Job Moves: November 2013
New job announcements in children's publishing for November 2013.