Melville House has expanded its publicity team with the hiring of several experienced publicity executives:
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Maya Bradford is the company's new director of publicity. She was previously senior publicist in the adult trade division of Abrams Books, where she worked for 11 years.
Gregory Henry is Melville House's new senior publicist. He was previously senior publicity manager at HarperCollins, and also worked as assistant publicity director at ReaganArts.
Sammi Sontag is the company's new publicist. She was previously at Simon and Schuster, where she was a marketing and publicity assistant.
And earlier this year, Michael Barson joined as senior publicity executive. He has had a long career as a senior figure in the publicity departments of Putnam, Riverhead, Pantheon, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
Melville House co-publisher Valerie Merians commented: "Essentially, we've doubled the size of our publicity department, and quadrupled the depth of its experience. And given her history of winning campaigns for a variety of books reminiscent of our list, we're thrilled to have Maya leading the team. She's got the vision to see the extremely complicated times we live in as a time of not just new challenges, but new opportunities."