Tracy Miracle, formerly VP of publicity for Candlewick Press and the Walker Books Group, has formed a publicity and marketing firm, Egypt Street PR & Literary, collaborating on promotional campaigns with writers, artists, publishers, and literacy organizations. She can be reached here.
Candlewick Press, Holiday House, and Peachtree have two new hires. Thomas Gengozian has joined as national account manager to Readerlink; he previously worked for Industry Print as key account sales manager. Marion Jenkins has joined as senior national account manager to Amazon; she was previously strategic partner manager in Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing division.
Random House Children's Books has two new hires. Christina Chung has joined as designer; most recently she was a freelance illustrator. Abby Cunningham has joined as marketing assistant, licensed and proprietary brands; previously she was an assistant buyer at Books-A-Million.
Ivan Taurisano has joined First Second as associate editor; previously he was an associate editor at Abrams.
Debra Linn has joined TvS Media Group as marketing director; previously she was marketing director for Algonquin Books.
Cheryl Eissing has been promoted to senior editor at Flamingo, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers; she was previously editor.
Matt Kissel has joined Random House Children's Books as marketing designer; previously he was a multimedia designer at National Geographic.
Kristin Ostby has joined Salky Literary Management/Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency as literary agent and director of the children's division. She was previously a literary agent at Greenhouse Literary Agency.
Workman Kids has a new hire and two promotions. Maria Kofman has joined as senior designer. Daniella Graner has been promoted to senior designer, from designer. Andy Wang has been promoted to designer, from assistant designer.
Kate Weissman has joined Random House Children's Books as assistant production designer, art/design; previously she was a freelance graphic designer with DF Digital.
