Chris Barba will retire as executive v-p, sales for Hachette. She has been with the company for 33 years, and has worked with authors such as Nicholas Sparks, David Baldacci, Malcolm Gladwell, among many others.

Guinevere de la Mare has been promoted to senior community manager at Chronicle Books. She was formerly community manager.

Tomas Wise will assume the post of executive v-p of Music Sales Corporation. He has been with the company over 10 years.

Peter Bohan has been promoted to associate director of marketing in Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s Children's Book Group. He was previously senior marketing manager.

Ron Hussey has been promoted to director of permissions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. He has been at HMH for over a decade and was previously permissions manager.

At Free Press:

Sharbari Kamat is promoted to associate editor. She will continue to work with Martha Levin.

Donna Loffredo is promoted to associate editor. She will continue to work with Leslie Meredith.

Sydney Tanigawa is promoted to associate editor. She will continue to work with Dominick Anfuso.