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Job Moves: January 19, 2012
Ann Godoff has promoted Virginia Smith Younce to senior editor at the Penguin Press.
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Ileene Smith Joining FSG as Exec Editor
Ileene Smith will join Farrar, Straus and Giroux as v-p and executive editor on February 15. She will be acquiring and editing authors on both the FSG and Hill & Wang lists.
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Authors on the Air January 18, 2012: Shalom Auslander, Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman, Joe Nocera
Shalom Auslander will be on the Leonard Lopate Show for his debut novel Hope: A Tragedy (Riverhead, 978-1594488382).
Daniel Handler and Maira Kalman will be on the Brian Lehrer Show discussing Why We Broke Up (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 978-0316127257).
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Job Moves: January 18, 2012
Lori Galvin has been promoted to executive editor at America's Test Kitchen. She has been with them since 2002 as senior editor.
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Mason Moves Up at Norton
Alane Salierno Mason was promoted from v-p and senior editor at W.W. Norton to executive editor.
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Authors on the Air January 17, 2012: Patricia Cohen, Adele Enersen
Patricia Cohen will be on The Brian Lehrer Show for In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age (Scribner, 978-1416572893).
Adele Enersen, author of When My Baby Dreams (Balzer + Bray, 978-0062071750), was on the Today show this morning to talk about her book.
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Job Moves: January 17, 2012
Open Road has announced that Betsy Mitchell will serve as strategic advisor for science fiction and fantasy.
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Authors on the Air January 13, 2012: Eben Miller, Hallie Ephron, Elinor Lipman, Mira Bartok
On the January 16 Literary New England Radio Show on BlogTalk Radio at 8 p.m., there will be a celebration of Martin Luther King Day with Maine professor Eben Miller, author of Born Along the Color Line.
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Job Moves: January 13, 2012
Barb Burg has joined the Thomas Reuters Communications and Editorial groups as v-p, director of global communications, Reuters News. She was most recently senior v-p and director of publicity and public relations for the Bantam Dell Publishing Group.
Howard Books has announced Barry Landis is joining the company as v-p, associate publisher. Landis was previously president of Word Label Group.
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Portia Clark Remembered
Portia Clark, a well-known figure in New York publishing from the 1960s to the 1980s, died on January 1. She was 91.
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Authors on the Air January 12, 2012: Connie Rice, Heather Donahue
Connie Rice was on NPR's Morning Edition for her book Power Concedes Nothing: One Woman's Quest for Social Justice in America, from the Courtroom to the Kill Zones (Scribner, 978-1416575009).
Heather Donahue will be on Growgirl: How My Life After the Blair Witch Project Went to Pot (Gotham, 978-1592406920).
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Authors on the Air January 11, 2012: Jim DeMint, Dave Barry, Kathy Gunst
Senator Jim DeMint will be on The Daily Show and Hannity for Now or Never: Saving America from Economic Collapse (Center Street, 978-1455511846).
Dave Barry will be on The Leonard Lopate Show to talk about Lunatics (Putnam, 978-0399158698).
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Job Moves: January 11, 2012
Leila Porteous has been hired as senior editor at Crown, reporting to Victoria Craven. Porteous was previously with McGraw-Hill Professional, where she was an editor acquiring business books.
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Obituary: Milburn Calhoun
Pelican Publishing is mourning the loss of its longtime publisher, Dr. Milburn Calhoun, who passed away on Saturday, January 7, at the age of 81.
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Authors on the Air January 10, 2012: Andrew P. Napolitano, Gary Shteyngart
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano, author of It Is Dangerous to Be Right When the Government Is Wrong: The Case of Personal Freedom (Thomas Nelson, 978-1595553508), will be on The Daily Show.
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Farley Joins SwoopThat
Publishing veteran Dan Farley, most recently head of Macmillan’s children’s publishing group, has been named executive v-p of business development for SwoopThat LLC.
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Job Moves: January 9, 2012
Haights Cross Communications has appointed Scott August as chief financial officer for both HCC and Triumph Learning. August was previously chief financial officer for Kaplan Test Prep.
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Authors on the Air January 9, 2012: Tom Ryan, Alison Hawthorne Deming, John Dufresne, Melissa V. Harris-Perry
Rick Riordan will be on Rock Center with Brian Williams giving clues to the next Kane Chronicles novel.
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Amanda Cook Takes Exec Editor Spot at Crown
Amanda Cook, current executive editor at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, has been hired by Crown. Starting on February 6, Cook will step into the role of v-p and executive editor at the Random House division.
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Authors on the Air January 6, 2012: Chris Gethard, Sam Sommers, Tran Ahn Hung
Chris Gethard will talk about his new book A Bad Idea I'm About to Do: True Tales of Seriously Poor Judgment and Stunningly Awkward Adventure (De Capo Press, 978-0306820304) on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
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