Burningham To Regan
Sarah Burningham has joined ReganMedia as associate director of publicity. Most recently associate director of publicity at Miramax Books, Burningham will be based in New York, reporting to director of publicity Suzanne Wickham. At Miramax, she worked on campaigns for such books as Freedom by Malika Oufkir and The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine by Steven Rinella.
Price Up At SSE
Patrick Price has been promoted to senior editor at Simon Spotlight Entertainment. Price, who's been with SSE from the start, landed one of the imprint's biggest books: Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's He's Just Not That into You.
Weidenbaum Up at Viz
Marc Weidenbaum has been promoted to v-p, magazines, and editor-in-chief of Shonen Jump and Shojo Beat magazines at Viz Media. Weidenbaum, who started at Viz as media and managing editor of Shonen Jump, helped launch Naruto Collectormagazine. Before joining Viz he was an editorial director at Citysearch.com.
Sevier to Fireside
Ben Sevier has been named senior editor at Simon & Schuster's Touchstone Fireside imprint. Sevier arrives from St. Martin's Press and, before that, worked for HarperCollins. He's edited CJ Box's Blue Heaven and Robert Ellis's City of Fire. In his new role he'll be focusing on acquiring nonfiction and men's commercial fiction.
Bark to Broadway
Sandra Bark has been named associate editor at Broadway Books' Morgan Road Books imprint. A onetime assistant editor at Warner Books, she's been working as a freelance editor and author.
Movement at McSweeney's
Barb Bersche and Eli Horowitz have moved up at McSweeney's. Bersche has been promoted from publisher to president, Horowitz, previously an editor, has been named publisher.
Pillar to Goldberg McDuffie
Laura Pillar has been named associate director of publicity at Goldberg McDuffie. Pillar was most recently publicity manager at Doubleday Broadway.
