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August 1, 2018
By Erin Somers

Nicky Guerreiro has been promoted to associate editor at Little, Brown.

At Berkley, Jessica Brock has been promoted to senior publicist and digital media strategist.

Savannah D’Amico has joined DK as library-wholesale national account manager. She previously worked for Scholastic.

The Association of University Presses has hired Annette Windhorn in the new role of external communications manager. She was previously with the Organization of American Historians, where she served as the program coordinator for the Distinguished Lectureship Program. Angelica DeVoe has joined as program coordinator; she was previously with WebMD and the Children’s Aid Society. Kate Kolendo takes the newly-developed communications program manager position; she was previously project manager and PROSE Award administrator for the professional & scholarly publishing division of the Association of American Publishers. Kim Miller was promoted to business manager, while Susan Patton moves up to membership & events director. Brenna McLaughlin has taken on the new title of research & communications director, responsible for the expanded communications team at AUPresses.

Bookselling
Diesel has been “unable to find a buyer to steward” their Larkspur, CA store (in Marin County) “into the future.” So they “will no longer being doing business in this location” and are having a final sale.

Moving
Pan Macmillan is joining many of its peers in moving to spiffy new offices, planning to leave King’s Cross for a “larger and distinctive new headquarters which will provide a flexible and empowering environment for its fast-growing business,” an eight story building in London’s Clerkenwell in 2019. Managing director Anthony Forbes Watson told the Bookseller: “Our move to an enabling new environment at The Smithson next year is a key strand in our growth and development plans: this building provides us with a new platform, on which we can harness the energies and capabilities of our talented team, and further improve the way in which we work with all our authors, illustrators, customers and other partners.”

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