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People Round-Up, Early June 2023

Publishing Trends

Carlos Hernandez has joined PRH Grupo Editorial as director of sales, special markets, focusing on the Origen imprint. He previously held senior sales positions at Editorial Unilit , Grupo Nelson , and Harper Christian. VP, creative director at Harper Children’s Barbara Fitzsimmons is retiring on June 30.

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People Round-Up, Mid-August 2023

Publishing Trends

Jim Milliot , who has been editorial director of Publishers Weekly since 2014, will be retiring at the end of the year. Jonathan Segura has been named editorial director. David Adams has been appointed reviews director. At Doubleday , Director of interior design Maria Carella will retire.

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People Round-Up, Mid November 2023

Publishing Trends

Oliver Munday has returned to Doubleday , from Knopf , as creative director. Kelly Blair has been named senior art director for the Knopf Cooks line. At William Morrow Group , Melissa Esner , formerly deputy director of marketing at Crown , has joined as senior director of marketing.

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People Round-Up, Mid-April 2023

Publishing Trends

Brianna Skelly has joined Scholastic as editorial assistant. PROMOTIONS At Penguin Publishing Group, Tawanna Sullivan has been promoted to senior director and will continue to sell foreign and domestic rights for Berkley. Janel Brown to managing editor on the trade managing editorial team.

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People Round Up, Mid April, 2024

Publishing Trends

Crist will be reporting to Callie Garnett , Editorial Director, Adult Trade. She was previously director of sales marketing at Crown Publishing Group. At Tin House Books , Masie Cochran has been named publisher and editorial director, after serving as interim publisher since last October. Crist comes from W.W.

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People Round-Up, Early March 2023

Publishing Trends

Most recently she was Executive Director of global NGO Girl Be Heard. Nathan Rostron joins ZE Books as Interim Publishing and Marketing Director. He was most recently Editorial and Marketing Director at Restless Books. At Longleaf Services , Chris Granville joins as Director of Editorial, Design, and Production Services.

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People Round Up, Early April, 2024

Publishing Trends

At Random House , Sara Birmingham will join May 6 as executive editor, reporting to VP editor in chief Ben Greenburg and working closely with editorial director Caitlin McKenna , to expand the fiction list. Working at Lagardère for 54 years, Leroy had been chair and CEO of Hachette Livre from 2021 to 2023 as well.