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Adam Bellow Leaves Publishing for 'Entrepreneurial Venture'
The veteran editor and publisher is leaving the conservative imprint he founded at St. Martin's, All Points Books, for a currently unnamed new venture. With the move, APB will close in August 2020.
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Gallery Shuffles Publicity Department
Sally Marvin has been named director of publicity at Gallery, while Jennifer Robinson will shift back to working full-time on campaigns. Jean Anne Rose will leave the company.
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Cully to Retire from Baker & Taylor
B&T president David Cully, who has seen the company through a number of transitions since he came aboard in 2008, will retire at the end of August.
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Stambaugh to Lead Consolidated S&S Business Teams
Doug Stambaugh has been promoted to the newly created position of v-p and director of strategic operations and business development at Simon & Schuster.
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Changes at Macmillan Field Sales, Operations
Tim Greco has been hired and Holly Ruck and Malati Chavali have been named to new positions at Macmillan, where the sales team has been undergoing an overhaul of late.
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Promotions Hit HBG Sales Department Amid Restructuring
A slew of promotions came to Hachette Book Group's sales department this week that are related to a restructuring of the department due in part to the departure of some employees .
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Obituary: Kenneth Seeman Giniger
Author, editor, and publisher Kenneth Seeman Giniger died on April 26. He was 100.
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PW's Teicher Heading to 'Paris Review'; Boretz, Burnett Up at PW
Craig Teicher is headed to the 'Paris Review' on May 28, when Adam Boretz will replace him as director of special editorial projects and content director at 'Publishers Weekly.' Matia Burnett succeeds Boretz as editor of BookLife.
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Star Watch: Keeping Up with Helen Yentus
The top honoree in the PW Star Watch program’s first year was the art director at Riverhead Books, who is still pushing the limits of design and creativity to engage readers.
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Popelars Joining Tin House Books As Publisher
Craig Popelars is joining Tin House Books as publishers June 1. His appointment is part of Tin House's plan to expand its book publishing program.
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Carlton Books Restructures Under Welbeck Ownership
Following the departure of publishing director Kirsty Bradbury, Wayne Davies will join Carlton as group publisher, nonfiction, and Alex Allan, has been named interim group publisher, children’s.
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Schwenke Named Executive Director of AWP
Chloe Schwenke has been named executive director of the Association of Writers and Writing Programs after nearly a year serving in the role in an interim position.
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Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Appoints Dedicated Sales Manager for Christian Imprints
Shaila Muñoz joins PRHGE with more than a decade working in the publishing industry, most recently at HarperCollins Christian Publishers.
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Meet the Publicist: Linda Duggins
"Promote the book, promote the author, and sell the heck out of the book!" is Linda Duggins’s simple description of her responsibilities as senior director of publicity at Grand Central Publishing.
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Isaacson Named Editor-at-Large, Invests at Arcadia
Arcadia Publishing has announced that bestselling author Walter Isaacson has joined the company as editor-at-large and senior advisor and will also be an investor in the publisher.
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Hachette Promotes Four at Executive Level
Among a slew of promotions at Hachette Books, the imprint of Hachette Book Group has promoted four at the executive level.
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Macmillan Makes More Changes in Sales Division
Following an overhaul of its sales division late last month, Macmillan has instituted further changes to the division that include promotions and a number of account reassignments.
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Berrett-Koehler Names New CEO and Publisher
Berrett-Koehler's board of directors has selected David Marshall to be CEO/CFO of the company, while Johanna Vondeling was selected as president/publisher, effective May 1.
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Lonely Planet Appoints New CEO
Luis Cabrera, a partner with BCG Digital Ventures, has been named CEO of the travel publisher with a mandate to remake the Lonely Planet brand "as an omnichannel travel platform."
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Green Tapped to Head Book Unit at Abrams Artists
Longtime literary agent Simon Green has been tapped to head the book and publishing division of Abrams Artists Agency. Green was, until last Spring, an agent at CAA.



