Farin Schlussel will join Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as marketing coordinator on June 2. She was previously marketing and publicity coordinator at Penguin Random House's Gotham and Avery imprints.

HMH Books for Young Readers has four promotions. Amy Cherrix, Anna Dobbin, Christine Krones, and Anna Meier have all been promoted to editorial associate, from editorial assistant.

Michelle Fadlalla has been promoted to v-p, director of education and library marketing at Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing. She has been with the company for 15 years; in 2005 she was named director of education and library marketing. In 2009 she took on the responsibility for the adult imprints as well.

Rachel Wasdyke has been promoted to senior publicity manager at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books for Young Readers; she was formerly publicity manager.

Audrey Gibbons has joined Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing as associate publicist; she was formerly publicity assistant at Black Dog & Leventhal.

Jill Freshney has been promoted to the newly created position of senior executive managing editor at Macmillan Children's Publishing Group. Previously she was executive managing editor.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has four promotions. Alyson Heller has been promoted to editor at Aladdin; she was formerly associate editor. Krista Vossen has been promoted to art director; she was formerly associate art director. Michael McCartney has been promoted to associate art director; he was formerly senior designer. Karina Granda has been promoted to designer; she was formerly junior designer.

Scholastic Trade has one new hire and several promotions. Ellen Duda has joined the company as designer. She was previously junior designer at Sterling Publishing. Julie Amitie has been promoted to executive director of marketing; she was previously director of marketing. Beth Noble has been promoted to associate marketing manager; she was previously assistant marketing manager. Emelia Zamani has been promoted to editorial manager for Chicken House and David Fickling Books (U.S.); she was previously an assistant editor with Scholastic Press and Michael di Capua Books. Nina Goffi has been promoted to senior designer. She was previously designer. Rachel Hicks has been promoted to managing editor, trade hardcover/paperback; she was previously senior production editor.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has two promotions. Christina Solazzo has been promoted to senior production editor for Simon Spotlight and Little Simon; she was formerly production editor. Nicole Ellul has been promoted to assistant editor at Simon Pulse; she was previously editorial assistant.

Joan DeMayo, formerly senior v-p and director of sales, Random House Children's Books and Random House Special Markets, has left the company. She can be reached here.

Nancy Conescu, executive editor of Dial Books for Young Readers, is leaving the company as of May 8 and will be relocating to Sydney, Australia. She can be reached here.

Sylvie Frank has been promoted to editor at Simon & Schuster's Paula Wiseman Books imprint. She was formerly associate editor.

Emily Easton is joining Crown Books for Young Readers as executive editor, reporting to Phoebe Yeh, on May 19. Most recently she was publishing director of the Walker and Company imprint of Bloomsbury USA Children's Group, where she worked with, among other authors, Simone Elkeles, Kevin O'Malley, Karen Gravelle, Matthew McElligott, Salina Yoon, Judy Finchler, and David McLimans. At Crown, she will work on picture book and middle grade nonfiction, as well as picture books and teen fiction.

Jennifer Abbots has been named assistant publicity manager at Harlequin Teen; she was most recently associate director of publicity at Henry Holt, and had previously worked at Little, Brown Books for Young Readers.

Simon and Schuster Children's Publishing has two promotions. Emma Ledbetter has been promoted to associate editor at Atheneum; she was previously assistant editor. Dani Young has been promoted to associate editor at S&S Books for Young Readers/Atheneum/ McElderry; she was previously assistant editor.