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July 26, 2019
By Erin Somers

MJ Johnston has been promoted to associate editor of Sourcebooks and Sourcebooks Landmark.

Shina Patel has been promoted to marketing coordinator at Penguin Press.

Rafael Chaiken has been promoted to acquisitions editor at SUNY Press, acquiring in film studies, Jewish studies, and philosophy.

Carolyn Bodkin has been promoted to director, foreign rights at HarperCollins. She will expand her role to oversee foreign rights for fiction titles on the William Morrow hardcover list, in addition to all titles from Avon, Avon Impulse, William Morrow Paperbacks, Dey Street and fiction titles on the Harper trade list.

Picks
Ask Again, Yes by Mary Beth Keane was voted as this year’s Tonight Show Summer Reads book.

Distribution
Simon & Schuster will distribute Aconyte, the new fiction imprint of games publisher and distributor Asmodee, in the US and Canada starting spring 2020.

Filed Under: Distribution, Free, Personnel

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