Publishing Trends

APRIL 8, 2024

At Random House , Sara Birmingham will join May 6 as executive editor, reporting to VP editor in chief Ben Greenburg and working closely with editorial director Caitlin McKenna , to expand the fiction list. She was previously director of Belknap Publishing at Harvard University Press. She was previously at Ecco.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Macmillan president, sales & marketing, Jennifer Gonzalez , has been named SVP publisher of Sourebooks children’s books. Yaniv Soha has joined Atria Books and Simon & Schuster as executive editor. At Penguin Random House ’s imprint, Portfolio , Casey Ebro joins as executive editor, reporting to Niki Papadopoulos.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

PEOPLE Alison Lazarus , executive VP, director of sales, is retiring and will leave Hachette Book Group next month. Lauren Monaco will be joining Hachette on October 2 as executive VP, director of sales. President and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books , Suzanne Murphy will leave the publisher at the end of the month.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Andrea Fleck-Nisbet , founding VP and Publisher of Harper Horizon , will succeed Angela Bole as CEO of the Independent Book Publishers Association. Jordan Rodman has been named Senior Director of Publicity for Vintage Anchor. Most recently she was Director of Publicity at Avid Reader Press.

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APRIL 24, 2023

At Random House Children’s Books, Joey Ho has been promoted to publicist. She was most recently publicity manager at Interlink Books. Brianna Skelly has joined Scholastic as editorial assistant. Ritsuko Okumura has been promoted to senior director and will sell foreign rights for Putnam, Avery, and Portfolio, reporting to Khan.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

At Penguin Random House , Vaishali Nayak , previously Senior Marketing Manager at HarperCollins Children’s Books , joins as Assistant Director of Brand Marketing. Sara Bershtel , previously SVP, Publisher at Metropolitan Books , joins Penguin Press as Editor-at-Large. John Snyder joins PR by the Book as Assistant Publicist.

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MARCH 10, 2023

Most recently she was Executive Director of global NGO Girl Be Heard. Nathan Rostron joins ZE Books as Interim Publishing and Marketing Director. He was most recently Editorial and Marketing Director at Restless Books. Rucker was most recently Sales Director at Gibbs Smith.

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