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January 16, 2025By Katy Hershberger

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January 16, 2025By Katy Hershberger

The Book Group   

Sara Shandler has joined as senior agent. She was previously at Alloy Entertainment for 20 years.

Random House Publishing Group   

Elizabeth Schaefer is promoted to publishing director, Random House Worlds.

Tom Hoeler is promoted to editorial director, licensed fiction and special projects, Random House Worlds.

Gabriella Muñoz is promoted to associate editor, Random House Worlds.

Logan Balestrino has been promoted to senior manager of publishing and editorial pperations, Inklore.

Katelyn Hemmeke has joined Inklore as editor. She was most recently at Webtoon.

Viking Penguin   

Elizabeth Yaffe is promoted to associate art director.

Melville House   
Cecilia Flores has joined as editor. She was most recently at Soft Skull Press. 
Jay Pabarue has joined Melville House as director of digital media. They were most recently at The New Press.
Norton   

Elizabeth Gaffin has joined in the newly-created role of client services director for the Norton Trade Group, serving as the primary point of contact for trade distribution clients. She was previously director of Publisher Services at Artbook/D.A.P.

Andrew Gibeley has joined the trade publicity department as publicity manager. He was most recently senior publicist at Abrams Books,

Harper Collins Children's   

John Sellers has been promoted to senior director, publicity.

 

Penguin Children's   

Sierra Pregosin and Karter Powell have been promoted to publicist.

Krista Asadorian has been promoted to associate director, publishing office.

Astra House   

Susan Dobinick has been promoted to associate publisher, Astra Books for Young Readers.

Liz Koehler-Crean has been promoted to associate production manager.

Joshua Starr has been promoted to associate publisher, DAW.

Laura Fitzgerald has been promoted to senior marketing and publicity manager, DAW.

Madeline Goldberg has been promoted to assistant editor, DAW.

Tiffany Gonzalez has been promoted to senior marketing manager.

Phaidon   

John Quinn will join as CFO, effective January 27.

Ellie Levine has been promoted to global director of digital marketing.

Emma Tsankov has joined as social media manager.

 

The Good Literary Agency   

Co-founders Julia Kingsford and Nikesh Shukla indicate to the Bookseller that the agency will close at the end of March and all staff members will be laid off. Rights and revenues will revert to their over 200 authors. The agency had applied for additional funding but was unable to secure support.

Kingsford notes: “TGLA came about because we wanted to change two things: for there to be more opportunities for marginalized writers to break through and for accountability for the industry’s shortcomings on diverse publishing to shift, ensuring that no one could say that they didn’t publish more diversely because the writers weren’t there. We wanted to provide a place where authors could submit and know they would be seen (and responded to), to invest in agents and create career pathways to vitally increase the diversity of the gatekeeping workforce and to collaborate with the industry to implement lasting change across the board.”

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