Myers Named President of New Leaf

Irv Myers has been promoted to president of New leaf Distribution Co. and New leaf Sales and Distribution Services. Myers joined New Leaf last year after serving in executive roles at NBN and PGW.

Job Moves: August 18, 2011

The Experiment has promoted Jack Palmer to the newly created position of publicity and marketing manager, and has also added Molly Cavanaugh as publishing assistant.

Authors on the Air August 18, 2011: Kevin Mitnick

Kevin Mitnick, author of Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Little, Brown and Company, 978-0316037709) will be on The Colbert Report.

Job Moves: August 17, 2011

Neebo, the retail division of the Nebraska Book Company, has announced that it has hired Gwen M. Clancy, a former district team leader for Target Corp., as an area v-p to oversee the company's Southwest College Stores.

Authors on the Air August 17: Stacy Kaiser, James Van Praagh, Thomas Vander Ven, Andrea Arden

Stacy Kaiser, author of How to Be a Grown Up: The Ten Secret Skills Everyone Needs to Know (HarperOne, 9780061941191) will be on the Today show.

Growing Up in Heaven (HarperOne, 9780062024633) author James Van Praagh will be on Nightline.

Job Moves: August 16, 2011

Martingale & Company has announced that Paula Schlosser has joined the company as design director, replacing Stan Green, who served the company as art director for 12 years and has recently retired. Prior to joining Martingale, Schlosser served as art director, higher education at Oxford University Press

Authors on the Air August 16, 2011: Amy Waldman, Matt Long, Eric Schmitt

Amy Waldman will talk about her new novel, The Submission (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 978-0374271565) on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Matt Long will be on The Daily Show for his book The Long Run: A new York City Firefighter's Triumphant Comeback from Crash Victim to elite Athlete (Rodale Books, 160529246X).

Authors on the Air August 15, 2011: Charles C. Mann, Ali Velshi

Charles C. Mann will be on the Leonard Lopate Show for his book 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created (Knopf, 978-0307265722).

Ali Velshi will be on The Daily Show for his upcoming book How to Speak Money: Becoming Fluent in the World's Most Important Language (Wiley, 978-1118114957).

Job Moves: August 15, 2011

Michael Bowles will join Random House of Canada Limited in the role of director, eBooks and eProduct development. Bowles was previously at Kobo, where he was manager, content development.

Authors on the Air August 12, 2011: Keith Devlin, Nina Darnton

Keith Devlin will be on Talk of the Nation/Science Friday on NPR discussing his new book Man of Numbers: Fibonacci's Arithmetic Revolution (Walker & Company, 978-0802778123).

Nina Darnton will be on The Leonard Lopate Show for her new thriller, An African Affair (Viking Adult, 978-0670022885).

Job Moves: August 12, 2011

Meghan Cassidy is joining the Free Press publicity department as senior publicist. Cassidy comes from Widmeyer Communications, where she was a senior account executive handling the public relations efforts for education initiatives and philanthropic organizations.

Job Moves: August 11, 2011

Brian Ulicky has been named publicity director at Penguin's Blue Rider Press. Ulickly arrives from Simon & Schuster, where he worked for a number of bestselling authors including Paula Deen and Deirdre Imus; he will start at Blue Rider on September 6.

Authors on the Air August 11, 2011: Harlan Cohen, Michael Wallis

Harlan Cohen, author of The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College (Sourcebooks, 978-1402253461) will be on The Gayle King Show.

The Daily Show will have Michael Wallis, to talk about his new book David Crockett: The Lion of the West (W. W. Norton & Company, 978-0393067583).

IBPA Announces New Board Members

The Independent Book Publishers Association has announced the following new members of the 2011-13 Board of Directors: Tom Doherty, Peter Goodman, MaryAnn F. Kohl, Christopher Robbins, and Janice Schnell.

Authors on the Air August 10, 2011: James Van Praagh, Jane Smiley

James Van Praagh, author of Growing Up in Heaven: The Eternal Connection Between Parent and Child (HarperOne, 978-0062024633) will be on Nightline.

Jane Smiley will talk about the underappreciated classic, Egil's Saga (Penguin Classics, 978-0140447705) on The Leonard Lopate Show.

Job Moves: August 10, 2011

At Perseus, Clay Farr is taking on a new role as v-p marketing. Farr has been with Perseus since 2004, and has handled accounts for Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com, Apple, and Google, among others.

Berger Retiring From S&S

Marcela Berger, who has been working in the rights department at Simon & Schuster for 35 years, is retiring. Berger is currently v-p and director of subsidiary rights. Berger licensed, and/or sold, a number of iconic titles, inculding Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's The Final Days and Dave Eggers's A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius; she will leave S&S at the end of the year and, at the Frankfurt Book Fair in October, will be honored by the publisher at a reception.

Authors on the Air August 9, 2011: Kate White, Jay Bahadur, John McWhorter

The author of the novel The Sixes (Harper, 978-0061576621) Kate White will be on the Today show.

The Daily Show will have the author of The Pirates of Somalia: Inside Their Hidden World (Pantheon, 978-0307379061), Jay Bahadur.

Job Moves: August 9, 2011

Steve Kleinedler has been named executive editor of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's reference group in the trade & reference division. Kleinedler was previously supervising editor.

Job Moves: August 8, 2011

Thomas Nelson, Inc. has announced that Carol Nygren will assume the role of executive v-p and managing director of the Thomas Nelson Live Events business in Plano, Texas. Nygren was most recently the senior v-p of Licensed Live Family Entertainment, Disney Theatrical Group (DTG).