People 2/1 - Publishers Lunch

American Booksellers Association

Politics & Prose co-owner Bradley Graham has resigned as president of the ABA board and will leave the board entirely, telling board members he wanted to pay “full attention to achieving productive contract negotiations” with the store’s newly-formed union as well as prioritizing other store projects. .

Word Bookstores owner Christine Onorati takes over as president; she was previously co-vice president.

Random House Group

Greg Kubie has been promoted to deputy director of publicity, Random House imprint.

Lisa Beech has been promoted to associate director of publicity, WaterBrook/Multnomah.

Stacey Stein has been promoted to senior publicist.

Andrea Pura has been promoted to publicist.

Jordan Pace has been promoted to publicist.

Erin Richards has been promoted to publicist

Maya Franson has been promoted to associate publicist.

Courtney Mocklow has been promoted to associate publicist

Random House Children's

Josh Redlich andKristopher Kam have each been promoted to assistant director, publicity.

Harper Collins

David Wienir has joined as assistant general counsel, senior director business affairs, Harper Collins Productions, reporting to Bill Adams. He was previously at UTA.

Macmillan

Natalia Becerra joins the children’s sales department at as national accounts manager.

Jared Christopher joins as a technical specialist.

Diane Dilluvio joins as a senior production manager.

Brittany Greenway joins as an indie sales representative.

Ansley Kent joins as sales associate.

Colin Krainin joins the trade sales team as assistant director, sales planning and analytics.

Hemali Patel joins as a jr. cost accountant.Naomi Spratley joins as contracts assistant.

Chris Venkatesh joins the trade sales eBook team as a national account manager, eBooks.

Valerie Esposito has been promoted to senior client account manager.

Veronica Gonzalez has been promoted to senior director, client services.

Kaitlyn Herbert has been promoted to assistant client account manager.Vanessa Martinez has been promoted to client account manager.

Bonnier Books UK

Sarah Braybrooke will join to lead a new non-fiction imprint in June, reporting to ceo Perminder Mann. She is currently managing director and publisher at Scribe UK.

Leo PR

Jessica Brock has joined as executive publicist. She was formerly senior publicist and digital media strategist at Berkley.

Edward R. Hamilton Bookseller

Olivia Wadsworth becomes buyer of frontlist and overstock books.