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Obituary: Talivaldis Stubis
Talivaldis Stubis, the prolific graphic designer and artist, died late last year at the age of 83, after a long battle with amyloidosis. Stubis illustrated nearly two dozen books over his long career, including Sir Alva and the Wicked Wizard by Otto Friedrich, Sam's Place by Lillian Moore, and many by the husband-and-wife team Rose Wyler and Gerald Ames...
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Lubeck Named Executive Director of Book Industry Study Group
Scott Lubeck, whose background includes melding print and technology, has been named the new executive director of the Book Industry Study Group. Lubeck was most recently most recently v-p of technology for Wolters Kluwer Health, Professional and Education.
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Steven Rosato Promoted to BEA Event Director
Following the December 9 promotion of former BookExpo America show manager Lance Fensterman to group v-p of Reed Exhibitions, show officials today announced Steve Rosato, who has been with the company for 15 years, will take over as event director of BEA.
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Katherine Paterson: Madam Ambassador
Today Newbery Medalist Katherine Paterson adds the title of National Ambassador for Young People's Literature to her long list of honors. In a ceremony at the Library of Congress this morning, Librarian of Congress James H. Billington will officially name Paterson — who succeeds the first children's ambassador, Jon Scieszka — to the position.
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Melanie Kroupa to Join Marshall Cavendish
Around this time last year, Melanie Kroupa, who had had her own imprint at FSG Books for Young Readers since 2000, was let go as part of Macmillan’s reorganization of its children’s division. But news came late yesterday that Kroupa will be joining Marshall Cavendish Children's Books as an editor-at-large on January 1, reporting to publisher Margery Cuyler.
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Putnam Books for Young Readers' Paulsen Gets Own Imprint
Putnam Books for Young Readers president and publisher Nancy Paulsen is launching an eponymous imprint, Nancy Paulsen Books, with the first titles landing in 2011. Paulsen, who has led the division for 15 years, plans to publish 12 to 15 picture books, middle grade and young adult novels annually. She will continue at the helm of Putnam Books for Young Readers until the company finds a successor—a process that has already begun.
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Crown Split
By dividing the Crown Publishing Group into two units, Random House CEO Markus Dohle is putting more structure into an operation that, as Dohle noted, had grown in a myriad of ways, often adding companies that had little in common: Watson-Guptill, Ten Speed Press, Monacelli Press, and Multnomah (just to name a few).
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Fensterman Promoted, Search on For Successor
BookExpo America manager Lance Fensterman has been promoted and Reed is looking for someone to take over his BEA duties.
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Ammer Resigns from Random House
After serving in a number of executive positions at Random House over the past 15 years, Bonnie Ammer has resigned as executive v-p, International Sales, Random House, Inc.
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Obituary: Waldo Hunt
Waldo (Wally) Hunt, considered by many to be the father of the modern pop-up book industry, died on November 6, three weeks shy of his 89th birthday. Through his three companies - Graphics International, Intervisual Communications and finally Intervisual Books - Hunt pioneered the creating, producing, and marketing of pop-up interactive books, and Hunt’s companies dominated the pop-up book business from the 1960’s until the late 1990's.
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Ratzlaff Founds Supreme Social Media
Former Rodale Books v-p Cindy Ratzlaff has started a new e-book and video publishing company, Supreme Social Media. The start-up, which Ratzlaff bills as “an online publishing and training company,” publishes e-books and downloadable videos. Its first release is a four book, 34-video series called FUNdamentals of Social Media, which includes lessons for beginners on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and SEO. It retails for $247 at the company's Web site.
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CIROBE Cofounder, Marshall Smith, Dies
Marshall Smith passed away on November 10 in Franklin, Ind., while returning from last weekend’s CIROBE (Chicago International Remainder and Overstock Exposition) to his bookstore, Key West Island Books.
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WEbook Launches AgentInBox to Connect Authors and Agents Online
WEbook has launched AgentInbox, a service that hopes to link submission-ready manuscripts to appropriate agents.
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Engstrom Named CEO of Reed Elsevier
The one-time Random House executive Erik Engstrom was named CEO of the professional publisher. In an update on business trends, Reed said the sale of its U.S. controlled circulation magazines and certain other magazines (including PW) "is in progress."
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James Tabbed to Run Harlequin’s E-book-only Carina Press
In a move that signifies the importance of women readers and the romance genre in driving e-book sales, romance publisher Harlequin is launching Carina Press, a digital-only publishing venture that will be run separately from Harlequin’s conventional publishing program.
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Halloween 2009: A Photo-Essay
In what has become a holiday tradition, several children's book publishers celebrated Halloween this past week in high style, and with some inventive book-inspired costumes. Here, we present party highlights—both spooky and silly—in a holiday tradition of our own: the post-Halloween photo-essay.
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Obituary: Esther Hautzig
Author Esther Hautzig died on Sunday, November 1, at the age of 79. She was best known for her 1968 work, The Endless Steppe: Growing Up in Siberia, an autobiographical account of her family’s life in Siberia during WWII, having being exiled there from Poland. She wrote several other books for children over a career that spanned five decades...
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Weiss to St. Martin's
Veteran publishing exec Dan Weiss has a new job as publisher at large at St. Martin’s, reporting to Matthew Shear, who is senior v-p and publisher of the house’s paperback and consumer reference groups. Weiss will work on developing content for Gen Y readers—“emerging adults who are navigating career, love and family in a 24/7 connected world,” explained Shear.
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McIntosh Named to New Spot at Random House
Madeline McIntosh is returning to Random House in a newly created high level post in which she will report directly to CEO Markus Dohle.
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Dyssegaard Joins Hyperion
Elisabeth Dyssegaard will join Hyperion November 16 as editor-in chief, replacing Will Balliett, who left earlier this fall to head Thames and Hudson.
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