Publishing Trends

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

SVP and publisher of Avery and Tarcher Perigee , Megan Newman , has taken PRH ’s VSO package and will retire in December. Casey Hampton has joined Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group as senior designer. President and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books , Suzanne Murphy will leave the publisher at the end of the month.

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

, Palazzo Editions , Ad Lib Publishers , Mardel Books , and Pimpernel Press. He previously was the CEO of The Quarto Group until 2018 and the co-founder of Welbeck Publishing Group until late 2022 where it was then sold to Hachette UK. The position was previously held by Amy Einhorn who is now SVP and publisher of Crown.

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APRIL 23, 2024

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.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

At Penguin Young Readers , Ken Wright , President and Publisher of the Viking , Philomel , and Flamingo Publishing Group , will retire at the end of January 2023. Dan Reynolds , SVP and Publisher of Workman Publishing , will retire at the end of the year. Wilson has been named Director, effective January 2023.

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APRIL 24, 2023

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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APRIL 6, 2023

Katy DiRienzo , formerly Production Coordinator at Penguin Publishing Group, joins as Reprint Production Manager. Leigh Butler , SVP, and Hal Fassenden , VP, Director of Subsidiary Rights, are retiring from Penguin Publishing Group after forty-five and thirty-six years, respectively. Sierra Moon joins as Junior Analyst.

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OCTOBER 17, 2023

Kristen Klemens has joined as client manager for Simon & Schuster Publishing Services , She was formerly partner manager for trade sales and marketing at Rebel Girls. At Tin House Books , publisher Craig Popelars has stepped down after four years with the company. She will continue to be publisher of Harper Wave until March 31.

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

Jesse Myers has been named President and CEO of Baker Publishing , effective May 1, 2023, and is the first person outside the Baker family to hold the position. Myers is currently Publisher of Lexham Press and Director of Original Content for Faithlife , makers of Logos Bible Software. Jackie Ford is serving as Interim CEO.

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MARCH 10, 2023

At HarperCollins , SVP, International Sales David Wolfson has retired and SVP, Sales and Associate Publisher for the children’s division Andrea Pappenheimer has departed the company. Publisher Christine Carswell will retire from Chronicle in April. Most recently she was Executive Director of global NGO Girl Be Heard.

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

Walker has been named VP, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at the Association of American Publishers. At Simon & Schuster , Danielle Prielipp joins as Marketing Director. Previously she was Assistant Director, Marketing & Email Strategy at St. Martin’s Publishing Group. Most recently she was Art Director at Hello!Lucky.

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JUNE 14, 2023

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. Amy Hosford has joined KN Literary Arts as general manager.

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