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People Round-Up, Early June 2023

Publishing Trends

At Spiegel & Grau , Jess Bonet has joined as marketing director, reporting to publishing director Nicole Dewey. VP, creative director at Harper Children’s Barbara Fitzsimmons is retiring on June 30. She was previously publisher at Humanix Books. She was previously at Random House and Book of the Month.

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Delivering My First Keynote: AI Talk at #TBEX 2023

Content Hacker

Highlights from My First Keynote – TBEX 2023 Content at Scale was a platinum sponsor of the event. I attended with our COO Josh Slone, and our Creative Director Adrian Boysel. “What about the existential crisis of people just settling to publish and read ‘okay’ content, aka non-optimized AI content?

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People Round-Up, Mid-August 2023

Publishing Trends

PEOPLE At Twelve , Publisher Sean Desmond has left the company and will join HarperCollins as VP, executive editor in September. The news came in a memo from HCCB President and Publisher, Suzanne Murphy. Jim Milliot , who has been editorial director of Publishers Weekly since 2014, will be retiring at the end of the year.

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People Round-Up, Mid November 2023

Publishing Trends

At Frankfurter Buchmesse , Christian Ebert will join as director of strategic marketing and sales, as of Jan 1st, 2024. At Tor Publishing Group , Erika Tsang has joined their imprint Bramble as executive editor. Oliver Munday has returned to Doubleday , from Knopf , as creative director.

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People Round-Up, Mid-April 2023

Publishing Trends

Following the retirements of Subsidiary Rights VP Leigh Butler and VPHal Fessenden, Tom Dussel will lead the team in the new role of VP, director, subrights, reporting to Allison Dobson at Penguin Publishing Group. At Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Andrew Unger has joined as business manager. He was most recently at TA-DA!

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Copywriting Corporate Books

Melanie Saxton

These nonfiction books might include contributions from the people who helped make it happen — the initial visionaries, founding members, executive teams, boards of directors, account executives, creative directors, advertising managers, brand ambassadors, and even the end users of products and services (the customer).

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People Round Up, Mid April, 2024

Publishing Trends

PEOPLE At Hachette Book Group , Diana Venitmiglia has joined Balance as executive editor, reporting to publisher Nana Twumasi. At Atlantic Books , due to restructuring, nonfiction publishing director Poppy Hampson has left the company. She was previously director of sales marketing at Crown Publishing Group.