Penguin Young Readers Group has two new hires. Kaitlin Kneafsey has joined as publicity assistant. She was an intern at HarperCollins Children's Books with the publicity and digital marketing departments. Katie Quinn has joined as publicity assistant; she was an intern in the editorial and publicity departments at HarperCollins Children's Books and Wunderkind PR.
Kandace Coston has joined Lee & Low Books as editorial assistant. She interned at Lee & Low as a recipient of a We Need Diverse Books internship grant.
Nicole Deming has been promoted to chief operating officer at the Children's Book Council and Every Child a Reader. She was previously communications director.
Kerry Martin has joined Holiday House as director of art and design. She was formerly senior designer at Clarion Books.
At Bloomsbury Children's, Cindy Loh has been promoted to v-p and publishing director; she was previously publishing director. Lizzy Mason has been promoted to director of publicity; she was previously associate director of publicity.
Abrams has three new hires in its children's marketing and publicity department. Patricia McNamara has joined as digital and social media marketing associate; she was previously senior editor with Girls' Life and GirlsLife.com. Caitlin Miller has joined as associate publicist; she was previously publicity assistant at Penguin Young Readers. And Katie Tull has joined as assistant; previously she was an intern for Pelican Publishing.
Carolyn Bull is joining Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as junior designer for licensed books; she was previously a design intern at Penguin Young Readers.
