Job Moves
-- Publishers Weekly, 10/9/2008 7:28:00 AM
Nicole Kuritsky has joined the Random House audio publishing group as publicist. Kuritsky arrives from Grand Central where she's been a publicist for the past three years working on campaigns for such authors as Nicholas Sparks, Nelson DeMille and Amy Sedaris.A number of promotions and hires at HarperCollins this week. At HarperOne Nancy Hancock has been named executive editor. Hancock has worked for Rodale, S&S and McGraw-Hill. At HC's Speakers Bureau Jamie Brickhouse has been promoted to v-p/director; Julie Elmuccio has been promoted to assistant manager; and Blair Bryant Nichols has been promoted to coordinator. In the house's academic and library marketing department Doreen Davidson has been promoted to associate director of academic marketing and Bobby Brinson to senior manager of library marketing.
Rhalee Hughes, former director of publicity at Penguin Young Readers Group, has launched her own publicity firm. The firm, rhalee hughes public relations + marketing, can be found online at www.rhalee.com and Hughes can be contacted at rhughes@rhalee.com.
