At Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s trade and reference division, Josh Harwood has been promoted to national accounts director, based in New York, and Beth Ineson moves up to director of field sales & distribution clients (still based in Boston.) As has been expected, Carol Ann Duffy was named the UK’s poet laureate, the first woman to hold the position in 341 years. Along with a small stiped, the honor comes with a “butt of sack” — 600 bottles of sherry to stoke the muse — which the Guardian says she asked for upfront after hearing the previous laureate Andrew Motion never […]