AL: Dealmaker Updates – August

Publisher Sean Desmond has left the company, to take an editorial position at another publisher that is still to be formally announced. Grand Central has not made any announcement about Twelve’s future yet.

Anna Petkovich as joined as agent. Previously she had been at Park & Fine Literary Media.

Valerie Frankel has joined as an agent.

Yezanira Venecia has joined as a junior literary agent. She was previously an editor at Melville House and Soho Press.

Carey Blankenship-Kramer joins as junior literary agent.