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Madeline McIntosh is stepping down as CEO of Penguin Random House US. At Random House Group, Angelin Adams, Editorial Director, Design & Culture, adds the title of Editorial Director, Potter Gift. She succeeds the recently-retired Lindley Boegehold. At Knopf, Quynh Do joins as Senior Editor. Most recently she was Senior Editor at Zando. Jessica Kastner Keene, formerly Publicist at Rowman & Littlefield, joins WaterBrook Multnomah as Publicity Manager. At Penguin Press, Jamie Lescht joins as Senior Publicist; she was previously Publicist at William Morrow.
Lyssa Keusch joins Grand Central as VP, Executive Editor. Previously she was Executive Editor at William Morrow.
At Ingram Library Services, Carolyn Morris returns as VP, succeeding Pamela Smith. Most recently she was Director of Content Solutions at SirsiDynix. William Daniel, formerly Chief Technology Officer at Intersoft Data Labs, joins Ingram Content Group as VP of Application Services.
Barbara Cohen joins International Literary Properties as VP, Legal and Business Affairs, North America. Most recently she was VP and General Counsel at Oxford University Press.
The board of directors for Coffee House Press have chosen consultant Linda Ewing as Interim Executive Director and will now begin a search for a permanent executive director and publisher.
Sarah Falter joins Morrow Group as Director of Publicity. She was previously Director of Publicity at HarperCollins Christian Publishing. Lindsey Kennedy, lately Assistant Director of Publicity at Random House, joins as Associate Director of Publicity. And Lara Baez, previously Communications Manager at Twitter, joins as Marketing and Publicity Manager.
At Scholastic, Rachel Schwartz has been named Director of Cross Channel Marketing. She was previously Director of Program and Product Marketing at Scholastic Book Fairs.
Lia Brown joins Kappa Publishing as Editorial Director; formerly she was Senior Executive Editor of the children’s division at Callisto Media.
At Tuttle Publishing, Laura J. Ferguson joins as Sales and Marketing Director. Previously she was Director of Special Sales at Abrams.
Sarah McEachern joins Deep Vellum and Dalkey Archive Press as Rights Director. Formerly she was Senior Foreign Agent at Trident Media Group.
Kristen Luby, formerly Senior Marketing Manager, School & Library at Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, joins Abrams as Associate Director, School & Library Marketing.
In agency news…Madeline Shellhouse, formerly International Rights Agent at Folio Literary Management, joins Ultra Literary as Foreign Rights Director. John Ash, lately of London’s PEW Literary, joins Creative Artists Agency as Literary Agent. At Curtis Brown, Alexandra Franklin joins as Associate Agent, Dramatic Rights; she was previously Associate Agent at Vicky Bijur Literary Agency. At KT Literary, Hannah Fergesen rejoins as Foreign Rights Manager. At the CAT Agency, Aliza R. Hoover joins as Associate Agent; she was previously Art Coordinator Associate at Candlewick Press. And in scouting news, Georgia Panitch joins KF Literary Scouting as International Literary Scout. She was previously International Scout at Mary Anne Thompson Associates.
James Melia will join Gallery as Executive Editor on March 6. Previously he was Executive Editor at Holt. Alison Hinchcliffe, lately Publicity Manager at William Morrow, joins Atria as Senior Publicity Manager.
Richard Narramore, previously Executive Editor at Wiley, joins Stanford University Press as Executive Editor.
At Zando, Sarah Ried, formerly Editor at HarperCollins, joins as Senior Editor.
At ReaderLink Distribution Services, Mary McGee, previously Lead Operations Specialist at Cepheid, joins as Senior Inventory Manager. Cyndee Pietrus joins as Manager of Supply Planning. Eduardo Munoz joins as Sales Support Coordinator. Amelia Meyer joins as Merchandise Presentation Specialist. And Arielle Amante joins as Assistant Product Manager.
Benny Sisson, lately Marketing Coordinator at HarperCollins Children’s, joins the University of Washington Press as Marketing Manager.
At Melville House, Yezanira Venecia joins as Editor. She was previously Assistant Editor at Soho Press.
Allison Hunter Hill, formerly Editor at Starry Forest Books, joins Nosy Crow‘s US team as Editor, based in Boston.
At Graywolf, Caelan Ernest Nardone joins as Publicist. Most recently they were Director of Publicity at Nightboat Books.
Yun Shen joins Open Road Integrated Media as Business and Growth Analyst.
At Holt, Micaela Carr joins as Associate Editor.
At Northwest Review, Meakin Armstrong joins as Editor-at-Large, acquiring two to four novellas a year. In the past he served as Senior Fiction Editor for Guernica Magazine.
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