Gillian Blake has been named executive editor at Henry Holt, replacing the recently departed Webb Younce at the Macmillan imprint. Ms. Blake’s hiring comes about seven months after severe cutbacks at HarperCollins left her out of work. Her appointment at Holt is just one of several green shoots to have sprouted in the publishing Read More
Less than a year after arriving there, Webb Younce is leaving his job as an editor at Henry Holt and moving to Germany. The 37-year-old Mr. Younce will be leaving for Frankfurt at the end of the month to become the English-language editor at the storied German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag.
“Oh, my Webb!” said Henry Read More
Webb Younce lost his job at Houghton Mifflin last February along with fellow editors Anton Mueller and Jane Rosenman. Mr. Mueller was the first to land on his feet, joining Bloomsbury USA as an editor the following month. Ms. Rosenman came in second when she started at Algonquin shortly after Labor Day.
Today, it Read More
Henry Holt and Company has a new editor-in-chief. According to Publishers Lunch, Marjorie Braman, formerly an executive editor at HarperCollins, will begin September 8th. Earlier this month, The Observer‘s Leon Neyfakh wondered "Who’s Editing Holt?" Soon enough, it will be Ms. Braman.
PL quotes Holt President Dan Farley as saying:
She is one Read More“I keep getting e-mails from people saying, ‘I’m putting together an anthology about early menopause,’ or ‘I’m doing an anthology about miscarriage,’ or another one about interfaith relationships,” said the writer Lynn Harris, whose essay “Someone Old, Someone Blue” pops up in the recently published Sex and Sensibility: 28 True Romances from the Lives of Read More
