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July 6, 2016
By Sarah Weinman

At Scribner, Shannon Welch has been promoted to executive editor.

At Hannigan Salky Getzler Agency, Danielle Burby has been promoted to agent and foreign rights manager.

Paula Canal will join Indent Literary Agency as a literary agent and foreign rights director. She has spent the past 17 years as foreign rights manager at Anagrama and will continue to handle all foreign rights for the company from her post at Indent.

At New World Library, Jason Gardner has been promoted to executive editor.

At McGraw-Hill Professional, Cheryl Ringer has been promoted to editor, business group.

At the UK’s Folio Prize, executive director since the launch in 2013 Suzy Lucas is stepping down from her job, and will join the Folio Prize Foundation board. Former associate publisher at Fourth Estate and William Collins Minna Fry joins the organization as director of development.

At Penguin Random House UK, international sales director for group companies Rob Waddington has been given responsibility for export sales alongside his existing role. Group sales director Mike Symons says in the announcement, “The time is now right to bring both our group and export teams under a single leadership with visibility of our international markets as a whole.” International sales director (export) Dean Chance will leave the company on July 15. (He is also managing director Penguin Germany and president Penguin Spain and Italy.)

Imprints
In Germany, Amazon Publishing is adding an imprint for crime novels and thrillers by German authors, Edition M, launching with 5 titles over the next three months.

Quarto has acquired the assets of Whitehorse Press. Their two dozen backlist titles will be published under the Motorbooks imprint going forward.

Filed Under: Agency News, Free, International News, New Imprints, Personnel

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