People 9/14

Jenna Bush Hager will launch an author-focused weekly podcast starting a week from today on September 24, with Colleen Hoover and Javier Zamora as her first guests. The roster of featured authors for the rest of the year is posted here. “All of these conversations enrich the experience of reading. You don’t have to have read these books to listen to these conversations and feel inspired,” Jenna says.

Nancy Kriz has been promoted to senior manager of account marketing.

Alexis Kuzma has been promoted to senior retail strategy manager, author brands.

Sean Buckley is joining the independent sales team as telesales account manager.

Deputy publisher at Ebury Lizzy Gray will move to Pan Macmillan at the end of November to become publisher of Bluebird, reporting to Jeremy Trevathan.

Danny Vazquez reports that he was laid off from his position as senior editor at the beginning of June.