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Sr. Editor Alexandra Copper at Simon & Schuster has moved over to HarperCollins as executive editor position.  She will be working on YA and middle-grade novels and some picture books.

At HMH Children’s, Mary Wilcox has been promoted to the newly-created position of vp, editor in chief.  In addition,  Adah Nuchi has been promoted to associate editor.

Christa Heschke has been promoted to agent within the children’s department, handling all foreign, domestic and subsidiary rights for children’s clients while actively building her own list.

At Penguin, Katherine Tiernan McCahill has been promoted to assistant director of the digital products group.

In Canada, former senior executives at D&M Publishers Chris Labonte, Peter Cocking and Richard Nadeau have founded Figure1 Publishing, devoted to books in the art & architecture, food & wine, lifestyle, illustrated history and business book categories. The reason I point this out is because of this quote: “Our goal is to become the premier publisher of high quality illustrated books in the country.” Think Chronicle Books, or Rizzoli.” Even though they are not invloved in children’s books, it might be a good place for illustrators to query for work. Cocking has been named creative director.

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Hazel Mitchel who was featured on Illustrator Saturday http://wp.me/pss2W-2pf 

has a new picture book “1, 2, 3, By the Sea” is available to buy on line.

Hazel is having a book give-a-way, too.  Use this link for a chance to win: http://tinyurl.com/c8donqt

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Shannon Hitchcock debut YA book The Ballad of Jesse Pearl came out in February – Published by namelos.

www.shannonhitchcock.com

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If you follow this blog and would like to announce a success or book coming out, please let me know.  If you sent me an e-mail and I missed it, please remind me.  I get hundreds of e-mails everyday.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy

For those of you who may feel like you missed your chance to come to the conference and snag a one-on-one critique with an agent, I have a ground floor opportunity for you. 

I was on the phone today with Edward Necarslumer Director of the Children’s Literary Department at McIntosh & Otis.  He mentioned that Christa Heschke, his assistant for the last two years, is about to step out of the Necarslumer shadow and take on clients of her own.  Of course, I was interested in seeing how we could work together to get some of our attendees work in front of her.  This is what we came up with:

Christa will attend the June 3rd to 5th conference and do critiques.  She will not accept general submissions afterwards, like the rest of the faculty, but she is looking to start her client list.  That’s why I said it is a ground floor opportunity.  With Edward behind her, I have no doubts she will be a great future agent.  I met her a while ago and she’s very nice.  I know you will like her, too.

So if you are late to the party or if you just thought you couldn’t meet the deadline or looking for that ground floor opportunity, here’s your chance to make it happen.  I’m making it easy for you, all you have to do is e-mail me to secure a spot, mail your check and e-mail your submission by May 10th.  You save some money, too.  The critique price is only $55.

If you are interested, contact me.  Some of her spots have already been snatched up.  Sorry, I don’t have a picture of Christa, but I’ll get one.

Here’s a little bit about Christa:

Christa Heschke graduated from Binghamton University with a major in English and a minor in Anthropology.  She started in publishing as an intern at both Writers House and Sterling Lord Literistic, where she learned about and fell in love with the agency side of publishing.  Christa became Edward Necarsulmer IV’s assistant at McIntosh and Otis, Inc. in the Children’s Literature Department in 2009. Within Children’s,  Christa is interested in fantasy, historical fiction, paranormal romance, horror, dystopian, humor and the occasional chick lit title, but is open to most any genre Picture Book to Young Adult.

Talk tomorrow,

Kathy