Chronicle Books has expanded its sales leadership team with two hires:
Jenny Goodman Abrami returns to Chronicle Books as executive director of global sales, overseeing all of Chronicle Books' trade, mass market, and specialty sales teams in the U.S. and around the world. Abrami has worked in book publishing sales management for more than 25 years, most recently at Sasquatch Books, where she was v-p, sales & strategy, and associate publisher of the Little Bigfoot imprint. Earlier Abrami worked in trade sales at Chronicle Books for seven years.
Amanda Weirich joins Chronicle Books in the newly created position of director of international sales and subsidiary rights, reporting to Abrami. She formerly worked at Ingram Publisher Services, leading international sales, marketing, and promotional activities for hundreds of independent publishers across all of Ingram's distribution brands. Most recently, Weirich led global retail marketing strategy for Ingram's publisher distribution business. Earlier she worked at Perseus Books Group and Penguin Random House.
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Todd Doughty has been promoted to senior v-p, deputy publisher, publicity and communications, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, and will take on the additional responsibility of overseeing the subrights group. He joined Random House more than 25 years ago. After 16 years at Doubleday overseeing publicity, he began to lead marketing strategy for the imprint as well, before taking on a group-wide leadership role at Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group in 2021.