Clement Tops Soundview



Rebecca Clement has been appointed publisher of Soundview Executive Book Summaries, a Pennsylvania-based company that produces condensed summaries of business books.

Weese Joins Island Press

Brian Weese has been named director of sales and marketing at Island Press. Weese was most recently head of bookselling operations for the Society of Human Resource Management.

Chronicle Expands

Chronicle Books has made a number of new hires in its sales and marketing department. Liz Rockhold has been named senior sales manager in special markets; David Cunningham joins as national accounts manager; Joseph Ternes comes on as director of Internet sales and marketing; Patricia Quill joins as publicity and marketing manager for the art, architecture and design categories; Mark Boorstein has been named sales analyst; and Liza Algar comes on board as director of marketing for the adult trade and gift divisions.

Fischer-Harbage to Vigliano

Ryan Fischer-Harbage has joined Vigliano Associates as an agent. Most recently an editor at Simon Spotlight Entertainment, Fischer-Harbage has previously held posts at Plume and Little, Brown. He's worked on such titles as Peter Singer's bestseller The President of Good & Evil: Questioning the Ethics of George W. Bush.

Llosa, Friedman Join Collins

Genoveva Llosa and Ethan Friedman have both joined HarperCollins' Collins Business imprint. Llosa, who was most recently an assistant editor at Crown, has been named associate editor. Friedman, who's decamping from his position as an editor at St. Martin's Press, is taking the same title at Collins.

Obituary: Daniel Lundy

Industry veteran Daniel T. Lundy passed away in New York City on May 29 after losing his battle with lung cancer. Lundy, who was 51, was a respected member of the academic publishing world and spent the last years of his career at Penguin Group, most recently as v-p and director of academic and library marketing. A lover of bluegrass music and an authority on classic literature, Lundy is survived by his wife, Mary Sue, and his sons, Jared and Damon.