Random House Children's Books has five promotions and one new hire. Kelly McGauley has been promoted to assistant director, trade marketing, from senior marketing manager. Hannah Black has been promoted to marketing manager, from assistant marketing manager. Jules Kelly has been promoted to associate marketing manager, from marketing associate. Audrey Steuerwald has been promoted to design manager, from senior designer. Andrea Comerford has been promoted to marketing coordinator, from marketing assistant. Janine Perez has joined the trade marketing department as marketing manager; she was previously associate manager digital marketing at Simon & Schuster.
Scholastic Trade has several promotions. Keith Fretz has been promoted to senior product manager, digital, from product manager. Devin MacDonald has been promoted to marketing brand manager, from assistant manager. Monica Palenzuela has been promoted to publicity manager, brands, from senior publicist. Steve Ponzo has been promoted to designer, from design coordinator. Vaishali Nayak has been promoted to associate marketing manager, from senior coordinator. Lauren Carr has been promoted to publicity coordinator, from publicity assistant. Samantha Swank has been promoted to associate editor, from assistant editor. Jeffrey West has been promoted to assistant editor, from editorial assistant. Olivia Valcarce has been promoted to assistant editor, from editorial assistant. Jeremy West has been promoted to coordinator, licensing and brands, from publishing assistant. And Danielle Yadao has joined as marketing manager, educational marketing; previously she was a marketing coordinator at Little, Brown.
Chronicle Books has one promotion and one new hire. Jennifer Tolo Pierce has been promoted to design director, children's publishing; previously she was a design director in the company's lifestyle department. Madison Killen has joined as children's marketing manager; previously she was manager of creative content at Penguin Young Readers.
Jennie Kendrick has been named an agent at Lupine Grove Creative literary agency; previously she was editor of the book review site Forever Young Adult.
Megan Abbate at Roaring Brook Press has been promoted to assistant editor, from editorial assistant.
Lucy Cummins has been promoted to executive art director at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers and Paula Wiseman Books; she was previously art director.
At Abrams, Nicole Schaefer has been promoted to assistant manager of children's marketing, from marketing and publicity associate. Hana Nakamura will join the children's design department as associate art director of Appleseed and Amulet Books, effective Feb. 12. She was previously associate art director of the company's Noterie line.
Lee & Low has two promotions. Kandace Coston has been promoted to assistant editor, from editorial assistant. Abhi Alwar has been promoted to associate designer and production coordinator, from junior designer/production assistant.
Klutz Press has two promotions. Julia Romero has been promoted to director of sales, from key account sales manager. Courtney DeVerges has been promoted to sales representative, from sales associate.
In the Random House Books for Young Readers licensed publishing group, Andrea Posner-Sanchezhas been promoted to senior executive editor, from executive editor, and Meika Hashimoto has been promoted to editor, from associate editor.
Erika Turner has joined Houghton Mifflin Harcourt as editorial project manager for its new children's imprint, Versify, which will be curated by Kwame Alexander; previously she was managing editor at the Vera Institute of Justice.
The Quarto Group has two new hires in children's marketing. Alana Whitman has joined as senior marketing manager; previously she was senior manager, integrated marketing at HarperCollins Children's Books. Onalee Smith has joined as marketing manager; most recently she was marketing creative and strategic manager at the Conference Forum, and had worked in marketing at Penguin Random House and HarperCollins Children's Books.
Allison Cohen is joining Running Press Kids as editor; she was previously a literary agent with the Gersh Agency.
At Random House Children's Books, Emily Bamford has been promoted to publicist, from associate publicist.
Callie Graham has joined Holiday House as contracts/rights assistant; she was previously marketing assistant at the Children's Book Council.
Heather Crowley has been promoted to assistant editor at Disney Hyperion, from editorial assistant.
Max Temescu is joining Abrams as design assistant for the Amulet, Appleseed, Abrams Books for Young Readers, and ComicArts imprints; previously he worked at Paperless Post.
Shaughnessy Miller has joined Random House Children's Books as school and library marketing coordinator.
