Rob Valois has been promoted to VP, associate publisher, editorial director of Penguin Workshop, from associate publisher, editorial director.
HarperCollins Children's Books has several promotions. Robby Imfeld has been promoted to senior director, marketing, from director, marketing. Taylan Salvati has been promoted to senior publicity manager, from publicity manager. Anna Ravenelle has been promoted to publicist, from associate publicist. Abby Dommert has been promoted to publicist, from associate publicist. Lisa Calcasola has been promoted to senior associate, marketing for HarperTeen, from marketing associate.
Mia Gelb has joined Random House Children's Books as marketing assistant, licensed and proprietary brands.
Lerner Publishing Group has three promotions. Annie Zheng has been promoted to editor, from associate editor and associate photo researcher. Spencer Hanson has been promoted to project manager, from project analyst. Ben Tunby has been promoted to premedia manager, from senior premedia project manager.
Kelley Brady has been promoted to assistant art director at Penguin Young Readers, from senior designer.
Kaitlin Kneafsey has been promoted to associate director of publicity at Penguin Young Readers, from assistant director.
Random House Children's Books has two promotions. Jules Kelly has been promoted to associate director, trade marketing, from assistant director. Megan Mitchell has been promoted to senior marketing manager, from manager.
Elise Damasco has joined HarperCollins Children's Books as school and library marketing coordinator; she was previously an advisory specialist at the Skokie Public Library.
Anette Dal Jensen is joining Magic Cat Publishing in the newly created role of U.S. sales and business development director; most recently she was business development director at Macmillan Children's Books in the U.K. In her new role she will oversee sales in North America.
Beth Kephart has joined Creative Editions as senior editor; she is a National Book Award finalist and the author of 40 books for young readers.
Brian Farrey-Latz has joined Lerner Publishing Group as senior editor for Zest Books. Most recently he was content manager at the Cengage Group, and before that was an acquisitions editor at Flux Books and Free Spirit Publishing.
Dana Eger has been promoted to marketing manager, school and library for Candlewick, Holiday House, and Peachtree, from school and library marketing associate.
Random House Children's Books has two new hires. Alana Moshay has joined as marketing associate, brand marketing; most recently she was an account executive at Saatchi & Saatchi. Pand Milo has joined as sales assistant for Tiger Tales; most recently she was a sales intern at Macmillan.
Laurent Linn, art director at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, has been elected president of the board of directors at the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Scholastic has two promotions and one new hire. Caroline Noll has been promoted to national account manager at Scholastic, from sales associate for national accounts. Sydney Niegos has been promoted to associate marketing manager, from sales coordinator for the field sales team. Jael Fogle has joined as lead production editor; previously she was a freelance production editor.
Ariel Stevenson has joined Random House Children's Books as production associate.
