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People Round-Up, Early June 2023

Publishing Trends

PEOPLE Sasha Quinton has been named EVP and president of Scholastic’s School Reading Events , the newly formed division that combines the book fairs and book clubs businesses. VP, creative director at Harper Children’s Barbara Fitzsimmons is retiring on June 30. Hadar Makov Hassan has been named artistic director.

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Delivering My First Keynote: AI Talk at #TBEX 2023

Content Hacker

He’d watched this powerful video , featured in my newsletter over at Content at Scale : This was Rick’s email after watching that story: And thus commenced an amazing conversation – all about AI, how Rick was one of the very first to launch an event for content creators and social influencers, Blog World, in 2007. Talk about OG!

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People Round Up, Early January, 2024

Publishing Trends

Jenny Davis has been named creative director, leading the newly created illustrated design team, at the Random House Publishing Group. She will report to SVP, creative director Paolo Pepe. He succeeds David Marshall , who is retiring after 17 years at the company.

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People Round Up, Mid April, 2024

Publishing Trends

Margo Goody has been promoted to VP and creative director at Macmillan Audio. Eli Mock has been promoted to associate art director. Pam Notarantonio has been promoted to VP and creative director for children’s books and Comicarts. At Quirk Books , Andie Reid has been promoted to creative director.

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People Round Up, Early March, 2024

Publishing Trends

Sally Poulson will lead both imprints, Priddy Books and Neon Squid as managing director. Joanne Clark will become creative director and Fiona Macdonald will take on the role of publishing director. Graça Tito is promoted to director of events and Roberto Velez is promoted to director of financial planning and analysis.

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People Round Up, Mid March, 2024

Publishing Trends

Eric Chinski , has been promoted to editorial director, nonfiction at FSG. Na Kim has been promoted to creative director at FSG. Alex Merto has been promoted to senior art director at Picador. Jenna Johnson has been promoted to SVP, editor-in-chief at Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (FSG).

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People Round-Up, Mid-August 2023

Publishing Trends

At Doubleday , Director of interior design Maria Carella will retire. SVP and creative director John Fontana will retire after 23 years as part of the company’s VSO offer. Kira Weiner has been promoted to associate marketing manager, events at Catapult , Counterpoint , and Soft Skull Press.