Koncsol to S&S Children's
Siena Koncsol has joined the Simon & Schuster Children's publicity department as Paul Crichton's assistant. Koncsol, who is a 2008 graduate of Harvard University, spent the past year working for Jane Friedman at Open Road Integrated Media.

Petersen Kennedy Gets AAP Post
Susan Petersen Kennedy, president of Penguin Group, has been named chair of the AAP trade division. Kennedy has been president of Penguin since 2001 and, before that, was chairman and publisher of Viking.