Minchin to leave Penguin for Riot

Penguin Children’s publicity director Adele Minchin is to leave Penguin after 14 years to join PR agency Riot Communications as associate director. At Penguin, Minchin devised PR campaigns for the likes of Eoin Colfer, Meg Rosoff, Emma Thompson and Madonna, as well as helping mastermind digital campaigns including Puffin Virtually Live and peer-to-peer teen website Spinebreakers. Minchin also worked on successful campaigns such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Peter Rabbit, Percy Jackson and Roald Dahl. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2014-11-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Futers to edit Penguin Poetry list

Penguin Press is reviving a Penguin Poetry list, headed up by a full time poetry editor. Donald Futers, who joined Penguin in 2012, will become editor of the list, with Claudia Rankine's Citizen: An American Lyric becoming his first acquisition. Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Sauerwine to take up new Penguin sales role

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-06 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Horobin to leave Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster’s group sales, marketing and publicity director James Horobin is to leave the company at the end of this week. The publisher said Horobin, who joined the company in 2010, intended to “seek challenges in his career outside of Simon & Schuster.” His departure is the... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-03-05 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Communist Manifesto sales Penguin bargain little black classics

Ultra-cheap Little Black Classics, celebrating imprint’s 80th birthday, sell 70,000 copies in first week – with Marx and Engels the favourite so farMore than 1,700 bargain copies of The Communist Manifesto have sold in the last week, in the form of an 80p edition of Karl Marx and Friedrich... Continue reading at The Guardian

[ The Guardian | 2015-03-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Pearson Earns £69M in 2014 from Penguin Random Stake

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[ Publishers Weekly | 2015-02-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Buswell leaves role at RH Children’s

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[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Penguin Little Black Classics review – affordable snippets of great literature

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[ The Guardian | 2015-02-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
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[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
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Mike Abbott is leaving Penguin Random House as a result of the publisher's international sales team restructure. Abbott has been in the Random House UK international team for 11 years, working first as group sales and marketing director for Europe, and later as group sales and marketing... Continue reading at The Bookseller

[ The Bookseller | 2015-02-12 00:00:00 UTC ]
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