Kristin Dulaney has been promoted to subsidiary rights director at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. She was previously associate director, subsidiary rights.
Random House Children's Books has one promotion and two new hires. Melissa Zar has been promoted to associate marketing manager; she was previously marketing coordinator. Robby Brown joins the company as advertising manager; he was most recently advertising and promotions manager at Macmillan Children’s Books. And Alexandra Post joins as advertising assistant.
DK Publishing has two promotions. Meghan O'Brien is now associate director, special sales; she was previously manager, special and proprietary sales. And Stephanie Kull has been promoted to special sales manager, from production manager.
At Macmillan Children’s Publishing Group, Michelle Campbell has been promoted to assistant marketing manager for the school and library department; previously, she was a marketing associate. Kelly McGauley has been promoted to associate manager of advertising and promotion; she was previously an advertising and promotion associate.
Penguin Young Readers Group has one promotion and two new hires. Kathryn Bhirud has been promoted to assistant director, advertising and promotion; she was most recently senior manager. Venessa Carson will join the school and library department in the new position of assistant director; previously she was school and library marketing manager at Simon and Schuster. Catherine Hayden is joining the company as school and library coordinator.
Kayleigh McCann will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as designer for licensed books on March 24. She was previously associate designer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers.
Daisy Kline has been named v-p of national accounts at Penguin Young Readers Group. She was most recently v-p of marketing and brand management at Scholastic Media.
Rosanne Romanello is joining HarperCollins Children's Books as senior publicity manager. Most recently she worked at EVINS, a marketing and public relations firm, and she began her career in the publicity department of Berkley/NAL.
Isa Caban is joining Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing as marketing assistant; she was formerly an intern in the department.
DK has two promotions. Mindy Fichter has been promoted to associate director of publicity; she was formerly publicity manager. Julia O’Halloran has been promoted to senior publicist; she was formerly publicist.
Jessica Shoffel has been promoted to publicity manager at Penguin Young Readers Group; she was previously senior publicist.
Agent Danielle Smith is joining Red Fox Literary this month; she was previously with Foreword Literary.
Lara Starr has been promoted to senior publicist at Chronicle Children’s Books. She was previously publicist.
At Macmillan Children's Publishing Group, Katherine Jacobs has been promoted to senior editor at Roaring Brook Press; she was previously editor.
Nicole Banholzer will join the group as publicist; previously she was associate publicist at Random House Children's Books. Brittany Pearlman will join the group as publicity assistant.
At Random House Children's Books, Delacorte Press has two promotions. Rebecca Short has been promoted to associate editor, from assistant editor; and Krista Vitola has been promoted to associate editor, from assistant editor. Zack O'Brien has joined Random House Children's Books as subsidiary rights associate; he was previously subsidiary rights assistant at Simon & Schuster Children's Books.
Little, Brown Books for Young Readers has several promotions. Connie Hsu has been promoted to senior editor; she was previously editor. Mary-Kate Gaudet has been promoted to editor; she was previously associate editor. Patti Ann Harris has been promoted to executive art director; she was previously senior art director. Saho Fuji has been promoted to associate art director; she was previously senior designer. Liz Casal has been promoted to senior designer; she was previously designer. Adrian Palacios has been promoted to associate director, digital marketing and social media; he was previously senior digital marketing manager. Mara Lander has been promoted to associate director, brand marketing; she was previously senior brand marketing manager. Li Zhang has been promoted to senior designer, marketing; he was previously designer. Leslie Golden has been promoted to publishing and communications associate; she was previously assistant to the publisher and deputy publisher.
Anne Moore Armstrong has joined the Bright Group as creative collaborative agent. She was previously at Candlewick Press.
Jaime Wong has joined Chronicle Books as children's marketing coordinator. She was previously an English teacher in Sudbury, Mass., and a curriculum and classroom consultant at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.
