People
by Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 7/19/2004
THOMAS NELSON Pamela Clements, who has been with the company for 11 years, most recently as v-p of publicity and before that as v-p of marketing for Nelson Books, has been named associate publisher of Rutledge Hill Press... Jennifer Willingham, formerly director of publicity, has been named v-p of publicity.
HYPERION Susan Schaffer, previously a national accounts manager at Simon & Schuster, has been named national accounts manager for Borders Group.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN Becky Saikia-Wilson, who has overseen design, production and manufacturing for the adult trade list since 1999, has been promoted to v-p, executive managing editor, director of production and manufacturing, and will add responsibility for manufacturing titles for the trade reference division to her current duties.
PERIGEE BOOKS Marian Lizzi, previously a senior editor at St. Martin's Press, has been named a senior editor.
CROWN PUBLISHING GROUP Luke Dempsey, senior editor at Atria, will join Crown as senior editor July 26... Darlene Faster, previously a publicist, has been promoted to assistant director of publicity... Teresa Brady, previously a publicist, has been promoted to senior publicist... Campbell Wharton has been named associate publicist.
THREE RIVERS PRESS Katie McHugh, previously with Perigee Books, has been named an editor, acquiring in the area of nonfiction.
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS Mark Bloomfield, formerly associate publisher, director of sales, for the past four years, has been promoted to associate publisher, director of sales and marketing.
SOURCEBOOKS Amy Collins, formerly director of retail sales for Adams Media, has been named national sales manager—trade division... Bethany Brown, previously a senior editor at Adams Media, has joined the company as a senior editor in the trade group.
INGRAM INTERNATIONAL Andrew Malkin, formerly brand manager for franchise authors at Time Warner, has been named a v-p, responsible for business strategy.
HARPERCOLLINS Kate Travers, formerly assistant to the publisher, has been named editor of Harper Perennial... Roger Freet, who previously worked in marketing and publicity at Harper San Francisco, has been named a senior editor at HSF.
SOBEL-WEBER ASSOCIATES Marie Marino-McCullough, formerly with the consulting firm Murray Hill Publishing, has been named contracts manager.
CROSSWAY BOOKS AND BIBLES William K. Jensen, formerly with Multnomah, has been named v-p for Bible and project development.
SCHOLASTIC MARKETING PARTNERS Ann Amstutz Hayes, previously regional marketing director for the East Coast, has been named director of new business for Scholastic InSchool Marketing... Shannon Adams, who joined SMP in 1999, has been named regional director of InSchool sales.
IDW PUBLISHING Chris Ryall, formerly editor-in-chief of MoviePoopShoot.com, filmmaker Kevin Smith's pop culture Web site, has been named editor-in-chief, succeeding Jeff Mariotte, who is leaving IDW to write full-time.
HAROLD OBER AND ASSOCIATES Don Leventhall, formerly a film development and production executive, has joined the firm as a literary agent and director of film rights.
HARVARD COMMON PRESS Valerie Cimino, previously managing editor, has been named executive editor, succeeding Pam Hoenig, who has joined Taunton Press... Liza Beth has been promoted to publicist.


















