Lindsay Sagnette has been named senior editor at Crown Publishers, reporting to Molly Stern. Sagnette, who was most recently a senior editor at St. Martin's Press, will start at Crown on November 15. At SMP she acquired and edited literary fiction and nonfiction, such as William Ryan’s thriller trilogy, starting with The Holy Thief. Sagnette began her editorial career at Riverhead in 2000, later moving to Grove/Atlantic and Bloomsbury.