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Margo Shickmanter joins today as executive editor, acquiring both literary and upmarket fiction, plus select literary nonfiction. She has been at Doubleday for the past 8 years. The company says, “Margo has impressed us for years with her rare combination of taste, conviction, tenacity, and vision that has helped so many of her books rise to prominence.”

Stuart Roberts joins as executive editor. He was previously at Simon & Schuster.

Katie McGuire has joined Epic Ink as editor. She was previously original novels editor at Tapas Media.

Angela Jun has joined Hachette Book Group as art director.

Lynn Henry has been promoted to editor-in-chief.

A unified rights team will service most Hachette UK titles going forward, led by Rebecca Folland, promoted to group rights director and reporting to Richard Kitson. Rights teams at the children’s division and Bookouture will remain separate, as will sales for Octopus, except for some narrative titles, which will be represented by the new centralized unit.