Raewyn Davies went to Penguin Books NZ in January last year on a 12 month maternity cover contract for Philippa Muller who has since decided not to return to full time work. Raewyn has now secured a permanent role as Publicity Manager, a new position at Penguin.
Penguin also announced that Rachel Dewhurst (soon to be ex Random) will join them on Feb 1 so their publicity line will be:
Publicity Manager: Raewyn Davies
raewyn.davies@nz.penguingroup.com
Publicist: Rachel Dewhurst
rachel.dewhurst@nz.penguingroup.com (email active from Feb 1)
Publicity Coordinator: Liz West
liz.west@nz.penguingroup.com
Children's Publicity: Lyn Olds
lyn.olds@nz.penguin.com
And yesterday Random House NZ announced the appointment of Yvonne Thynne, formerly Hachette, as Publicity Manager from Feb.1.
Gina Colcord, formerly Penguin, and Sarah Thornton, formerly Random, both left their senior corporate posts in December to start up their own freelance businesses:
Gina Colcord
GC COMMUNICATIONS Mob: 029 770 8109 Tel: 09 416 5354
Publicity, Marketing, Tours, Events
PO Box 84-382, Westgate, Massey 0657, Auckland
gina@gccommunications.co.nz
Sarah Thornton
PR Communications
PO Box 31954, Milford, Auckland 0741
sarah.thornton@prcomms.com
And Rachel Dewhurst is being replaced at Random House by Caitlyn Ellwood : CEllwood@randomhouse.co.nz
Whew !
1 comment:
Four full time publicity people! It makes boutique publishers like us where everybody is a "multi-tasker" quite envious.
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