Michael Goldsmith Named Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity at Little, Brown and Company
New York, NY (September 28, 2026) — Hachette Book Group (HBG) announced today that Michael Goldsmith has been named Vice President, Executive Director of Publicity at Little, Brown and Company beginning on October 13. The appointment was made by President and Publisher of Little, Brown and Company, Sally Kim, to whom Goldsmith will report.
In this new role, Goldsmith will lead the overall media strategy and public relations department to secure high-profile coverage for Little, Brown and Company’s front and backlist titles. Goldsmith will partner closely with the editorial, marketing, and sales departments to ensure a unified promotional push from acquisition through publication. Goldsmith will manage the Little, Brown and Company publicity team as they design publicity plans, high-impact launch strategies, and facilitate media relations to deliver top-tier press coverage.
Until recently, Goldsmith served as Vice President, Senior Director of Publicity for Doubleday and Pantheon, imprints of the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group at Penguin Random House, where he has worked since 2014. Golsmith led the publicity launch campaigns for a great number of bestselling and prizewinning books, across many different genres and categories, including Percival Everett’s James, Patrick Radden Keefe’s London Falling, and Colson Whitehead’s The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys. He has collaborated actively and extensively with partners across all facets of the national media, book club, and retail bookselling sectors, helping to bring widespread attention to a mix of acclaimed commercial and literary fiction and illustrious nonfiction titles.
About Little, Brown and Company
Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. Founded in 1837, Little, Brown has long been recognized as a publisher dedicated to delivering fiction of the highest quality and nonfiction of lasting significance. Our backlist proudly includes an abundance of New York Times bestsellers and winners of the Nobel Prize, Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award. Our storied list includes classics such as Little Women, Mythology, Brideshead Revisited, and The Catcher in the Rye, as well as modern classics such as Infinite Jest, The Tipping Point, The Historian, Room, Circe, and The Goldfinch. We are also the long-standing home to bestselling franchise authors such as James Patterson, Michael Connelly, Elin Hilderbrand, David Sedaris, and many others. Our wide-ranging and varied imprints include Little, Brown; Little, Brown Spark; Voracious; and Algonquin Books.
About Hachette Book Group:
Hachette Book Group (HBG) is a leading U.S. general-interest book publisher made up of dozens of esteemed imprints within the publishing groups Basic Books Group, Grand Central Publishing Group, Hachette Audio, Little, Brown and Company, Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, Orbit, Workman Publishing, and Running Press Group. We also provide custom distribution, fulfillment, and sales services to several publishing companies.
Our books and authors have received the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, Caldecott Medal, Newbery Medal, Booker Prize, Nobel Peace Prize, James Beard Award, and other major honors.
We are committed to diversity in our company and our publishing programs, and to fostering a culture of inclusion for all our employees and authors. We are proud to be part of Hachette Livre, the world’s third-largest trade and educational publisher.
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