Penguin Random House has begun a major re-organization under CEO Markus Dohle, who announced today the appointment of Madeline McIntosh as head of the newly created Penguin Publishing Group. McIntosh was U.S. President and Chief Operating Officer of PRH. The move also signals the end-of-year departure of Susan…

Markus Dohle, CEO of Pearson plc’s Penguin Random House,  announced this morning a changing of the guard at the publishing giant, marking the end of one era and the transition to another. Key in the statement is the appointment of Claire von Schilling to the position of senior v.p. and director of corporate…

Publishing veteran Rick Horgan, whose position as v.p. and executive editor at Crown was eliminated in May after nearly a decade with the the house, is joining Scribner with the same title. The hire, effective August 25, was announced this morning by Scribner senior v.p. and publisher Nan Graham. Scribner is an…

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The Penguin Press has tapped Scott Moyers as publisher, the imprint announced today, part of a push to expand its frontlist by 50% during the next year. Moyers was senior editor when Penguin launched in 2003. Since then, Penguin has had three of its titles win Pulitzer Prizes.

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Patrick Melton & Marcus Dunstan, whose credits include the fourth through seven Saw installments as well as the upcoming Hellraiser remake and the sequel Piranha 3 Double D, are moving into publishing with a Little Brown deal for their first novel, Blacklight. The book is the story of a ghost hunter private eye with…

Simon & Schuster today is about to market the heck out of O, its anonymously written and self-proclaimed provocative novel about Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign. <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-97614" title="o novel" src="https://s0.wp.com/wp-content/themes/vip/plugins/lazy-load-0.7/images/1x1.trans.…

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