MIGHTYWORDS Susan Sandler and Nancy Mikhail were named senior directors of content. Sandler was senior editor at Warner Books, where she worked with such authors as Sidney Sheldon, Harry Belafonte, Carol Higgins Clark and Natalie Cole. Prior to that she was editorial director of the start-up Time Warner AudioBooks. Previously, she spent 10 years at the Literary Guild and the Mystery Guild in executive and managerial positions. Mikhail was executive editor at McGraw-Hill, where she acquired 100 Years of Wall Street by Charles Geisst. Prior to that she was senior editor of the Complete Idiot's series at Macmillan Publishing.
THE FREE PRESS Bruce Nichols was promoted to vice president. He remains a senior editor.
HARPERCOLLINS Executive editors Robert Jones and Terry Karten have each been named a v-p of the general books group.... Martha D. Reddington was named v-p of special markets. She was an independent sales and marketing contractor for publishers.... J Veltre was appointed senior editor at HarperBusiness. He was a senior editor at St. Martin's Press.... Pam Lutz was named v-p, director of marketing, children's. She was director of business and market development, children's, at Random House.... Allison Devlin was named executive director of publicity, children's. She was director of public relations at DK.... Rebecca Grose was named senior manager of publicity, children's. She was publicity manager at DK.... Tim Duggan was named editor. He was an editor at Basic Books.
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY Betty Hudson was named senior v-p, communications. She was senior v-p of corporate communications for iVillage.
ABC-CLIO Edward Lott was named director of sales, schools division. He was director of sales at Sunburst Technology.... Vince Duggan was named v-p, sales and marketing, academic and public library division. He was v-p and editorial director for the schools and college divisions at Heinle & Heinle/Thomson Learning.
KALMBACH PUBLISHING Mike Williams was named editor of trains.com. He was associate professor at the Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.... Tom Chmielswski was named associate editor of trains.com. He was assistant lifestyle editor for the Battle Creek Enquirer.
TOMMY NELSON Neal Joseph was named executive v-p. He was v-p and general manager of entertainment at Crosswalk.com.... Rodney Hatfield was named director of marketing. He held the same position at Spring Hill Music Group.... Amy Wagley was appointed entertainment products manager. She was marketing coordinator at Spring Hill Music Group.
TYNDALE HOUSE Everett D. O'Bryan was promoted to v-p, trade sales. He was manager of the outdoor magazines of Petersen Publishing.
WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS Dr. Donald K. McKim was named editor of academic and reference books. He is a theological teacher and author.
INDIANA UNIV. PRESS Janet Rabinowitch was promoted to editorial director. She was assistant director and senior sponsoring editor.... Emmy Ezzell, formerly production manager, was named production director.... Patricia Newforth, assistant director and general manager, was promoted to operations director.
QVC PUBLISHING Karen Murgolo was appointed acquisitions and rights director. She was senior editor at The Literary Guild and GuildAmerica Books.
TIME WARNER Eileen Naughton was named v-p of investor relations. She was president of Time Interactive.
CAMBRIDGE UNIV. PRESS Sloane Lederer was named marketing director. She was trade sales and marketing director at W.H. Freeman.
WALKER AND COMPANY Eileen Pagan was promoted to subsidiary rights director. She was subsidiary rights manager.
GROLIER CHILDREN'S Pamela Sader was promoted to director, sales and marketing. She was marketing director.
VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER Jane Beck and Meg Ostrum, copublishers, were named executive director and associate director, respectively.... William Jaspersohn was named series editor. He was executive editor of Sports Illustrated Winners Circle Books.
FRANKLIN & SIEGAL ASSOCIATES Sandra Zane, formerly subsidiary/foreign rights manager at the Dijkstra Agency, and Rob Stroud, formerly of Authors and Artists Group, have joined the company as literary scouts.
SCOUTS Linda Clark Associates has been appointed scout for DeB kerij, Holland, and as consultant to XO Editions (Bernard Fixot) Paris. |  | | Sandler |  | | Nichols |  | | Reddington |  | | Hudson |  | | Lott |  | | Duggan |  | | Williams | |
