Carleen Madigan has been promoted to editorial director of Storey Publishing, from executive editor.

Rick Richter has been named a senior partner at Aevitas Creative Management; he was previously partner.

Simon & Schuster has two promotions. Morgan Maple has been promoted to senior publicist, from publicist. Lisa Quach has been promoted to senior marketing manager for Aladdin, Little Simon, Simon Spotlight, Simon Pulse, MTV Books, and McElderry Books, from marketing manager.

Dev Kamath has joined Little Bee Books as a design assistant.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has two promotions and a new hire. Emily Ritter has been promoted to assistant director of digital marketing (teen), from senior marketing manager. Nadia Almahdi has been promoted to assistant director of digital marketing (kids), from senior marketing manager. John Medina is joining as digital marketing assistant.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has seven promotions. Krista Vitola has been promoted to executive editor at S&S Books for Young Readers, from senior editor. Deeba Zargarpur has been promoted to senior editor at S&S Books for Young Readers and Salaam Reads, from editor. Kate Prosswimmer has been promoted to senior editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books, from editor. Nicole Fiorica has been promoted to editor at Margaret K. McElderry Books, from associate editor. Alyza Liu has been promoted to editor at S&S Books for Young Readers, from associate editor. Dainese Santos has been promoted to associate editor at S&S Books for Young Readers and Salaam Reads, from assistant editor. Remi Moon has been promoted to marketing coordinator, from marketing assistant.

HarperCollins Children's Books has two promotions. Alyssa Miele has been promoted to senior editor at Quill Tree Books, from editor. Megan Pagano has been promoted to director of sales forecasting and analysis, from manager.

Alice Gelber has joined Little, Brown Books for Young Readers as marketing assistant.

Colleen O’Connell has been promoted to executive director, marketing at HarperCollins Children's Books, from senior director.

Deidra Purvis has joined Free Spirit Publishing as acquisitions editor, children and teens; previously she was director of classroom services at Mackin Educational Resources.

Macmillan Children's Publishing Group has several promotions. Morgan Kane has been promoted to director of publicity, from associate director of publicity. Avia Perez has been promoted to senior production editor, from production editor. Elysse Villalobos has been promoted to associate marketing manager, from marketing coordinator. Ashley Caswell has been promoted to designer, from associate designer. Carina Licon has been promoted to assistant editor at Henry Holt Books for Young Readers, from editorial assistant. Emilia Sowersby has been promoted to assistant editor at Roaring Brook Press, from editorial assistant.

Chronicle Books' children’s department has three promotions. Ariel Richardson has been promoted to senior editor, from editor. Daria Harper has been promoted to editor, from associate editor. Elizabeth Lazowski has been promoted to associate editor, from assistant editor.

At Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing, Danielle Collins has been promoted to assistant editor at Paula Wiseman Books and Beach Lane Books, from editorial assistant.

Mary Marotta will join Candlewick Press as senior v-p, sales, North America on November 21. She will be responsible for print and digital sales strategy and execution in the U.S. and Canada. Most recently she was senior v-p, group sales director for Knopf Doubleday; she also served as senior v-p, North America at DK, was deputy publisher for the children’s division and v-p, director of children’s sales at Simon & Schuster, and before that worked in sales and marketing roles at Scholastic, William Morrow, and Bantam Doubleday Dell.

Lizzie Goodell has been promoted to publicity manager at Penguin Young Readers, from senior publicist.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing has two promotions in its Aladdin imprint. Jessica Smith has been promoted to editor, from associate editor. Kilson Roque-Fernandez has been promoted to assistant editor, from editorial assistant.

Elissa Gershowitz has been named editor-in-chief of the Horn Book; she was previously executive editor.

At Candlewick Press, Katlyn Stokarski has been promoted to commercial operations manager, from commercial operations supervisor.

Bree Martinez has joined Holiday House, Peachtree, and Pixel+Ink as publicist. She previously worked at BookClub as content experience manager and manager of author outreach/client relations and before that was associate publicist at Penguin Young Readers.