Quadrille has made a series of promotions and appointments within its sales teams, with Melanie Gray stepping up to become UK sales director, joining the board at the independent publisher.
The moves follow Faber's launch of indie sales force Faber Factory Plus, with Quadrille sales director Ian West leaving the company to join the new project in October as sales director.
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HarperCollins has appointed Katrina Troy, currently head of commercial affairs for Vintage and Mainstream Publishing, as commercial director for its fiction division.
Troy will join in January 2012 and report to group commercial director Tom Fussell. She will work with fiction publisher Kate Elton and be involved in acquisitions, budgets and forecasting.
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Vampirates author and long-time children's book publicist Justin Somper has set up Author Profile, a training company aimed at helping authors navigate the media and social networking.
Writers including Damian Kelleher, Graham Marks, Anita Naik and Jeremy Finch will be among the trainers in the new venture, co-founded by learning and development specialist Phillip Norman. Somper will run in-house training days for individual publishers and agents and well as out-of-house training for authors to book onto direct.
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Orion non-fiction publishing director Rowland White is moving back to Penguin in the role of publishing director for Michael Joseph.
White will focus on mainstream non-fiction and thriller-based fiction, and will report to MJ m.d. Louise Moore. Before joining Orion, he had previously worked for Penguin for 12 years.
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Hachette UK has appointed Matt Wright to the role of managing director distribution, effective immediately, promoting him from his role as finance director of Hachette Distribution.
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HarperCollins has hired an executive at Turner Broadcasting System Europe, which owns CNN, as its new chief operating officer.
Laura Meyer replaces Julian Thomas, who left the publisher in July after four years. She joins in mid-January 2012, will report to chief operating officer Keith Mullock and will sit on the HC executive board. Her initial responsibility will be upgrading the publisher's systems to deal with the change towards digital.
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Little, Brown science fiction and fantasy imprint Orbit has appointed Jenni Hill, previously of Solaris Books, as commissioning editor.
Hill will report to editorial director Anne Clarke, and will take up her post on 31st October. While at Solaris, she worked with authors including James Lovegrove, Gail Z Martin and Emily Gee.
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Hot Key Books has hired HarperCollins' head of children's sales as its new sales and marketing director.
Kate Manning will join the publisher on 2nd January 2012 and will be responsible for a fiction list comprising between 30 and 50 titles per year.
Manning has also worked at Simon & Schuster, Pan Macmillan, Random House and Waterstone's.
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Angry Robot has appointed Little, Brown online marketing manager Darren Turpin to the role of marketing and digital manager.
Turpin will join the company on 7th November and report directly to Marc Gascoigne, publishing director of the science fiction and fantasy imprint. He will work on promoting all Angry Robot titles, as well as developing some new digital initiatives.
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Transworld has appointed Michelle Signore, currently editor-in-chief at John Blake, to the role of editorial director.
Signore will join Transworld on 17th October, and will report to publishing director Doug Young.
Signore said: "Working at John Blake for the last 12 years has been a wonderful experience and enormous fun. To be able to help build on the outstanding non-fiction list at Transworld, however, is the most amazing opportunity—I can't wait to join the team there and get started."
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Random House has made a series of promotions, including several to entirely new roles, in its group digital, operations, strategy and commercial teams led by deputy director c.e.o. Ian Hudson.
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Irish publisher New Island has appointed Eoin Purcell as the company’s commissioning editor.
Purcell is editor and founder of Irish Publishing News and has previously worked for Mercier Press and The History Press Ireland. He recently published the non-fiction title A Little Circle Of Kindred Minds: Joyce In Paris by Conor Fennell through his company Green Lamp Media.
Edwin Higel, publisher of New Island, said: "We are excited to have someone with Eoin's experience join the team, he is a welcome asset to New Island."
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Quercus has appointed a new finance director and reshuffled its board of directors.
Paul Lenton, a chartered accountant who last worked on establishing a new London operation for US advertising agency Creature London, will begin his role as finance director for Quercus today (30th August).
Mike McGrath, Paul Lenton's predecessor, has now taken on a wider role as executive director of group sales and will oversee all of Quercus' sales, marketing, rights, co-edition and publicity efforts worldwide.
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Bloomsbury has appointed Charlotte Atyeo to the newly created role of publisher of sport and Wisden within the adult trade division.
Commissioning editor Charlotte Croft will move into Atyeo's previous role as head of the sports and fitness department at A&C Black, publishing coaching and reference books.
Atyeo will continue in her role as publisher of John Wisden & Co, and continue to commission with Matthew Engel for the Wisden Sports Writing imprint which launches this autumn with Patrick Collins' Among the Fans.
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HarperCollins has promoted Vikki van Someren to group commercial director. She will be responsible for overseeing the publisher's non-traditional retail business.
Van Someren's new job, in addition to her role as head of creative solutions, will see her report to Simon Johnson, HarperCollins managing director. She will be responsible for setting up commercial partnerships for new and existing non-traditional retailers.
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Kirsten Grant, campaigns director at Puffin, will leave Penguin at the end of the month to become a freelance children's marketing specialist.
Grant has 15 years of experience in the children's market and has been involved in the launch and reimagining of brands and authors including Eoin Colfer, Young Bond, Percy Jackson and Cathy Cassidy.
Grant established Roald Dahl Day as an annual school and retail event, and headed up the Puffin 70th anniversary and Very Hungry Caterpillar 40th anniversary campaigns.
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Penguin General has combined its publicity and marketing teams into a single communications department, with publicity director Amelia Fairney becoming communications director of Penguin General.
The role of marketing director has been made redundant, with Jane Rose therefore leaving the company after five years.
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Lonely Planet has appointed Sheema Mookherjee as publisher for its Indian publishing arm.
Mookerherjee's most recent role was looking after HarperCollins India's non-fiction and reference lists, and she started work at Lonely Planet in Delhi on Monday (13th June).
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Headline non-fiction publisher Carly Cook is to join Simon & Schuster as deputy editorial director of non-fiction, reporting to editorial director Mike Jones.
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Press Books m.d. John Bond is leaving HarperCollins by the end of June "following a mutual agreement" between himself and HC c.e.o. Victoria Barnsley.
The division, which comprises Fourth Estate and HarperPress, will be run by Barnsley in the short term, assisted by special projects director Katie Fulford. HC said the decision was consistent with its phasing out of divisional managing director positions over the past few years for the likes of Collins and its fiction and non-fiction wings.
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