Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He was most recently Director of Consumer Insights at Ingram Content Group. 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. Erin Fitzsimmons joins Sourcebooks as Senior Art Director for Fiction.

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APRIL 6, 2023

In agency news… Jana Hanson , formerly Agent at Metamorphosis Literary Agency , joins D4EO Literary Agency as Agent. Allison Devereux joins Trellis Literary Management as Agent; she was previously Agent and Foreign Rights Director at the Cheney Agency. Sweeney will join as Partner and Associate Publisher on May 1.

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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. Kim Lauber moves up to VP, Children’s Marketing.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Working at Lagardère for 54 years, Leroy had been chair and CEO of Hachette Livre from 2021 to 2023 as well. Jennifer Trzaska will join as imprint sales director for Little, Brown, Running Press Group , and Workman Publishing. She was previously at Penguin Random House as imprint sales director of the Penguin Publishing Group.

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MARCH 10, 2023

In agency news… Lauren Spieller joins Folio Literary Management as Literary Agent; she was previously Literary Agent at Triada US. At Workman , David Schiller moves up to VP and Creative Director. In agency news… Vicky Weber is now Literary Agent at the Purcell Agency. Analucia Zepeda moves up to Assistant Editor.

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JUNE 14, 2023

VP, creative director at Harper Children’s Barbara Fitzsimmons is retiring on June 30. Jennifer Weis has launched The Weis Agency , based in New York City. Weis was a senior agent at Ross Yoon Agency , which was recently acquired by WME , and previously executive editor at St. She was at Olswanger Literary Agency.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Oliver Munday has returned to Doubleday , from Knopf , as creative director. Kelly Blair has been named senior art director for the Knopf Cooks line. At Independent Publishers Group , Tim McCall , formerly trade sales director at Baker & Taylor Publishing Services , is joining as VP of sales.

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