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August 28, 2012
By Sarah Weinman

Annie Stone has joined Harlequin Teen as associate editor. Previously she was an assistant editor at Harper.

Kristina Aven has joined Little, Brown Children’s as a publicist. She was at Penguin Children’s. Ann Dye will join Little, the unit as associate director, brand marketing for James Patterson. She was most recently a marketing manager at Disney Publishing Worldwide.

At Canada’s Kids Can Press, managing editor Semareh Al-Hillal has been promoted to the new position of associate publisher,  responsible for the day-to-day operations of the editorial, editorial services and design departments, reporting to acting publisher Lisa Lyons. Jennifer Grimbleby has been promoted to production editor; DoEun Kwon is now production editor; Adrienne Tang moves over to serve as rights manager; Danielle Mulhall has been promoted to cross media specialist, responsible for e-book production and distribution and online marketing; and Mike Reis rejoins the company as graphic designer; reporting to Art Director Marie Bartholomew.

Cengage’s Gale has sold Sleeping Bear Press to Minnesota-based Cherry Lake Publishing. Sleeping Bear and their staff of 10 will remain in their Ann Arbor, MI offices.

Chinese academic publisher Commercial Press has entered into a content-sharing agreement with German publishing house De Gruyter, with the two companies set to produce translations of the other’s titles. The agreement is for print and digital versions.

Filed Under: Distribution, Free, International News, Personnel

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