People 11/10

Alicia Brooks has founded The Alicia Brooks Literary Agency. She was previously literary agent at JVNLA.

The WSJ looked at the unlikely success of her novel THE CORRESPONDENT, touted by Ann Patchett, which eked onto the non-printed part of the NYT bestseller list for one week in October (after being featured as a Kindle deal in late September). Published in April, hardcover sales have been building steadily, now up to just under 70,000 units as tracked by Circana Bookscan. (Crown tells the paper they have  255,000 hardcovers in print.)

Sarah Sapang has moved over as designer, art and design. Most recently she was a designer at Square Enix Manga and Books.

Mike Rosamilia has been promoted to associate director of technology for design.