Hal Hlavinka has been promoted to director, account marketing and sales planning, at Penguin Random House. Hlavinka has worked in a variety of areas while at PRH, including organizing, managing, and/or collaborating with the ABA's Indies Introduce program, regional shows, Winter Institute, sales meetings, the signed stock program, author events, a range of marketing initiatives, and more. Before joining PRH in 2017, he was in charge of events at the Community Bookstore, Brooklyn, N.Y.
"Hal embodies our conference mantra, which is: if we set things up right, it is possible to work incredibly hard, connect with our colleagues, and have fun, all on the same day," Ruth Liebmann, v-p, account marketing at PRH, wrote in part in a memo to staff about the promotion. "He brilliantly balances the wishes and dreams of his colleagues with the hard practicalities of logistics, technology, and scheduling. He brings a spirit of cheerful innovation to everything he does, and has a relentless drive for improving how we work together on behalf of our books and authors. Above all: no matter how crazy things get, he never loses his cool, nor his bookseller instinct for helping us feel the magic whenever and wherever we gather to talk about books."