Industry Moves

From PW Children’s Bookshelf:

Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing has a promotion and two new hires. Alexa Pastor has been promoted to editor at Atheneum Books; previously she was associate editor at Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers. Rachel Berquist has joined as education and library marketing assistant; she was previously marketing and sales project coordinator for Partner in Publishing. Amanda Livingston has joined as education and library marketing assistant.

Abrams has two new hires. Mary Marolla has joined as children’s publicist; previously she had her own PR company, Mare Public Relations. Borana Greku has joined as marketing manager; she was most recently associate marketing manager at Macmillan Audio.

Vanessa DeJesús has joined Penguin Young Readers as publicist; previously she was an associate publicist at Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing.