Glamour announced three new hires this week. The executive editor of Worth magazine, Susan Goodall, jumps to executive managing editor at Glamour, where she will oversee the editorial schedule, fiscal planning and copy turnout. Suzanne Donaldson joins the mag as photo director after 13 years directing the Luhring Augustine Gallery and freelancing. Former Allure associate editor Laurel Naverson becomes senior beauty editor.
After a six-year stint, Peter Howarth is leaving Esquire to, what else, write a novel. The editor, who will leave in December, says he will also pursue a career in broadcasting. His marks the longest tenure of any so-called “laddie mag” editor in the U.K. , where he’ll be remembered for his decision to drop naked women from the Esquire cover.
Executive director, marketing services Priya Narang has been promoted to associate publisher, marketing at Vogue. Narang was the senior VP, media planning director at Dewitt Media prior to joining Vogue in 2000.
Those wacky folks at Maxim announced a “heaping helping of just desserts” for Steve Russell and Mike Hammer this week. In other words, the two are being promoted. Russell and Hammer become co-executive editors, while Laura Kelly Silverman joins the mag as managing editor. Russell began at Maxim as entertainment editor in 1998, most recently serving as senior and deputy editor. Hammer, who helped launch Maxim and Stuff, had been overseeing the company’s brand extensions. Silverman signs on from Vibe, where she was managing editor.
The Seventeen-YM wars continue as YM strikes a blow. Editor Christina Kelly has lured Seventeen deputy editor Tamara Glenny to YM as executive editor. Glenny also worked for In Style and Time Machine before joining Seventeen three years ago.

From NY Daily News
The revived Us Weekly will get new competition on its flank while fighting the giant People for more celeb-loving readers.
InTouch Weekly, set to launch late next month, is described by sources as a softer version of Us that also looks like the Wenner Media title.
InTouch executive editor Steve LeGrice confirmed the focus: "It'll be a positive and upbeat. We're not out to dig dirt."
Bauer Publishing USA, whose First for Women and Woman's World sell more than 1 million copies each on newsstands, plans million-plus printings of InTouch, at $1.99 a copy - a buck cheaper than Us and $1.30 less than People.
Joining the startup are Nadia Cohen, a show-biz writer with London's Daily Mail, and Dan Wakeford, news editor of the popular British celeb mag Heat. Richard Spencer, who ran Bauer's recently folded Soap Opera Update, is editor in chief.
InTouch will target women in their 20s and 30s with Hollywood news and brief, celeb-pegged articles about health, beauty and such.