At Azantian Literary Agency, T.S. Ferguson has joined as literary agent and will be open to queries beginning June 1. He was most recently an editor at Jimmy Patterson Books. Renae Moore has joined as associate agent, representing adult and YA speculative fiction and graphic novels. She was previously assistant agent at Tobias Literary Agency.
At Arcadia, Lynda Zuber has joined the sales team in the newly created position of national sales manager, special markets. She most recently provided business development strategies to Minted, Tra Publishing, Vooks and Lunii. Chuck Deane has joined the sales team as business development manager, based in Indianapolis. He previously held various sales positions at Wiley and IDG Books. Megan Petrie has been promoted to managing publicist for Arcadia Children’s Books.
Bookselling
Family Books in Los Angeles will close after over 14 years in operation and is selling off their inventory.