People 10/6

David Ebershoff will serve as editor-in-chief of Hogarth Books, continuing to report to Random House evp, publisher Andy Ward. Ebershoff will also “continue to edit a curated list for the Random House imprint.”

Lisa Moraleda has been promoted to the newly created role of executive director, publicity and will serve as head of publicity for all imprints. Tara Shananan has joined as publicity director; she was previously at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Nicole Valdez has joined as senior publicity manager; she was previously at Random House Graphics. Shanahan, Valdez and senior director of publicity Nicole Russo all report to Moraleda.

Morgan Maple has joined as publicist; she was previously at Random House Children’s. Shivani Annirood and Jenny Lu have each been promoted to publicist.

Emily Varga has been promoted to lecture agent.

Camille Bastian has joined as payroll manager. Jonathan-Cheehong Chia has joined as a junior royalties accountant.

There are a number of promotions on the trade sales team: Jeanette Zwart to director, Canada sales and Raincoast; Jasmine Key to associate national account manager, Target; Kathleen McCutcheon to associate national account manager, Bookazine Adult and Airports; Brad Wood to senior director, Amazon; Taylor Armstrong will be promoted to the newly created position of associate director, custom sales and subscription boxes; Kara Warschausky to the newly created position of retail marketing manager; and Trish Madson to senior national account manager, RDS and Costco.

In library marketing, Amanda Roundtree has been promoted to manager and Emily Day has been promoted to associate manager.

Rebecca Vitkus has joined as managing editor. She was previously at Simon & Schuster.

Wayne Arthurson has joined as an associate agent.

Julie Jayne has been promoted to associate publisher, reporting to Salem Books Publisher Tim Peterson.

Margot Mallinson has been promoted to associate editor.

Liz Dresner has joined Sourcebooks Fire as senior art director. She was previously at Macmillan Children’s.