HarperOne has hired two directors for its publicity department. There had been no director previously. Darcy Cohan and Melinda Mullen will report to Claudia Boutote and begin December 6. Cohan has worked in publicity at PoliPoint Press, Chronicle Books, Avalon Publishing Group, Princeton University Press, Open Book Publicity, and Hunter House Publishers. She also ran her own PR firm, DLC Literary Publicity and Marketing Services. Mullen has worked at Simon & Schuster, Putnam, St. Martin’s, and HarperCollins. She also worked at the PR firms MSCO, Inc. and Gildan Media; co-founded One Potata Productions; and ran MRM PR+Marketing.
Two of the department’s longstanding staffers will continue their roles: associate director Julie Burton and senior director of publicity Suzanne Wickham, although a spokesperson said Wickham will begin to play a larger part on HarperOne’s acquisitions team.
