Effective with the New Year, Suzanne Murphy is being promoted to v-p
and publisher, trade publishing and marketing, for Scholastic's trade
publishing division. She has been v-p of marketing, Scholastic trade,
and in her new position succeeds Ellie Berger, who was made president
of trade publishing at Scholastic in October. Murphy joined the company
in 2005.
In related moves, David Saylor is being promoted to the newly created
position of v-p, associate publisher and creative director, hardcover
books. He was formerly creative director of Scholastic's trade
publishing division.
Leslie Garych has become v-p of trade marketing in the trade marketing
department. A 10-year veteran of the company, Garych was most recently
executive director of marketing, creative services and marketing/sales
operations for Scholastic trade. Earlier she worked at S&S and
Disney/Hyperion and was a children's book buyer at Barnes & Noble.
Tracy van Straaten has been named v-p of publicity and
education/library marketing in the trade marketing department. Before
joining the company in 2006 as v-p of publicity for Scholastic Trade,
van Straaten held children’s book publicity positions at S&S,
Morrow, HarperCollins and Little, Brown.
David Levithan has been promoted to executive editorial director,
Scholastic Press fiction, multimedia publishing and the PUSH imprint.
He joined the company 15 years ago as an editorial intern, founded PUSH
in 2002 and became editorial director of Scholastic Press last year.