Publishing Trends

JUNE 14, 2023

Carlos Hernandez has joined PRH Grupo Editorial as director of sales, special markets, focusing on the Origen imprint. He previously held senior sales positions at Editorial Unilit , Grupo Nelson , and Harper Christian. Michelle Waters joins Riverhead as marketing manager. She was previously at W.W.

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Publishing Trends

MARCH 5, 2024

In addition Robin Desser has been named Editorial Advisor, Carly Gorga is Chief Marketing Officer and Andrea Bachofen has the role of COO. Sally Poulson will lead both imprints, Priddy Books and Neon Squid as managing director. Steve Munnings previously sales director of Imagine That has joined as group commercial director.

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Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Francesca Oddo-Budinoff joins as Director, Marketing Strategy she was previously Senior Global Marketing Manager at Edelman. Lisa Beech joins Nelson Books as Director of Publicity; previously, she was Associate Director of Publicity at WaterBrook & Multnomah. Wilson has been named Director, effective January 2023.

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Publishing Trends

MAY 6, 2024

PEOPLE At Simon & Schuster , Craig Mandeville , VP and general manager at Simon & Schuster, will retire effective July 13. At Macmillan Publishers , Madeline Winter has joined as sales and business development specialist at Macmillan. Jessica Sorentino has joined as senior marketing and diversified sales manager at Macmillan.

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Publishing Trends

APRIL 23, 2024

Lauren Roberts joins Little, Brown , as senior publicity manager. Crist will be reporting to Callie Garnett , Editorial Director, Adult Trade. At HarperCollins , Jefferey Chin has joined as sales analyst. At Atlantic Books , due to restructuring, nonfiction publishing director Poppy Hampson has left the company.

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Publishing Trends

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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Publishing Trends

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. Erika Semprun joins Dutton , Plume , and Tiny Reparations Books as Social Media Manager. Previously she was Director of Publicity at Ecco.

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Publishing Trends

APRIL 24, 2023

At Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Andrew Unger has joined as business manager. He was most recently retail sales manager/digital strategy specialist at Grove Atlantic. Sonya Harris has joined Chronicle as senior sales manager for special sales. She was most recently publicity manager at Interlink Books.

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Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

At Penguin Random House , David Phethean , VP, Mass Merchandise, National Accounts and Distributor Sales, will retire at the end of the year. Jordan Rodman has been named Senior Director of Publicity for Vintage Anchor. Most recently she was Director of Publicity at Avid Reader Press. At Scholastic , Richard Gonzalez, Jr.

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Publishing Trends

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. He was most recently Editorial and Marketing Director at Restless Books. He was formerly Production Manager at Duke University Press.

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Publishing Trends

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. She was formerly editorial assistant at Little, Brown and Company. Masie Cochran , editorial director, has been appointed as interim publisher.

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Publishing Trends

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Alisa Trager has joined as managing editor. Robert Naggar has joined as senior director of production operations. Hannah Dragone has joined as senior production manager. At Penguin Random House SVP, sales & customer operations John Bohman will retire on December 15 as part of the company’s VSO.

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Publishing Trends

DECEMBER 19, 2022

He was previously Director of Financial Analysis at Penguin Random House. Maya Battle , previously Associate Director of Audience Development and Category Specialist at Random House , joins as Director of Marketing Intelligence. Josh Marwell , President of Sales at HarperCollins, is retiring.

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Jane Friedman

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The most straightforward explanation for imprint closures: lack of sufficient sales. He says that business managers across the publishing industry review yearly profit & loss statements, and if an imprint is consistently in the red, watch out. In 2022, children’s hardcover sales were down 12.5%

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Publishing Trends

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Holt VP and Executive Director of Publicity Pat Eisemann is retiring on December 2. Arriel Vinson joins Holt as Marketing Manager, having worked previously as Marketing Coordinator for Catapult / Counterpoint / Soft Skull Press. Brandi Stewart joins as Telesales Account Manager, Western Region.

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Content Marketing Institute

AUGUST 10, 2018

Glenn started at the global commercial real estate services and investment management giant as a public relations manager, then took over regional social media strategy. Today, he’s the senior manager of brand strategy. Content is never just content. The Ambitions program set out to unify brand efforts.

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