Publishing Vets Join New Venture

By Carmen 

PW Daily reports on a most dizzying case of publishing musical chairs. Skyhorse Publishing, founded in September 2006 by Tony Lyons (formerly of Lyons Press and Globe Pequot Press) has just hired two veterans of the publishing world: Herman Graf, co-founder of the just-closed Carroll & Graf, and Trish Hoard, cofounder and associate publisher of Shoemaker & Hoard, now part of the new venture Winton, Shoemaker & Co. Graf will be an acquiring editor and consultant; Hoard’s new role is as managing editor. And now I believe the music has started up once more…