Viking Penguin has promoted Liz Van Hoose to editor. Van Hoose has been at Viking since 2008, working on fiction and nonfiction, and on the re-launch of Penguin’s resident Scandinavian crime writer, Åke Edwardson. Van Hoose has two books due out next month: Dan Morrison’s The Black Nile: One Man’s Amazing Journey Through Peace and War on the World’s Longest River, and James King’s Bill Warrington’s Last Chance, which won the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award.