Tracy Behar is joining Penguin Publishing Group as senior v-p, publisher, Avery and TarcherPerigee, effective in the new year. She succeeds Megan Newman, who has accepted Penguin Random House's voluntary separation offering.
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Behar is currently at Little, Brown, where she is v-p, publisher and editor-in-chief of the imprint she founded in 2018, Little, Brown Spark, which focuses on prescriptive nonfiction. Behar has overseen publishing in the categories of health, psychology, self-help, science, nature, parenting, business, and reference. Before joining Little, Brown in 2005, she held senior management positions at Atria Books; Broadway Books, where she was a founding member; and HarperCollins. In 2017, she was awarded Hachette's Les Pockell Mentoring Award.
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Also, at Avery, Lucia Watson has been promoted to v-p, editor in chief. Watson began her publishing career as an editorial assistant at Viking in 1998 and joined Avery in 2005. She has acquired a diverse list in the categories of wellness, personal development, psychology, and cooking.
At Little, Brown, Michael Szczerban will become v-p, publisher, Voracious and Spark, effective January 1. He has been at Little, Brown for nine years. In 2019, he launched the Voracious imprint. He began his career at Simon & Schuster, and later helped launch the Regan Arts imprint at Phaidon. He is a recipient of the Lawrence Peel Ashmead Editorial Award.