Simon & Schuster has four promotions. Laura Eckes has been promoted to associate art director at S&S Books for Young Readers, from senior designer. Brittany Fetcho has been promoted to associate art director at Simon Spotlight, from senior designer. Rebecca Syracuse has been promoted to associate art director at Atheneum, McElderry, and Beach Lane, from senior designer. Karyn Lee has been promoted to senior designer at Atheneum, McElderry, and Beach Lane, from designer.
Scholastic Trade has six promotions. Maeve Norton has been promoted to art director, from associate art director. Samantha Palazzi has been promoted to senior editor, from editor. Orlando Dos Reis has been promoted to senior editor, from editor. Amanda Trautmann has been promoted to publicity coordinator, from publicity assistant. Lerina Velazquez has been promoted to assistant editor, from editorial assistant. Jalen Garcia-Hall has been promoted to assistant editor, formerly editorial assistant.
Sofie Jones has joined Nosy Crow as publishing assistant.
Senior agent Susan Cohen is retiring from Writers House on November 10. She has been with the agency for 43 years. Authors on her client list include Susan Patron, Kathleen Krull, Susan Beth Pfeffer, Tony Johnston, and Stacy Innerst.
Jeanine Le Ny has joined Little Bee Books as executive editor, BuzzPop; most recently she was senior category manager at Callisto.
Scholastic has five promotions. Katie Woehr has been promoted to executive editor, licensing, brands and media, from senior editor, at Scholastic Trade. Katie Fitch has been promoted to art director, licensing, brands and media, from associate art director, at Scholastic Trade. Ezra Aronowitz has been promoted to associate marketing manager, from marketing associate, at Scholastic Klutz. Mona Tavangar has been promoted to cross channel coordinator, from cross channel assistant, at Scholastic Trade. Hope-Elizabeth Darris has been promoted to assistant editor, from assistant editor, at Scholastic Trade.
Adam Castro has joined Random House Children’s Books as junior designer; previously he was associate graphic designer at IDW Publishing.
Scholastic Trade has three promotions. Shifa Kapadwala has been promoted to senior manager, global brand publicity, from manager. Anna Bloom has been promoted to executive editor, from senior editor. Kelsey Albertson has been promoted to manager, special market sales, from associate manager.
Brittany Schachner has been promoted to manager, frontlist planning at Scholastic, from assistant manager.
Julia (Jules) Buckley has joined Random House Children's Books as a design assistant.
Megan Ilnitzki has been promoted to executive editor in the Harper Group at HarperCollins Children's Books, from senior editor.
Viking Children's Books has two promotions. Dana Leydig has been promoted to executive editor and associate director of publishing, from executive editor. Aneeka Kalia has been promoted to editor, from associate editor.
Beth Phelan and Linda Camacho have been promoted to senior agents at Gallt and Zacker Literary Agency; they were previously agents.
Zachary Simpson has joined Candlewick as senior accountant; most recently he was senior accountant at Allied Minds LLC.
