Former vp, director of marketing innovation at Random House Peter McCarthy has launched McCarthy Digital, a marketing strategy and consultancy designed to help trade book publishers define and realize their business and marketing strategies.
Kristin Ostby has joined Simon & Schuster for Young Readers as editor. She was most recently a senior editor for Albert Whitman.
Simon Thorogood will join Headline on August 28 as publisher, non-fiction, reporting to Jonathan Taylor. He was most recently editorial director at Transworld imprint Bantam Press.