Jao, Ford Up at RH
Laura Ford and Jonathan Jao have both been promoted to the position of editor at Random House. Ford, who joined Random in 2001 as an editorial assistant, has worked on such books as A Sudden Country by Karen Fisher and Curtis Sittenfeld's two novels, Prep and The Man of My Dreams. Jao, who joined the house in 2002 as an editorial assistant, worked on Tim Russert's Wisdom of Our Fathers and Jesse Helms's Here's Where I Stand.
Fonteneau to Rep Oasis
Anne Fonteneau, ABA sales manager at Blackstone Audio, has been chosen to handle the Oasis Audio line for certain key accounts.
Rodale Gets Minerva
Francesca Minerva has been named executive director of special markets, trade books at Rodale. Minerva arrives from McGraw-Hill, where she was a senior account executive and sales manager for catalogue/ associations, online, bulk and premium sales.
Hire, Promos At OUP
Brian Hughes has been promoted, and Kimberly Craven and Lenny Allen have been hired, at Oxford University Press. Hughes has been bumped up to marketing manager. Craven has been named director of trade and academic marketing, and Allen associate director of field and inside sales. Craven was most recently at Wiley and Allen was at Holtzbrinck.
Promos at Sterling
In the marketing and publicity department of Sterling Publishing, the following have been promoted: Kate Rados from senior publicist to publicity manager; Kelly Gavin from associate publicist to publicist; Anwesha Basu from marketing assistant to marketing associate; and Meaghan Finnerty from publicity assistant to associate publicist.
Kelly to Ten Speed
Patricia Kelly has joined Ten Speed Press as special sales director. She arrives from National Book Network, where she was senior director of sales. Before working at NBN, she was with Publishers Group West.
Dlouhy Up At S&S Children's
Caitlyn Dlouhy has been promoted from executive editor to editorial director at Simon & Schuster's children's imprint Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Dlouhy, who joined Atheneum in 1998, has worked on such award-winning titles as Kira-Kira by Cynthia Kadohata and The Battle of Jericho by Sharon Draper.
