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April/May 2014 | May 22, 2014

Algonquin Young Readers

Krestyna Lypen has joined Algonquin Young Readers in the newly created position of associate editor.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Current ECC board secretary Anna Dobbin has been promoted to Editorial Associate.

Little, Brown Books for Young Readers

Kheryn Callender is joining as an Editorial Assistant (former LBYR intern and Books of Wonder bookseller).

Pam Garfinkel has been promoted to Associate Editor.

2013 ECC board member Allegra Green has been promoted to marketing operations coordinator; she was previously marketing assistant.

Pam Gruber moves from associate editor to editor.

Deirdre Jones is now Associate Editor.

Former editorial assistant Leslie Shumate has been promoted to Assistant Editor.

Bethany Strout has moved up to associate editor.

Macmillan

Grace Kendall, formerly with Scholastic, moves to editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux Books for Young Readers.

Penguin Young Readers Group

Jennifer Dee is now publicity assistant.

Gillian Levinson has been promoted to editor at Razorbill; she was previously associate editor.

Random House Children’s Books

Jillian Vandall has been hired as publicist. She was formerly an associate publicist at Simon & Schuster.

Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Nicole Ellul has been promoted to assistant editor at Simon Pulse; she was previously editorial assistant.

Sylvie Frank has been promoted to editor at Simon & Schuster’s Paula Wiseman Books imprint. She was formerly associate editor.

Former junior designer, Karina Granda, has been promoted to designer.

Alyson Heller has been promoted to editor at Aladdin; she was formerly associate editor.

Regis Holman has moved up to production associate.

Sarah Kwak has been hired as production assistant.

Emma Ledbetter has moved up to associate editor of Atheneum Books.

Kara Reilly will become a production associate for Aladdin’s frontlist titles along with Pulse and Beyond Words backlist.

Dani Young has been promoted to associate editor of Books for Young Readers/Atheneum/McElderry Books.

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