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AUGUST 19, 2024

Hachette Book Group , Clive Priddle will step down as publisher of Public Affairs , effective September 13. Previously she was SVP, director of marketing and & strategy & engagement at Random House. Celeste Knudson has joined as senior art director for children’s. She was previously at AMEET Publishing.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Gina Centrello , longtime President and Publisher of the Random House Publishing Group , is retiring from her position. At Penguin Random House , Vaishali Nayak , previously Senior Marketing Manager at HarperCollins Children’s Books , joins as Assistant Director of Brand Marketing. He was previously CFO at Macmillan.

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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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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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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. At Tin House Books , publisher Craig Popelars has stepped down after four years with the company.

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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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MAY 6, 2024

At Macmillan Publishers , Madeline Winter has joined as sales and business development specialist at Macmillan. Stephanie Lewis , director of analytics, was most recently director, business analytics, at Insight Editions ; prior to Insight she held various data analytics positions at Sourcebooks. Kiehl as executive director.

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JULY 23, 2024

Running Press publisher Kristin Kiser will become president of that new division at that time. Susan Weinberg will retire from her role as publisher of Workman at the end of this year. Michael Barrs is joining Little, Brown and Company as VP, associate publisher. April Li is joining as editorial assistant.

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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. Carl Maxwell joins as VP, Public Policy.

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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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APRIL 23, 2024

PEOPLE At Hachette Book Group , Diana Venitmiglia has joined Balance as executive editor, reporting to publisher Nana Twumasi. Crist will be reporting to Callie Garnett , Editorial Director, Adult Trade. At Atlantic Books , due to restructuring, nonfiction publishing director Poppy Hampson has left the company.

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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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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

PEOPLE Bloomsbury Publishing has appointed Sabrina McCarthy as president of Bloomsbury US , effective in early April. Previously, she was the VP and general manager of Ingram Publisher Services. Macmillan president, sales & marketing, Jennifer Gonzalez , has been named SVP publisher of Sourebooks children’s books.

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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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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

PEOPLE At Penguin Random House , Roseanne Serra , VP and director of art and design and Paul Buckley , senior VP and executive creative designer have left Penguin Publishing Group. At Simon & Schuster , Elizabeth Huang has joined Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing as a digital marketing assistant.

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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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MARCH 5, 2024

PEOPLE Co-Founders Madeline McIntosh, Nina von Moltke and Don Weisberg announced the launch of Authors Equity, a new collaborative book publisher. McIntosh holds the title of CEO and Publisher, von Moltke is President and Weisberg is Senior Advisor. Sam Priddy will serve as publisher.

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