People 7/16 - Publishers Lunch

Penguin Press

Mollie Reid has been promoted to publicist.

Harper One

Melinda Mullin has been promoted to executive director of publicity.

Aly Mostel has been promoted to executive director of marketing.

Julia Kent has been promoted to director of marketing.

Tarcher Perigee

Batya Rosenblum has joined as senior editor. Rosenblum was previously executive editor at The Experiment.

Simon & Schuster

Selene Covarrubias has joined as sales development manager, Latinx Market, a newly created role.

Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree

Neda Kamalhedayat has joined as consumer marketing coordinator. She most recently interned in the Candlewick marketing department.

Jaclyn Withers has joined as sales coordinator, special markets and proprietary sales. She was previously a production coordinator at NewGlobe Education.

Diversion Books

Toni Kirkpatrick has joined as senior editor, acquiring fiction.

Curtis Brown

Katie Grimm has joined after previously working at Don Congdon Associates.

The Bindery Agency

Kesia Lupo will leave the agency on July 25.

Daniela Schlingmann Literary Scouting

Kaye Baginsky joins as scout in New York for adult and children’s fiction and nonfiction from the US. They were previously junior scout at Bettina Schrewe Literary Scouting.

Sarah Moore has been promoted to scout in London, for adult fiction and nonfiction from the UK, US and in translation.

Seminary Co-op

Daniel Y. Mayer has been appointed as the Seminary Co-op Bookstores’ interim executive director. Mayer was most recently president/CEO of the Chapman Cultural Center in Spartanburg, SC.