Kathleen Schmidt is joining Weinstein Books as publicity director. She will begin to make the transition over the next month and will be a full-time member of the press, a partnership between Perseus Books Group and the Weinstein Company, on July 1.
She most recently ran KMS Public Relations, an independent freelance publicity firm, and before that was v-p and director of publicity at Atria Books. Before that, she was director of publicity at Dutton and Gotham Books and a publicist at Pocket Books.
At Weinstein Books, she will create and implement digital and traditional publicity campaigns for all hardcover, e-books, trade paper original and trade paper reprint titles on the list and work with publishing director Georgina Levitt and editorial director Amanda Murray.