At Shreve Williams Public Relations:
Chris Artis has been promoted to director of publicity, nonfiction. Before joining the firm more than a decade ago, he was head of editorial communications at Reuters, and held PR and communications positions at Random House, John Wiley & Sons, and Avon Books.
Lauren Hodapp has been promoted to director of publicity. She has held publicity roles with National Geographic, Penguin Press, Hyperion Books, and Knopf.
Deb Shapiro has been promoted to director of publicity, lifestyle, wellness and fiction. She is a former journalist and bookseller with an M.A. in children's literature, and has worked more than 12 years in book publishing, creating and executing publicity and marketing campaigns for Houghton Mifflin, Holt, Simon & Schuster, and Bloomsbury Publishing.