Colleen Kurzbach is joining the Hachette Book Group sales team as director of title management, effective September 3. She has 28 years of sales experience in the book world, including the last 10 years as senior director of title management for the Knopf and Penguin Publishing Groups at Penguin Random House.
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Mikey LaFave has been promoted to operations manager at Avid Bookshop, Athens, Ga. The store noted, "Mikey began bookselling in 2022 and is known among friends for never failing to sneak a book into the most random of situations, including hiking the gorge floor at Tallulah, seeing their favorite bands at any number of venues, and the 20 minutes of movie previews at the movie theater. They enjoy essays, poetry, horror, literary fiction, and anything that can be called spooky, weird, strange and unusual. Plus, they love perusing and recommending from Avid's children's book and young adult book selections. You can catch them around town reading in bars and other non-conventional spaces (but please don't startle them!), going on hikes, or watching spooky and/or strange (and mostly horror) movies."
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Erin Powell has joined Macmillan as sales assistant, field sales.