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At Penguin Random House, SVP, Director of Publishing Operations Sue Malone-Barber will retire at the end of the year. Felicia Frazier, SVP, Children’s and Educational Sales, is departing to launch a new venture, to be announced. At Tarcher Perigee, Editorial Director Sara Carder has departed and can be reached at sarakatecarder@gmail.com. Jordan Rodman, previously Director of Publicity at Avid Reader Press, will join Vintage Anchor as Senior Director of Publicity on October 31.
At Candlewick, Mary Marotta will join as SVP, Sales, North America on November 21. She was most recently SVP, Group Sales Director for Knopf Doubleday.
Jessica Turner joins Webtoon as SVP of Marketing. Previously she was VP of Brand Development and Marketing at Warner Bros. Entertainment.
Jennifer Weidman has retired as SVP and Deputy General Counsel at Simon & Schuster. On the advertising and promotion team for S&S imprint, Regula Hofmann, Ryan Raphael, and Mary Zadroga have joined as Designers; Zadroga supports the children’s division. Grace Rambo joins as Manager for Children’s Advertising and Paid Digital Media. At Avid Reader Press, David Kass joins as Senior Director of Publicity, beginning November 1; he was formerly VP, Executive Director of Publicity at Hilsinger-Mendelson. At Simon Element, Samantha Weiner, formerly Executive Editor at Abrams, joins as Executive Editor.
At HarperCollins Children’s Books, Katherine Tegen, VP and Publisher of Katherine Tegen Books, will retire in December. Andrea Flick-Nisbet has left her position as VP and Publisher of Harper Horizon. And Michael Maudlin, SVP and Executive Editor, is leaving HarperOne and can be contacted at mgmaudlin@gmail.com.
Josh Frankel, Founder and CEO of Z2 Comics, has left the company.
At 555 Comic, Rob Pereyda, lately Head of Anime, Editorial, and Publishing at Netflix, joins as Chief Strategy Officer and Chief Partnerships Officer.
Sydney Tillman joins Zibby Books as Publicity Director. She was previously Publicity Manager at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. Kristine Anderson has resigned as Trade Marketing Director.
At the University of South Carolina Press, Michael J. McGandy succeeds Richard Brown as Director. Most recently, McGandy was Editorial Director of Three Hills, the regional trade imprint of Cornell University Press.
Stephanie Lewis joins Insight Editions as Director, Business Analytics. Formerly she was Data Analytics Manager at Sourcebooks.
In agency news…Tara Gilbert, lately Associate Literary Agent at the Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency, joins KT Literary as Literary Agent. Kaitlyn Sanchez joins Bradford Literary Agency as Agent; previously she was Literary Agent at Context Literary. At Artistique International, Helen Biles, lately Creative Director at HarperCollins, joins as Global Manager.
At Little, Brown, Danielle Finnegan joins as Senior Marketing Manager, working across the Little, Brown and Mulholland lists. She was previously Assistant Marketing Manager at William Morrow.
Jenny Baumgartner, previously Senior Acquisitions Editor and Editorial Director at Nelson Books, joins FaithWords and Worthy Books as Executive Editor.
Deidra Purvis joins Free Spirit Publishing as Acquisitions Editor. Previously she was Director of Classroom Services at Mackin Educational Resources.
At Lake Union Publishing, Chantelle Aimée Osman joins as Editor. She was formerly Editor at Agora. Alexandra Torrealba, lately Editor at Vintage Español, joins AmazonCrossing as Editor.
Katie Vaughn, lately Marketing Coordinator at Riverhead, joins Bloomsbury as Assistant Marketing Manager.
At Sourcebooks, Maddie Herr joins the manufacturing team as Buyer II.