David Shelley promoted at Little, Brown

DAVID Shelley has been promoted to Paperback Publisher for Sphere, part of the Little Brown Group, "a new role which has been created with the needs of the imprint and David's own abilities in mind," said Sphere Publishing Director Antonia Hodgson, to whom he will report. Shelley will continue to run the crime and thriller list and also to manage audio. David was formerly a director at Allison & Busby and was responsible for signing Deryn Lake, infamous for her John Rawlings series (and we won't hold that against you, David).