Jacob Lewis Named Publishing Director for Crown, Hogarth & Broadway Books

By Maryann Yin 

A number of publishing professionals made job moves this week.

Over at the Crown Publishing Group, Jacob Lewis will leave his post as Figment CEO to work as vice president and publishing director for Crown, Hogarth and Broadway Books.

He will report to senior vice president and publisher Molly Stern.

Emily Krump will now serve as editor at HarperCollins’ General Books Group. Some of the authors she has worked with include James BarneyNicole Galland, and Raymond E. Feist.

Michelle Nagler has been named the associate publishing director of Random House and Golden Books group. Throughout Nagler’s career in publishing, she has held positions at Bloomsbury Children’s Books, Simon & Schuster’s Simon Pulse imprint and Scholastic.