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Hilary Breed Van Dusen has been named acquisitions editor at Candlewick Press. Van Dusen, who joined the company in October as a freelancer, will be working on many of the titles coming out of sister company Walker Books in the U.K.

Joe Monti has joined Houghton Mifflin as national accounts manager of the Children's Book Group. In the newly created role, Monti will sell the house's titles to Barnes & Noble and Baker & Taylor. Mostly recently, Monti was a children's book buyer at B&N, specializing in YA titles.

Claire Wachtel is moving imprints at HarperCollins, from William Morrow to Harper. Wachtel will take on the title senior v-p, executive editor, at the house's flagship imprint.

Laurie Chittenden is joining William Morrow as executive editor, beginning May 15. Decamping from her role as senior editor at Penguin's Dutton imprint, Chittenden has also worked at Simon & Schuster, Hyperion and Rizzoli Books.

Patty Garcia has been named senior publicist at Tor Books. Garcia was most recently at Routledge and NYU Press.

Dallas Middaugh has been promoted from director of manga for Del Rey to associate publisher of Del Rey Manga. Middaugh, who was director of sales and marketing at Viz before joining Del Rey, will be relocating from Los Angeles to New York. Mutsumi Miyazaki is joining the company as director of licensing and acquisitions. Miyazaki was most recently acquisitions manager at Tokyopop.

Peter J. Potter has joined Cornell University Press as editor-in-chief. A 20-year veteran of scholarly publishing, Potter was most recently associate director and editor-in-chief at Penn State University Press.

Colorado-based Cook Communications Ministries has hired Ryan Dunham as senior v-p of sales. Dunham takes over the newly created position after more than 14 years in the sales department at Zondervan.

George Lossius has been promoted to group chief executive officer at Vista International, a company that provides software solutions to the publishing industry. Lossius was previously managing director of applications & technology group.

In last week's issue we incorrectly noted that David Falk will be working out of Houghton Mifflin's Boston office; he will be based in New York. John Mendelson will be in Boston.