At Penguin USA, Jacqueline Fischetti has been appointed to the new position of director of content development, international. She will “spearhead the launch of an international expansion program that will introduce English-language books to the Latin American market, targeting adult and young adult readers who are at various stages of learning English.” She has been director of the Penguin Speakers Bureau since 2006, and joined Penguin Group in 1999.
In yesterday’s piece on the book deal between the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission and Little, Brown, the quote about the publisher being selected for “intangibles” comes from the commission’s vice chairman and former congressman Bill Thomas.