Job Moves: February 7, 2011

At D4EO Literary Agency, Kristin Miller has been promoted to associate agent. Miller, who interned at the agency for nine months, co-founded the young adult blog YA Highway and will be focusing on the agency's young adult and middle grade list.

Comings and Goings: February 7, 2011

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Regina Kanicki, former retail buyer at Atlantic Books (a regional chain in Pennsylvania), can now be reached at regina.kanicki@gmail.com.

Job Moves: February 4, 2011

Abrams has promoted six employees and hired one: Jason Wells has been promoted to executive director of children’s marketing and publicity; Tamar Brazis has been promoted to editorial director of Abrams Books for Young Readers and Amulet Books....

Job Moves: February 3, 2011

Lia Ronnen has been named executive editor and associate publisher at Artisan Books. Ronnen was most recently executive editor at Melcher Media, where she has spent the last 10 years and worked on books like Domino: The Book of Decorating and The Lucky Shopping Manual. Prior to Melcher, Ronnen was an associate editor at Abrams.

Job Moves: February 2, 2011

Nan Graham has been promoted to senior v-p and editor-in-chief of Scribner. Graham has been at Scribner for 16 years and has worked with a very long lost of established and up-and-coming authors such as Don DeLillo, Annie Proulx, Jeannette Walls, Monica Ali, Anthony Doerr, and Miranda July.

Job Moves: February 1, 2011

Kevin Moran has been named director of marketing at Skyhorse Publishing. He was formerly operations director at Overlook Press and prior to that, publisher of Hatherleigh Press.

Comings and Goings: January 31, 2011

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Erika Imranyi, former editor at Dutton, can now be reached at eimranyi@gmail.com.

Job Moves: January 31, 2011

Mary Allen has been named director of events and publicity at Vermont's Northshire Bookstore. Allen is replacing Zachary Marcus, longtime events director, who is returning to his writing and production work at Maverick Media Projects. Allen was promoted from her position as marketing assistant at Northshire.

Memorial Service Set for Manie Barron

A memorial service will be held February 5 for literary agent Manie Barron, who passed away January 8. The service will be held at St. Bartholomew’s Church, 325 Park Ave. in New York City.

Job Moves: January 27, 2011

Larry Hughes is joining Free Press as associate director of publicity, reporting to Carisa Hays. Hughes, who has worked at various houses including HarperCollins and Penguin (for their NAL imprint), was most recently an independent consultant. Hughes has also blogged for the Huffington Post and writes the personal blogs Classics Rock! and Book Flack at Large.

At Harlequin, Toye Retires, Moggy Rises

After more than 27 years at Harlequin, Randall Toye, v-p of series editorial, has decided to take early retirement and will leave the company on March 31. Additionally, longtime Harlequin staffer Dianne Moggy has been appointed v-p, series editorial and sub rights, effective January 31.

Media Coalition Elects Platt as 2011 Chair

Media Coalition has elected Judy Platt, director of communications/public affairs and Freedom to Read at the Association of American Publishers, as its 2011 chair. Platt has been at AAP for more than 30 years and joined the board of Media Coalition in 1996.

Job Moves: January 26, 2011

Planman Technologies has appointed Orville Dykes director of publishing services in its Cincinnati office. Dykes has been in educational publishing and manufacturing for 40 years and his appointment is part of Planman’s expansion in the U.S. Headquartered in New Delhi, India, Planman is a content solution provider in all aspects of developing and managing content in books, digital media, scholarly works, newspapers, journals, and magazines.

Job Moves: January 24, 2011

Anna Erickson has joined the Minnesota-based Creative Company as v-p of retail sales, managing the Creative Editions and Creative Paperbacks imprints. Erickson was previously director of distribution client services at Chronicle Books and, before that, director of marketing at Ten Speed Press.

Job Moves: January 21, 2011

Pamela Paul has been named children's books editor of the New York Times Book Review. Paul is a journalist and book critic, is the author of three nonfiction books, and is a columnist for the NYT’s Style section. She has also been book critic for the Economist, and began her career at Scholastic, where she was an editor and managed a book club.

Karen Thomas Leaves Grand Central

Karen R. Thomas, former executive editor at Grand Central Publishing, left her position at Grand Central at the end of the year to concentrate on freelance editorial projects, including digital publishing and agenting.

Job Moves: January 19, 2011

Tamara Crabtree has joined Abingdon Press as executive director, marketing. Crabtree, who has more than 20 years of management and marketing experience, was most recently v-p, sales and marketing at FiledBy, Inc. In her new role, Crabtree will lead marketing, public relations, research, and trade sales support for all books, Bibles, curriculum, church programs, and web-based resources developed by Abingdon, which is the publishing imprint for The United Methodist Publishing House.

Gompertz to Leave Simon & Schuster

Mark Gompertz, executive v-p and digital publisher at Simon & Schuster since April 2009, will leave the house March 15. The announcement was made Tuesday afternoon in a memo from S&S CEO Carolyn Reidy. Before being appointed digital publisher, Gompertz was the longtime publisher of S&S's Touchstone Fireside imprint.

Job Moves: January 18, 2011

Erin Kottke has been promoted to publicity director at Graywolf Press. Kottke joined Graywolf in 2005 as marketing assistant, and was later promoted to marketing and publicity manager. During her time at Graywolf, Kottke orchestrated publicity campaigns for such authors as Per Petterson, Tiphanie Yanique, and Tony Hoagland.