At Penguin Books, Victoria Savanh has been promoted to assistant editor.
At BlueBottleBiz, Mike Conner has been promoted to chief evangelist, where he will spearhead the company’s member adoption while overseeing his pre-existing sales team.
At Westwood Creative Artists, Stephanie Thompson has joined as office manager and literary assistant to Michael Levine. In addition, Jake Babad has left the agency to attend law school.
Crystal McCoy has joined little bee books as senior publicist. She was senior account executive at B/HI.
Opening sales
Nielsen Bookscan announced that UK print sales for Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in its first seven days on-sale were 847,886 units. (Little Brown UK had tabulated sales of over 680,000 print copies in the first three days.)