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Authors on the Air March 27, 2013: Wenguang Huang, Nancy Kricorian
The Leonard Lopate Show will have A Death in the Lucky Hotel's (PublicAffairs, 978-1610392730) Wenguang Huang, as well as the author of All the Light There Was (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 978-0547939940), Nancy Kricorian.
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Authors on the Air March 26, 2013: Eric Topol, Gina Holmes
Eric Topol, author of The Creative Destruction of Medicine (Basic Books, 978-0465025503), will be on The Colbert Report.
Gina Holmes, author of Wings of Glass (Tyndale House, 978-1414366418), will be on Fox 21/27 morning news on March 27.
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Wattpad Hires Faktor, Chan and Gardner
Wattpad, an online writing community aimed at consumers reading on mobile devices, announced the hiring of Candice Faktor, Charles Chan and Ashleigh Gardner.
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Job Moves: March 26, 2013
Kelley Baker has been promoted to sales coordinator at Chronicle Books.
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Job Moves: March 25, 2013
Nirmal Sandhu has been promoted to head of rights at Hachette Children's Books in the U.K.. He joined the company as rights manager at Orchard Books in 2006.
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Miller Leaving Workman Publishing
Bob Miller, who took over as group publisher of Workman Publishing in March 2010, will leave the company April 5, Carolan Workman announced to the staff in a memo today.
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Authors on the Air March 25, 2013: Marshele Waddell, Phil Demuth
Marshele Waddell, co-author of Wounded Warrior, Wounded Home: Help and Healing for Families Living with PTSD and TBI (Revell, 978-0800721565), will be a guest on The Diane Rehm Show on March 26.
Phil Demuth, author of The Affluent Investor (Barron's, 978-0-7641-6564-1), will be on Fox & Friends, Kilmeade & Friends on Fox News Radio, and The Daily Wrap with Michael Castner on March 26.
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Job Moves: March 22, 2013
Sabrina Callahan is now director of publicity for James Patterson Little, Brown and Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She has been with the company since 2007.
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Authors on the Air March 22, 2013: Julianne Moore
Julianne Moore, author of Freckleface Strawberry (Bloomsbury, 978-1599901077), will be on Anderson Live.
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Job Moves: March 21, 2013
Laina Adler has been promoted to v-p, senior director of marketing at HarperOne. She has been with the company for 10 years.
Kim Gonzales is no longer with AudioGO as bookkeeper. She can be reached at kimnkri@aol.com. Jill Ovren is no longer marketing and publicity coordinator. She can be reached at jill.ovren@gmail.com.
At Chronicle, Kristen Hewitt has been promoted to design director, formats.
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Authors on the Air March 21, 2013: Blake Bailey
Blake Bailey, author of PW Pick Farther & Wilder: The Lost Weekends and Literary Dreams of Charles Jackson (Knopf, 978-0-307-27358-1), will be on The Leonard Lopate Show. After the segment airs, listen here.
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Authors on the Air March 20, 2013: Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler will be on Tavis Talks for his book The Secrets of Happy Families (William Morrow, 978-0061778735).
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Job Moves: March 20, 2013
At AudioGO, as of March 31, digital sales manager Traci Cothran is no longer with the company. She can be reached at tjcothran@yahoo.com. As of March 31, Tara Gelsomino is no longer executive marketing manager. She can be reached at tgelsomino@gmail.com. As of May 31, Laura Almeida is no longer managing editor. She can be reached at lccalmeida10@gmail.com.
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Authors on the Air March 19, 2013: John Green, Jeremy Kingsley
John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars (Dutton, 9780525478812), will be a guest on CBS’ The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson.
Jeremy Kingsley, author of Inspired People Produce Results (McGraw Hill, 9780071809115) will be on Fox & Friends on March 20th.
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Job Moves: March 19, 2013
Sarah Gold has retired as a reviews editor for Publishers Weekly. She can be reached at sfgold55@gmail.com.
Harry Blake has joined Worthy Publishing as a v-p, sales, specializing in gift and non-traditional book and paper product channels. He will place particular emphasis on Worthy’s new Ellie Claire imprint, which specializes in premium quality gift and paper expressions.
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Authors on the Air March 18, 2013: Lauren Scheuer, Paullina Simons, Aria Beth Sloss, Amity Gaige
The Literary New England Radio Show airing at 8 p.m. Monday, March 18, on BlogTalk Radio will feature: Lauren Scheuer on Once Upon a Flock (Atria, 978-1451698701); Paullina Simons on Children of Liberty (William Morrow, 978-0062103239); Aria Beth Sloss on Autobiography of Us (Holt, 978-0805094558); Amity Gaige on Schroder (Twelve, 978-1455512133). Listeners will have the chance to win Autobiography of Us and Schroder. For more information, click here.
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Job Moves: March 18, 2013
At Chronicle Books, Christina Amini has been promoted to editorial director, formats. Tara Creehan has been hired as a designer for the Kids Publishing Group.
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Authors on the Air March 15, 2013: Anat Admati
Anat Admati was on NPR's "Morning Edition" for The Banker's New Clothes (Princeton University Press, 978-0691156842). Listen to the segment here.
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Job Moves: March 14, 2013
Rachael Rakes has been appointed marketing manager at Verso Books. She has held previous positions managing the marketing and publicity departments at the Feminist Press and AK Press.
Patti Pirooz has been promoted to publisher at Penguin Audio. She started at Penguin in 1999 as audio manager and helped merge the Penguin and Putnam Berkley audio divisions into Penguin Audio.
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Authors on the Air March 14, 2013: Carol Dyhouse on PW Radio
On PW Radio, Carol Dyhouse tells us about her book Girl Trouble: Panic and Progress in the History of Young Women (Zed Books, 978-1780324937), and then PW editors Jonathan Segura and Calvin Reid call us with a report from the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas. Listen at 3 pm on Sirius XM channel 80.