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PW Star Watch 2024: Honorees
Meet the 35 honorees of the 10th anniversary edition of Star Watch, our annual program dedicated to recognizing and honoring rising talent in the publishing and bookselling businesses.
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Taylor Norman Named PW Star Watch Superstar of 2024
The executive editor at Holiday House/Neal Porter Books was honored for what she describes as a life-long ambition: working as a children’s book editor.
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Star Watch 2024: Publishing’s Brightest
Welcome to the 10th anniversary of Star Watch, our annual program dedicated to recognizing and honoring rising talent in the publishing and bookselling businesses.
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PW Star Watch 2024 Finalist: Nicole Lintemuth
The owner of the bookstore Bettie’s Pages in Lowell, Mich., is “an outspokenly progressive voice running a small business successfully in a conservative small town” and a tireless advocate for the freedom to read.
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PW Star Watch 2024 Finalist: Gabby Leporati
The Hachette Book Group publicist has been praised for her “leadership in promoting diversity and inclusivity, both within our organization and through her impactful campaigns.”
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PW Star Watch 2024 Finalist: Brian Hurley
After rising through the ranks at Callisto Media, where he served as publisher, Hurley headed to Sasquatch Books, where, as publishing director, he’s hard at work at taking Sasquatch’s Pacific Northwest vibe national.
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PW Star Watch 2024 Finalist: Asia Harden
In her three years at FSG, assistant editor Asia Harden has become a highly respected and well-liked member of the Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group editorial team.
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Mary Beth Jarrad Named Publisher at the New Press
The former marketing and sales director at NYU Press succeeds longtime publisher Ellen Adler, who retired at the end of September.
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Michelle Aielli Named Interim Executive Director at AWP
Aielli was most recently VP and publishing director of the now-dissolved Hachette Books imprint and has been on the AWP board since 2020.
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Wishing Good Luck to Stuart Applebaum
About 125 friends and colleagues gathered at the Iris restaurant in Manhattan on September 19 to wish Stuart Applebaum, one of publishing’s preeminent publicists and dean of the industry’s corporate communications director ranks, both a happy birthday and good luck after he steps away from Penguin Random House at the end of the month.
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Stuart Applebaum to Retire from Penguin Random House
In his 52-year career, Applebaum has served as publicity assistant, book publicist, Bantam publicity and public relations director, company spokesperson, chief communications officer, VP, SVP, and EVP. He will retire at the end of September.
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Tim O'Connell Takes the Reins at Saga Press
O’Connell comes to Saga from the flagship Simon & Schuster imprint, for which he will continue to acquire literary fiction and select nonfiction. Joe Monti, who founded Saga in 2015, has been promoted to VP, associate publisher, and editorial director.
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HarperCollins Moves Harper Wave to Morrow Group; Diana Baroni to Lead Harvest, Wave
On October 7, Baroni will move from Harmony Books and Rodale Books at Penguin Random House to lead Harvest and Harper Wave, both now housed under the Morrow Group, as SVP and publisher.
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Lee Jarit Named Global Head of Publisher and Partner Relations at Audible
Jarit has been promoted from head of Audiobook Creation Exchange and North America publisher partnerships, and will oversee the audio company’s global acquisitions strategy.
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Sean Manning Promoted to Publisher of Simon & Schuster Imprint
Manning joined S&S's flagship imprint in 2016 and was named VP and executive editor in 2022. He succeeds S&S CEO Jonathan Karp, who has held down the role since the 2022 departure of Dana Canedy.
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IDW, Boom! Veterans Head to Comics Publishing Startup
Former IDW editor-in-chief Jamie Rich and former Boom! president Filip Sablik have joined a new, as-yet-unnamed comic book and graphic novel publisher formed by film and television producer Eric Gitter.
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Amanda D’Acierno Named Global President of PRH Audio
The longtime president and publisher of Penguin Random House Audio Group in the U.S. will join the company’s global executive committee and add its global audiobook program to her purview.
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PublicAffairs Publisher Clive Priddle to Step Down
Priddle will depart PublicAffairs, as well as its Bold Type Books imprint, which he also oversees, next month. He joined PublicAffairs in 2003 and has served as its publisher since 2012.
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Leigh Marchant Joins HBG as Chief Marketing Officer
Marchant, who was previously director of marketing, strategy, and engagement at the Random House Group, will join Hachette Book Group on September 23. She succeeds Wibke Grutjen, who departed HBG this month to join Simon & Schuster.
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Gabrielle Gambrell to Succeed Sophie Cottrell as Head of HBG Comms
Cottrell, the longtime SVP of communications at Hachette Book Group, will depart the company at the end of August and be succeeded by Gambrell, who previously headed up communications at Amazon.
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