People Round Up, Early January, 2024

PEOPLE

Circana has announced organizational changes and, as a result, president U.S. Books, Jonathan Stolper, will depart Circana and BookScan after 13 years heading the business. He may be reached at jsto1984@gmail.com Starting February 1st, longtime Client Development Executive Director David Walter will lead the US Books business under Circana’s Entertainment Sector.

Janice Audet, formerly executive editor at Basic Books of Hachette Book Group, has joined The MIT Press as editorial director.

At Berret-Koehler Publishers, Praveen Madan joins as CEO and publisher. He was previously CEO at Kepler’s Books. He succeeds David Marshall, who is retiring after 17 years at the company.

Jenny Davis has been named creative director, leading the newly created illustrated design team, at the Random House Publishing Group. She will report to SVP, creative director Paolo Pepe. Sonia Persad is named associate art director for the newly created illustrative design team, WaterBrook & Multnomah Children’s Publishing Program and Bones Leopard is senior designer for Inklore.

At HarperCollins, Gabriella Mongelli, formerly editor at Putnam, has joined Park Row Books as senior editor.

At Blackstone Publishing, Mike Heuer has joined as national sales manager.

At Macmillan Publishers, Susannah Noel has joined as production editor for managing editorial. Bhaskaran Mani has joined as lead data engineer. Michael Benton has joined as business systems analyst for platform development. Cassidy Leyendecker has joined Macmillan Publishers as author development and backlist manager.

Allison Serrell, formerly senior editor at Wonderwell Press has joined PA Press as senior editor.

Julie Jayne, associate publisher, has left Regnery Publishing.

Matthew Hafner has joined ReaderLink Distribution Services as district operations auditor. Ashley Herrell has joined as space and merchandise planner. Amaya Sood has joined as omni channel sales support.

At Dreamscape Media, Xavier Dusseau has joined as a metadata specialist for video operations.

Jayashree’ Anderson, formerly gift & toy buyer at Red Balloon Bookshop, has joined Consortium as sales & support representative.

At Highlights, Chris Bauerle has joined as VP and general manager of books and consumer products

In Agency News…

Elizabeth Pratt, formerly assistant at Park & Fine, has joined Trellis Literary Management as editorial associate. Tori Clayton, formerly subsidiary rights agent at the Jane Rotrosen Agency, has joined Trellis Literary Management as subsidiary rights and operations associate.

At Franklin & Siegal Associates, Brianna Zimmerman has joined as a literary scout. Dorian Randall has been promoted to senior literary scout.

PROMOTIONS

At Penguin Random House, Isabel DaSilva has been promoted to senior marketing manager at Dutton. Grace Layer has been promoted to associate editor at Dutton. Rachel Ake has been promoted to associate art director at Modern Library. Regina Flath has been promoted to senior art director at Del Rey. Joe Perez has been promoted to VP and executive art director at Harmony and Rodale. Greg Mollica has been promoted to VP and executive art director at Random House and One World. Donna Cheng has been promoted to art director at Dial and Hogarth.

At Kokila, Namrata Tripathi has been promoted to president and publisher, effective immediately. Previously, Tripathi was Kokila’s SVP and publisher. Joanna Cárdenas has been promoted to associate publisher.

At Crown Publishing Group, Michelle Giuseffi has been promoted to associate director. Anahita Padmanabhan has been promoted to social media marketing manager. At Putnam Books, Brennin Cummings has been promoted to assistant director of marketing and Tarini Sipahimalani and Aranya Jain have been promoted to assistant editor

At Macmillan Publishers, Offauna Goodman has been promoted to production manager.

At Harlequin, Allison Lyons has been promoted to senior editor of Harlequin Romantic Suspense. Stephanie Doig has been promoted to senior editor at Carina Press.

At Candlewick Press, Sofi Elbadawi has been promoted to marketing coordinator.

At Lee & Low Books, Elise McMullen-Ciotti has been promoted to senior editor at Lee & Low and Stephanie Frescas Macías has been promoted to assistant editor. Jennifer Khawam has been promoted to marketing coordinator and Shaughnessy Miller has been promoted to assistant marketing manager at Lee & Low.

At the University of North Carolina Press, Thomas Bedenbaugh and Carol Seigler are being promoted to assistant editor.

Hannah Boardman has been promoted to associate publicist at TvS Media Group.

At Dreamscape Media, Erick Black has been promoted to director of production. Ben Coy has been promoted to production manager. Raj Mavi has been promoted to senior staff accountant. Emily Solomon has been promoted to editorial associate. Lauren Smetzer has been promoted to marketing specialist.

DULY NOTED

Matthew Flamm, reporter and poet, died January 2 at age 70 after a battle with brain cancer. His work included writing for Crain’s New York Business, the New York Post, the New York Observer and the New Yorker.

EVENTS

January 11-14

Key West Literary Seminar

Key West, FL

January 12-14

Portland Fan Expo

Portland, OR

January 13-21

Çukurova Book Fair

Adana, Turkey

New York, NY

[A note on the site states: Digital Book World 2024, originally scheduled for January 15-17 in New York City, has been postponed indefinitely.]