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New Realms of Fantasy art guidelines, and a promotion
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Realms of Fantasy's Assistant Editor Douglas Cohen is taking on new work as the magazines Art Director and Nonfiction Editor. He's issued new guidelines for art submission...

Kate Wilson leaving Scholastic UK
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Group Managing Director Kate Wilson is voluntarily leaving Scholastic UK. Alan Hurcombe will replace her as acting...

Promotion and a new hire at Circlet Press
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At Circlet Press, Bethany Zaiatz has been promoted to Assistant Editor, and Jennifer Williams is the new Editorial Assistant...

Publishers Weekly needs romance reviewers
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Rose Fox is looking to take on some new reviewers for mass market romance of all kinds, as well as sf/f/h novels...

Marty Halpern joins Fantastic Books as a freelance acquisitions editor
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Marty Halpern has joined Warren Lapine's Wilder Publications (specifically, the genre imprint Fantastic Books) as a freelance acquisitions editor. Halpern is a two-time World Fantasy Award nominee...

VIZ Media launching Haikasoru to translate Japanese sf novels into English
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Editor Nick Mamatas will head up VIZ's new imprint, Haikasoru, which will publish English-language translations of Japanese sf novels starting with...

DC, Image, and Diamond announce layoffs
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DC Comics, Top Cow Productions, and Diamond Comics Distributors all announce layoffs...

Warren Lapine returns to sf with magazine, books, and checks
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After two years of silence, the former publisher of DNA Publications is returning to the speculative fiction fields, launching a magazine and a book line, while covering all the debts of the old company...

In Random House reorganization, Scott Shannon is promoted
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Scott Shannon has been promoted to Vice President, Publisher for Del Rey and Spectra...

Agent Stephen Barbara moves from DMLA to Foundry
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Agent and contracts director Stephen Barbara is leaving the Donald Maass Literary Agency for Foundry Literary + Media, where he'll be a full-time agent...

Editor Ann Harris Retiring
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The woman who edited The Exorcist and The Thorn Birds is retiring after 60 years in the industry...

Simon & Schuster, too, makes big changes
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Simon & Schuster is cutting 35 positions from all across the company; another victim of bad economic times...

Random House Shake Up
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Senior executives Irwyn Applebaum and Steve Rubin are leaving Random House as the publishing groups they headed are being divided and moved under other groups within the colossal publishing house...

Angry Robot hires Lee Harris as Assistant Editor
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Recently announced HarperCollins UK imprint Angry Robot has hired Lee Harris (of Hub Magazine) as Assistant Editor...

Agents Lori Perkins and Jenny Rappaport split
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Agent Jenny Rappaport has amicable left the L. Perkins Agency to start her own Rappaport Agency...

Lauri Hornik now directing Dutton Children's
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Lauri Hornik replaces Stephanie Owens Lurie as President and Publisher of Dutton Children's Books...

John Klima takes on Anne Zanoni to assist with Electric Velocipede
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Freelance copyeditor/proofreader Anne Zanoni is going to take over much of the mechanical work at the small press 'zine to free up Editor John Klima's time for editing...

Jennifer Hunt promoted to Editorial Director at Little, Brown BfYR
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Jennifer Hunt has been promoted to Editorial Director of Little, Brown Books for Young Readers...

Hachette creating new division to house sf/f and manga/graphic novels
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Hachette is creating a new division, Orbit, to house the sf/f imprint Orbit and the manga/graphic novel imprint Yen Press. Under the direction of Orbit Publisher Tim Holman...

Art Director Dave Caplan moves to Little, Brown
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Dave Caplan moved from HarperCollins Children's, where he was art director, to Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, where he is now senior art director...

HarperCollins UK hires Marc Gascoigne to launch new sf imprint
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Angry Robot will launch in July 2009, produced sf and fantasy books on paper and electronically...

Devi Pillai promoted to Senior Editor at Orbit
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Devi Pillair has been promoted to Senior Editor at Orbit Books, having been with the firm since the US office opened two years ago...

Francesco Sedita moves from Scholastic to Grosset & Dunlap
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Francesco Sedita, until recently the executive creative director at Scholastic, is the new vice president and publisher of Grosset & Dunlap...

Cynthia DiTiberio promoted at HarperOne
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Cynthia DiTiberio was promoted from associate editor to editor at HarperOne. She's worked on The Chronicles of Narnia movie tie-in projects.

Jetse de Vries leaves Interzone editorial team
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After more than four years as a member of the editorial team of British small press magazine Interzone, Jetse de Vries abruptly announced his departure, citing artistic differences...
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