Patrick Brown is director of author marketing at Goodreads; Cynthia Shannon has joined Goodreads as author marketing coordinator.

At Avon, Erika Tsang has been promoted to editorial director. Amanda Bergeron has been promoted to editor.

Fiona Brown joins the Little, Brown publicity department as a senior publicist. She comes, most recently, from Riverhead.

Joe Perez has joined Random House as senior art director. He was previously art director at Portfolio Books.

Kerri Buckley is now editor at Carina Press.