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People Round Up, Early April, 2024

Publishing Trends

John Sicilliano is now executive editor for Viking and Penguin Life , in addition to his current title of executive editor for Penguin Classics and Penguin Books. She was previously director of Belknap Publishing at Harvard University Press. At Hachette Book Group , Pierre Leroy is retiring as deputy chief executive officer.

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People Round Up, Early February, 2024

Publishing Trends

Macmillan president, sales & marketing, Jennifer Gonzalez , has been named SVP publisher of Sourebooks children’s books. Yaniv Soha has joined Atria Books and Simon & Schuster as executive editor. At Penguin Random House ’s imprint, Portfolio , Casey Ebro joins as executive editor, reporting to Niki Papadopoulos.

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People Round-Up, Early September 2023

Publishing Trends

PEOPLE Alison Lazarus , executive VP, director of sales, is retiring and will leave Hachette Book Group next month. Lauren Monaco will be joining Hachette on October 2 as executive VP, director of sales. President and publisher of HarperCollins Children’s Books , Suzanne Murphy will leave the publisher at the end of the month.

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People Round-Up, Mid-April 2023

Publishing Trends

At Random House Children’s Books, Joey Ho has been promoted to publicist. She was most recently publicity manager at Interlink Books. Ritsuko Okumura has been promoted to senior director and will sell foreign rights for Putnam, Avery, and Portfolio, reporting to Khan. John Aardema has been promoted to senior art director.

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People Round-Up, Early November 2022

Publishing Trends

Andrea Fleck-Nisbet , founding VP and Publisher of Harper Horizon , will succeed Angela Bole as CEO of the Independent Book Publishers Association. Jordan Rodman has been named Senior Director of Publicity for Vintage Anchor. Most recently she was Director of Publicity at Avid Reader Press.

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People Round-Up, Mid-January 2023

Publishing Trends

At Penguin Random House , Vaishali Nayak , previously Senior Marketing Manager at HarperCollins Children’s Books , joins as Assistant Director of Brand Marketing. Sara Bershtel , previously SVP, Publisher at Metropolitan Books , joins Penguin Press as Editor-at-Large. John Snyder joins PR by the Book as Assistant Publicist.

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People Round-Up, Early March 2023

Publishing Trends

Chiwoniso Kaitano joins MacDowell as Executive Director, succeeding Interim Director Philip Himberg. Most recently she was Executive Director of global NGO Girl Be Heard. Nathan Rostron joins ZE Books as Interim Publishing and Marketing Director. Rucker was most recently Sales Director at Gibbs Smith.