Publishing Trends

DECEMBER 9, 2024

Macmillan Publishers announced that former senior editor at Avid Reader Press , Julianna Haubner is joining Flatiron Books as executive editor. Justin Alvarez has joined as manager of consumer marketing sales. At Scholastic , Chandler Rawson , formerly digital intern at PR by the Book , has joined as field sales assistant.

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Publishing Trends

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

At Frankfurter Buchmesse , Christian Ebert will join as director of strategic marketing and sales, as of Jan 1st, 2024. At Tor Publishing Group , Erika Tsang has joined their imprint Bramble as executive editor. Oliver Munday has returned to Doubleday , from Knopf , as creative director.

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Publishing Trends

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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Publishing Trends

AUGUST 24, 2023

PEOPLE At Twelve , Publisher Sean Desmond has left the company and will join HarperCollins as VP, executive editor in September. The news came in a memo from HCCB President and Publisher, Suzanne Murphy. Jim Milliot , who has been editorial director of Publishers Weekly since 2014, will be retiring at the end of the year.

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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

APRIL 8, 2024

PEOPLE Penguin Random House , Anna Paustenbach will join Avery Publishing as executive editor on April 1st. Jen Schwabinger , VP and director, sales development is departing after 40 years with the company. At Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group , Ciara Tomlinson joins Pantheon as an associate publicist.

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Publishing Trends

APRIL 23, 2024

PEOPLE At Hachette Book Group , Diana Venitmiglia has joined Balance as executive editor, reporting to publisher Nana Twumasi. 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

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

PEOPLE At Simon & Schuster , Marysue Rucci will become publisher of Scribner on February 24, succeeding Nan Graham. At Penguin Random House , Windy Dorresteyn has moved back to VP and deputy publisher of Ten Speed Graphic , licensing, Clarkson Potter Gift , and Compendium. Kate Ellsworth has joined as editor at Running Press.

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Publishing Trends

OCTOBER 20, 2022

At Penguin Random House , SVP, Director of Publishing Operations Sue Malone-Barber will retire at the end of the year. Felicia Frazier , SVP, Children’s and Educational Sales, is departing to launch a new venture, to be announced. At Candlewick , Mary Marotta will join as SVP, Sales, North America on November 21.

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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. 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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Men With Pens

JANUARY 7, 2010

Copywriters can advance to Creative Director positions, for example. Freelance Writing – The Cons: You have to do “sales&# to land clients and find work. The creative director took me aside to talk about my fee. You have the possibility for rapid corporate advancement. You’re on your own.

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The Creative Penn

JUNE 29, 2023

One of the things that we hear from them over and over, especially from our most successful and prolific authors, was that they'd finish a book, they'd put it up for sale, and then the very next day, their readers would start asking them for the sequel. As the creative director, you are driving. You drive the tool as the author.

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Publishing Trends

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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Publishing Trends

JANUARY 16, 2024

She first joined S&S in 2008 after three years as publisher of Rodale Books. Kaitilin Harri has been named senior director of publishing at William Morrow. She was previously the senior director or marketing at Morrow. Jim Dassise, the western region business manager for Arcadia Publishing has left.

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Backlinko

JULY 12, 2024

We spoke to John Skinner , Creative Director at Candour, to learn a common interview question he asks senior SEOs. The website already had a high volume of content published in the niche and had a lot of topical authority. The aim was to publish four SEO-driven pieces a month. For this, I use GA4’s segment overlap.

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