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January 8, 2025By Erin Somers

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January 8, 2025By Erin Somers

Simon & Schuster   

Hannah Brattesani has joined the flagship imprint in the newly created role of backlist manager. She was most recently literary agent and director of international rights at The Friedrich Agency.

Abrams   

Toni Martinez has joined as vice president, people. She will lead human resources and “drive organizational transformation.” Martinez was previously at Tribune Publishing, Fuse Media, and MTV Networks.

Berkley   

Amanda Maurer has been promoted to assistant editor.

Gabrielle Pachon has been promoted to assistant editor.

Penguin Random House   

On the preK-12 education marketing team:

Lani (Kaiulani) Williams has been promoted to senior director.

Colin Reublinger has been promoted to senior manager.

Kaitlyn Spotts has been promoted to manager.

On the higher education sales team, Annabella Sherman has been promoted to associate account manager (West).

Penguin Children's   

Olivia Russo has been promoted to executive director, publicity.

Emily Rodriguez has been promoted to senior managing editor.

Olivia Kwiatkowski has been promoted to senior designer, marketing.

Sterling Lord Literistic   

Lily Dolin has joined as associate agent. She was previously at UTA.

Azantian Literary Agency   

Mara Hollander joins as associate agent. She was previously at Fine Print Literary Management.

Carey Blankenship-Kramer joins as associate agent. She was previously at Belcastro Agency.

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