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July 2, 2025By Erin Somers

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July 2, 2025By Erin Somers

Ingram Content Group   

Josh Dailey is promoted to chief legal officer.

Basic Books   

Associate publisher TJ Kelleher will leave publishing on August 22 and “embrace a new life as a gentleman farmer.”

Hachette Book Group   

Tobias Madden has joined as senior manager, metadata strategy, leading Hachette’s metadata team. Madden was previously at Ingram.

Amanda Marks has joined as national account manager, overseeing Amazon sales for Hachette’s distributed clients. She was previously frontlist manager at Barnes & Noble.

Effective July 7, Stephanie Liccardi is promoted to associate national account manager, joining the Amazon sales team and focusing on the HBG children’s catalog.

Melville House   

Jonathon Sturgeon has joined as senior editor. Previously, Sturgeon was editor in chief of The Baffler magazine.

Harlequin   

Laura Gianino becomes associate director of publicity.

Sophie James has been promoted to senior publicist.

Eden Railsback has been promoted to assistant editor at Hanover Square Press.

Berkley   

Yazmine Hassan has been promoted to publicist.

Belcastro Agency   
Tasneem Motala has joined as junior agent. She was previously assistant agent at The Rights Factory.

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