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by Calvin Reid -- Publishers Weekly, 1/19/2004

GRAYWOLF PRESS Janna Rademacher, a former bookseller and 10-year veteran of the Minnesota literary nonprofit, most recently as marketing director, has been named managing director.... Katie Dublinski will now handle all foreign rights.... Lindsay LeClair has been appointed finance and development manager.

TOKYOPOP INC. Dennis McGuirk, former director of sales and marketing for Chrysalis Children's Books, has been named retail sales director, U.K., for the U.S. manga publisher.

HARCOURT TRADE PUBLISHERS Paul Von Drasek has been promoted from director of sales to executive director.... Ellen Sugg has been promoted to national accounts manager from sales representative.... Evan Boorstyn has been promoted from publicity manager to associate director of publicity.... Vaughn Andrews, former executive art director, has been promoted to the new position of creative director.... Richard Schmitz, formerly director of contracts, has been named v-p, director of contracts.

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Nathan Gemignani, formerly with Palgrave Macmillan, has been named sales manager.

SHERIDAN BOOKS INC. Michael J. Seagram has been appointed v-p, sales and marketing, for the Michigan printer following 25 years as president of Aristoplay Ltd., a publisher of children's educational games, and with his own marketing firm, Seagram & Singer.

SCHOLASTIC INC. Mary Marotta has been promoted from senior national accounts manager to associate director, national accounts in the trade sales group.... Erin McHugh, former partner, executive v-p and executive creative director for Franklin Spier and director of membership and institutional development of the Empire State Pride Agenda and Foundation, has been appointed director of creative services.

NYU PRESS Ilene Kalish, former senior editor at Routledge, has been named executive editor acquiring titles in sociology, politics and anthropology.... Amanda Davis, former associate publisher at Routledge, has been appointed publicist.

OTHER PRESS Sid Albert, former national accounts manager at Random House Inc., has been appointed director of sales.... Nora Willett, former director of telemarketing at Random, is heading the telesales department.

VIKING PENGUIN Paul Buckley, formerly v-p, art director, Viking Penguin and recipient of well over 100 awards, has been named v-p, executive art director.... Julie Doughty, former associate editor at Vintage Books, has been named an editor at Dutton.

INGRAM BOOK GROUP Scott C. Viebranz, formerly with Procter & Gamble, Ralston Purina, Energizer Battery and Doan Pet Care, and most recently a consultant to start-up and growth businesses, has been named v-p of sales for Ingram Periodicals Inc.

THE PETER RUBIE LITERARY AGENCY LTD. Jodie Weiss, former editorial director at the Princeton Review's K–12 Services Group, has joined the agency.

BRODART CO. Dianne Russell Condon, former developer of store marketing strategies for Barnes & Noble and merchandising for B. Dalton, has been named business development manager.

HENRY HOLT Lisa Considine, formerly of John Wiley & Sons, has been named senior editor.... Annsley Rosner, former senior publicist at Vintage, has been appointed publicity manager, adult trade.

PENGUIN TARCHER Joel Fotinos, former publisher of Penguin/ Tarcher and director of religious publishing at Penguin, has been promoted to v-p of Jeremy P. Tarcher Inc.

DC COMICS Gregory Noveck, former senior v-p, television at Silver Pictures, has been named senior v-p, creative affairs.

ZAGAT SURVEY Julia Kagan, former editorial director for Consumer Reports and a 30-year publishing veteran, has been appointed v-p for content.—Compiled by Mary Ann Tennenhouse

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