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After 32 years at Knopf, Paul Bogaards, executive v-p, publicity & marketing, deputy publisher, is retiring, effective January 1. He plans, as he put it in a letter to colleagues, "to hang out a consulting shingle... I may be leaving the room, but I am not exiting the stage, and I hope some of us will be working together down the road."
As a result of Bogaards's impending departure, the publicity departments of Knopf, Doubleday and Pantheon-Schocken are being centralized and will be headed by Todd Doughty, who is being promoted to the newly created role of senior v-p, publicity and communications, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, effective immediately. He will serve as spokesperson for the Group and continue his title publicity work.
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Now reporting to Doughty are Erinn Hartman, who has been promoted to v-p, executive director of publicity and will run the Knopf publicity department; Michiko Clark, who has been promoted to senior director of publicity and will run the Pantheon publicity department; Gabrielle Brooks, v-p, director, Knopf promotion & serial rights; Michael Goldsmith, Doubleday senior director of publicity; Kim Thornton Ingenito, executive agent director, Speakers Bureau; and publicity assistant Olivia Decker. Now reporting to Erinn Hartman is Nicholas Latimer, v-p, Knopf senior director of publicity.
Maya Mavjee, president and publisher of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, said, "In a rapidly changing bookselling landscape, publicity remains a constant to the success of our writers and their books. Whether launching a debut or bestselling author, a strong publicity department strives to reach as wide a readership as possible via our ever-expanding media and bookselling partners. I want to emphasize that our Knopf, Doubleday, and Pantheon-Schocken imprints will maintain their respective directors and individual departments, now collectively under one umbrella."
Reagan Arthur, executive v-p, publisher, Knopf, called Bogaards "an integral part" of Knopf with an "unparalleled impact on scores of bestselling and now-classic books.... His passion, creativity, and savvy media instincts have not only burnished the Knopf ethos but also shaped the reading and bookselling world at large."
She noted that occasionally he has edited titles, and recently finished work on Chip McGrath's memoir, The Summer Friend. "He has as well always kept an eye trained towards the future of publishing," she continued. "His founding of the Knopf Speakers Bureau led to the development of this important business companywide; he also embraced technologies and tools over the years to expand and find new paths to wider readership. Paul has mentored an entire generation of publicists, many of whom have gone on to remarkable careers of their own, many of whom make up the powerhouse team of publicists under his leadership here now. His loyalty to his colleagues is legendary."
She said she would "be forever grateful for his support, counsel, and wisdom since I arrived at Knopf last year. A singular figure with a wicked wit, limitless talent, expansive vision, and boundless love of reading, Paul will be sorely missed."
Bogaards said he doubted that "my stepping away will come as surprise to many of you. After all, I'm living in a cabin in the woods, where I spend late afternoons foraging for mushrooms and splitting wood. Also: I recently purchased a tractor. If you're looking for signs, start there." But he emphasized, "If you're wondering about what's next for your truly, it's not farming. It's more of what I've been doing, just a little less of it."
Hired by Sonny Mehta in 1989, he said, "I am enormously proud of my work here. No one has had a better job, or more fun doing it. I've had two of the best bosses I could ever hope for in Sonny and Reagan. I'm also grateful to Madeline [McIntosh] and Maya and Reagan for allowing me to become a remote employee before working remotely was officially a thing."