Janet Joy Wilson has joined Melville House as v-p, sales. She was formerly senior executive sales director of Penguin Random House Canada, where earlier she was a manager of special sales and imprint sales director. Since Melville House is distributed by PRHPS, she has represented the publisher's titles for more than 15 years and is very familiar with its backlist.
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At the St. Martin's Publishing Group:
Martin Quinn has been promoted to director, marketing and bookseller strategy.
Kirsi Balazs has been promoted to associate manager, marketing & sales operations.
Alexis Neuville has been promoted to associate manager, marketing.
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In the Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group marketing department:
Kelsey Manning has joined as associate director of marketing for Knopf. She was formerly on the consumer marketing team and earlier was the assistant director of marketing at Touchstone and then Scribner.
Emily Murphy has been promoted to associate director of marketing for Knopf. She joined the Group in 2015 and has worked in marketing since 2017.
Lindsay Mandel has been promoted to senior manager for Doubleday. She joined the company in 2010, and came to the marketing department in 2017 as the assistant manager for Vintage Anchor.
Asharee Peters is joining the company on March 28 as associate manager, focusing on Pantheon marketing. She has worked for two years at Macmillan.
Sophie Normil has joined the company as marketing associate at Vintage Anchor and her responsibilities include overseeing the Vintage Anchor social media platforms. She was formerly an assistant publicist at Morrow.