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Authors on the Air April 8, 2013: Daniel Kahneman, David A. Stockman
Thinking, Fast and Slow author Daniel Kahneman (FSG, 978-0374533557) will be on The Brian Lehrer Show. After the segment airs, listen here.
David A. Stockman will be on The Daily Show for The Great Deformation (PublicAffairs, 978-1586489120).
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Job Moves: April 8, 2013
Wah-Ming Chang, a long-time production manager at Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, is the new managing editor of Melville House. The company’s book blog, MobyLives, has a new managing editor in Alex Shephard, founding editor and editor in chief of Full Stop magazine, who will be running the blog as part of his position as Melville House’s new director of digital marketing.
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Peter Workman Dies at Age 74
Peter Workman, who founded Workman Publishing in 1967 as a book packager and turned it into one of the country’s most successful independent publishers, died April 7 after a battle with cancer. He was 74.
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Authors on the Air April 5, 2013: Joseph Gallenberger, James H. Cone, Elaine Heffner, Susan Sachs Goldman
Joseph Gallenberger, Ph.D., author of Inner Vegas: Creating Miracles, Abundance, and Health (Rainbow Ridge, 978-1937907105) will be the guest of George Noory on Coast to Coast.
Dr. James H. Cone, author of The Cross and the Lynching Tree (Orbis Books, 978-1-62698-005-1) will be Bill Moyers' guest on public television's "Moyers and Company.
Susan Sachs Goldman, author of Friends in Deed: The Story of Quaker Social Reform in America (Highmark Press, 978-0615589572) will be the guest of Maureen Fiedler on Interfaith Voices.
Elaine Heffner, author of Goodenoughmothering (XLIBRIS, 978-1479716098), will be on "The Open Mind".
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Job Moves: April 5, 2013
Ali Coughlin has been promoted to associate national account manager at Hachette. She joined the company in 2009.
Christian Trimmer will join the S&S Books for Young Readers team as senior editor beginning April 15. He was previously with the Walt Disney Company, where he spent the last 13 years.
Irina Lumelsky has been appointed sales and marketing officer for the United Nations Publications. She was previously a manager, digital rights at McGraw-Hill Professional.
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Children's Job Moves: March 2013
New job announcements in children's publishing for March 2013.
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Job Moves: April 4, 2013
Barbara Poelle, a senior agent at the Irene Goodman Literary Agency, has been promoted to a vice president of the agency.
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Authors on the Air April 3, 2013: Sheryl Sandberg, Mary Roach
Sheryl Sandberg will be on The Daily Show for Lean In (Knopf, 978-0385349949).
Mary Roach will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for PW Pick Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (Norton, 978-0-393-08157-2). After the segment airs, listen here.
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Schlosser Named Executive Chairman of McGraw-Hill Education
Ron Schlosser has been appointed executive chairman of McGraw-Hill Education’s board of directors.
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Job Moves: April 2, 2013
Holly Dolce has joined Abrams as the executive editor of cookbooks for the company's Stewart, Tabori & Chang imprint. She was most recently a senior editor at Melcher Meida.
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Authors on the Air April 2, 2013: Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen, author of Most Talkative (St. Martin's, 978-1250031464), will be on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and Live with Kelly and Michael.
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Authors on the Air April 1, 2013: Mary Roach, Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen
Mary Roach will be on The Daily Show for PW Pick Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal (W.W. Norton, 978-0393081572).
Lemony Snicket and Jon Klassen will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for PW Pick The Dark (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 978-0316187480). After the segment airs, listen here.
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Flanagan Moves to APG
Martin Flanagan has moved from Ideals Publications, a division of Guideposts, after 26 years as president and v-p of sales, and has joined APG sales & distribution.
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Job Moves: April 1, 2013
At Other Press, Jessica Greer has been promoted to the position of senior publicist.
House of Anansi Press has hired Janice Zawerbny as senior editor with responsibility for Canadian fiction. Zawerbny was formerly the editorial director at Thomas Allen Publishers.
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Authors on the Air March 29, 2013: David Sheff
David Sheff will discuss Clean: Overcoming Addiction and Ending America’s Greatest Tragedy (Eamon Dolan/HMH, 978-0547848655) on NPR’s Weekend Edition with Scott Simon this Saturday, March 30.
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Job Moves: March 28, 2013
Dave Bolen has joined Highlights Press as director of sales. Mary Cogan has joined the Highlights book group in the newly created position of senior editor, Highlights Press. Sarah Zhang has joined Boyds Mills Press as assistant editor. Tessia Bekelja and Brittany Ryan have joined Highlights as editorial interns in the Book Publishing Group.
Candice Chaplin has been named imprint sales director at Crown. Jacqueline Lebow has been appointed imprint sales director for publishing brands including RH Audio, Fodor's Travel, Living Language, Princeton Review, and Prima Games.
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Authors on the Air March 28, 2013: Aleksandar Hemon, Lisa Lillien
Aleksandar Hemon will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for PW Pick The Book of My Lives (FSG, 978-0374115739). After the segment airs, listen here.
Lisa Lillien will be on Marie for Hungry Girl to the Max (St. Martin's Griffin, 0312676786).
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Ermelino Named VP at 'PW'
Reviews director Louisa Ermelino has been promoted to the position of vice president at Publishers Weekly.
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AudiobooksNow Adds 2,000 Harper Audio Titles
AudiobooksNow has added over 2,200 Harper Audio titles to its audiobook download and streaming service. Titles are in genres including fiction, fantasy, political science, business, and biography. AudiobooksNow currently offers over 12,000 digital audiobook titles.
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Job Moves: March 27, 2013
Mary Cullinane has been named chief content officer and executive v-p of corporate affairs at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. She joined the company in 2012.
Ann Treistman is joining Countryman Press, a division of W.W. Norton, as senior editor. Most recently, she was with Skyhorse Publishing.
Caroline Riordan is digital business director at Penguin. She previously worked for Hyperion as senior manager of e-books and business development.