At Picador, Aurora Hughes has been promoted to senior publicist. Hughes joined Picador in May 2010 after four years at HarperCollins. Recently, she has worked on the paperback publicity campaigns for Cathleen Schine’s New York Times bestseller The Three Weissmanns of Westport, Siri Hustvedt’s The Summer Without Men, and the just-released paperback of Edmund de Waal’s The Hare With Amber Eyes.

Justin Hargett joins Picador on August 8 as publicist. He was formerly director of publicity at Soho Press.

Elianna Kan joined Picador as publicity assistant in June. A recent graduate of Middlebury College, Kan had most recently interned at The Paris Review.