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| Mary Marotta | |
Mary Marotta is leaving her position as senior v-p, DK North America, to become senior v-p, group sales director, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, effective March 8. Both companies are part of Penguin Random House.
In announcing the appointment, Jaci Updike, president of sales, PRH U.S., praised Marotta for her "long and stellar history of building and motivating collaborative teams across sales and publishing to deliver significant backlist and frontlist growth, and to increase sales for major brands and bestselling authors. She has played a key role in the launches of multiple highly successful imprints and brands, including Harry Potter at Scholastic, as well as successful relaunches of ongoing brands, such as DK's bestselling travel series, in 2018."
She noted, too, that the move "represents a kind of homecoming for Mary: as a sales assistant at Bantam Doubleday Dell in 1991, her first publishing job, she was present for the launch of John Grisham's first Doubleday book, The Firm." Marotta has also been director of national accounts at Scholastic and then, at Simon & Schuster, first v-p, children's sales, and later deputy publisher, children's division. She joined DK in 2017 as v-p, sales, marketing & publicity, and was promoted to her current position in 2018.