Lindsay Mergens is leaving the Nelson Literary Agency to pursue freelance opportunites. Joining NLA is Adrienne Sparks, former associate director of marketing at Doubleday, where she spent the previous 12 years.
Globe Pequot Press has promoted Chris Grimm to v-p of sales. Prior to joining GPP in 2006, Grimm spent four years at Simon & Schuster and 10 years at Bantam Doubleday Dell and Random House.
Thomas Nelson's Bible Group has promoted Bob Sennett to editor-in-chief. He has been with the company for 24 years.
At Chronicle Books, Phuong Mai has been promoted to metadata coordinator from her position in their ebrary. Paul Gore has been hired as CIO. He was previously at Hachette in the IT department.
At Abrams, Michelle Montague has been hired as the executive director of adult marketing and publicity. She was most recently the executive director of advertising and promotions at Simon & Schuster. Eric Klopfer has been promoted from associate editor to editor.
