Jun 24, 2011
F + W Media has made the following hires/promotions:
Jamie Wilkinson has joined the company as group publisher/community leader (Automotive, Outdoors). Wilkinson was formerly senior director of operations and business development at ESPN Outdoors.
India Amos has joined the company as digital production ePub QA associate. Amos was formerly art director at Nextbook, senior designer at St. Martin¹s Press and Neuwirth & Associates; managing editor at Seven Stories Press; and webmaster of Poets.org, the website of the Academy of American Poets.
Paul Dinas has joined the company as business editor. Dinas most recently served as senior editor at Alpha Books.
Simone Parham has been hired as director of special markets. Parham was formerly director of special markets for Ryland Peters & Small and special markets manager at Houghton Mifflin.
Lauren Rouleau has been hired as special sales manager. Rouleau was formerly special sales manager at Red Wheel/Weiser and assistant manager of sales development at Simon & Schuster.
Bethany Carland-Adams, formerly a publicist at Wiley-Blackwell, has joined the company as senior publicist.
Publishing news from across the Web
NBCC winner Kathryn Schulz has been named the book critic at New York Magazine.
Jerome Rubin, who founded LexisNexis, was president of the Times Mirror book group and led the development of e-ink technology, and was also former chairman of the AAP, died last week.
Atlantic Books in flux among "poor backlist and export sales." From TheBookseller.
| Explosive Eighteen: A Stephanie Plum Novel | Audio Fiction |
| Killing Lincoln (unabr.) | Audio Nonfiction |
| The Son of Neptune (The Heroes of Olympus #2) | Children's Fiction |
| Elf on the Shelf | Children's Picture Book |
| Hunger Games | Children's Series & Tie-ins |
| Blue Exorcist, Volume 3 | Graphic Novels |
| Private: #1 Suspect | Hardcover Fiction |
| Ameritopia: The Unmaking of America | Hardcover Nonfiction |
| The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | Mass Market Paper |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Trade Paper |
