People 9/3

Katie Vaughn has been promoted to senior marketing manager.

Olivia Treynor has been promoted to assistant marketing manager.

Emelyn Ehrlich has been promoted to sales coordinator.

Stephanie Felty is promoted to senior publicist.

Cara Nesi has been promoted to associate sales director – inside sales.

Keely Thomas-Menter has been promoted to senior publicist.

Olivia Guimarães has been promoted to assistant editor.

Amanda Ferreira has been promoted to senior editor at Random House Canada.

Rachel Brown has been promoted to senior editor at Penguin Random House Canada, focusing on editorial leadership within the Appetite team.

Whitney Millar has been promoted to associate editor at Penguin Random House Canada, where she focuses on editorial work and diversifying acquisitions for Appetite.

Linda A. Duggins joins as agent. Duggins was previously senior director of publicity at Grand Central.

The Seattle store launches a new community arm, Third Place Books Literary Foundation, which expands on its Books to Students program which gives free books to schools and community organizations. The foundation will “increase the reach, diversity of programming, and fundraising abilities of the store’s community outreach programming, including book donation programs to low-income schools and organizations supporting literary initiatives in the Seattle metro area; free author events held in the bookstore and at schools and community hubs that connect readers directly with authors; and book fairs for local schools and community organizations.”

Wiley will receive the organization’s inaugural Founders Award, which recognizes “exceptional and sustained organizational commitment to BISG and its mission.”