Sally Kim was named editorial director at Simon & Schuster's Touchstone imprint. Kim was most recently at HarperCollins, where she was executive editor of the Harper imprint. Before HC, Kim was at the Crown Publishing Group and, before that, St. Martin’s Press. She has been in publishing for 16 years and started in the industry as an assistant at the Sandra Dijkstra Literary Agency. Kim, who's worked with authors such as Lisa Unger and Gillian Flynn, is starting at Touchstone on March 7.
Scott Flora is leaving his job as executive director of the Small Publishers Association of North America (SPAN) and Brad Poulson, the organization's current communications director, will be his successor. Poulson has a varied background and worked for a number of years as education director at the Western Museum of Mining and Industry. Flora will continue to work with SPAN in the volunteer position of board president.
