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People Round Up, Early March, 2024

Publishing Trends

In addition Robin Desser has been named Editorial Advisor, Carly Gorga is Chief Marketing Officer and Andrea Bachofen has the role of COO. At Bloomsbury Continuum , editorial director Robin Baird-Smith left the company after 24 years at the end of February. She was previously VP of sales at Callisto Media.

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People Round-Up, Early October 2023

Publishing Trends

At HarperCollins , Stephanie Sano has joined as senior director of finance. and international finance of HarperCollins , will now oversee the publisher’s U.S. General Books Group and Children’s Books finance team. Most recently, she was the VP editorial director of Penguin Random House Convergent and Image Imprints.

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People Round-Up, Mid-January 2023

Publishing Trends

Previously he was VP, Finance at Cengage Learning. At Zando , Hayley Wagreich joins as Director of Original Development and will manage the launch of Zando Projects, which will manage the development of original content with company partners. At Zondervan , Paul J. At Beacon Press , Matt Davis joins as CFO.

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People Round-Up, Mid-November 2022

Publishing Trends

At Wonderwell , Eva Avery joins as Editorial Director. In agency news… Ann Rose , formerly of Prospect Agency , joins The Tobias Agency as Literary Agent. Sera Rivers joins Speilburg Literary Agency as Literary Agent; she was previously at Martin Literary Management. She was previously Editor at Chronicle Prism.

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People Round-Up, Early November 2022

Publishing Trends

Catherine Woods joins MIT Press as Executive Editor for Economics, Finance, and Business. Bold Type Books eliminated the role of Editorial Director Hillary Brenhouse due to “changes in the partnership between the Type Media Center and Hachette.” At Donald Maass Literary Agency , Jolene Haley joins as Literary Agent.

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Why Do Publishers Close Imprints?

Jane Friedman

If the acquiring editors of the imprint are bringing in projects that aren’t selling well enough as frontlist titles, chances are they will not backlist well. Typically, these are people who hold titles such as editorial director or publisher.) Publicist Kathleen Schmidt , who has had a long career in traditional publishing, agrees. “If

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People Round-Up, Early April 2023

Publishing Trends

Kleopatra Benyam , formerly Senior Director of Finance at Ralph Lauren , joins as Director of Finance. She was formerly Editorial Director of Oprah’s Book Club and Books Editor for O Magazine. In agency news… Jana Hanson , formerly Agent at Metamorphosis Literary Agency , joins D4EO Literary Agency as Agent.