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Kim Shannon Joins S&S as SVP of Sales
Shannon comes to Simon & Schuster from Penguin Random House’s the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. She succeeds the late Gary Urda, who died suddenly on June 24.
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Christine Gillespie Joins Open Road as SVP, Publisher
The former SVP and publishing director at Knopf will oversee the Open Road publishing team, effective immediately. She succeeds Mara Anastas, who will step into the new role of VP of special projects.
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Deb Futter Adds Flatiron to Purview, with Megan Lynch Up as Bob Miller Exits Macmillan
The president and publisher of Celadon Books has taken on that same role at Macmillan’s Flatiron imprint, where founder Bob Miller will depart after 11 years. EVP and publisher Megan Lynch assumes oversight of day-to-day operations.
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Words Without Borders Appoints Elisabeth Jaquette Executive Director
The Arabic-language translator and current head of the American Literary Translators Association will succeed Karen M. Phillips at the top of the literary arts organization and its English-language magazine of translated literature on September 1.
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Behind the Cover: BookTok’s Favorite Book Designer
Designer Elisha Zepeda has become a TikTok star for sharing his book cover design process. Are publishers paying attention?
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Tim Holman Promoted to Orbit President and Publisher
Holman launched Orbit, Hachette Book Group's SFF division, in 2007, publishing such authors as N.K. Jemison and Andrzej Sapkowski. In his new role, he will continue to report to HBG CEO David Shelley, who said the division is currently having its "most successful period ever" following "two successive record-breaking years."
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PRH's Annette Danek-Akey to Head B&N Supply Chain
Danek-Akey will leave her position as chief supply chain officer at Penguin Random House at the end of August to help with Barnes & Noble's expansion of its retail footprint. With her departure, Jeff Abraham has been promoted to COO of PRH US.
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Gabrielle Brooks, Jenny Jackson Up at Knopf
Brooks has been named associate publisher and Jackson has been elevated to editorial director of fiction, among other personnel changes following the May "restructure" of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group that saw the exit of Knopf publisher Reagan Arthur and Pantheon Schocken publisher Lisa Lucas.
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Regina Brooks Named AALA President
The founder and CEO of Serendipity Literary Agency has been elected to lead the Association of American Literary Agents, succeeding Jennifer Weltz of JVNLA.
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Reagan Arthur Returns to Hachette
On September 23, the former Knopf and Little, Brown publisher will return to Hachette Book Group as SVP and publisher, leading an as-yet-unnamed boutique imprint and editing major authors across HBG’s publishing divisions.
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