Rosi Crawley joins Bloomsbury Children’s Books as publicity director

Rosi Crawley will join Bloomsbury Children’s Books as publicity director in April 2025, reporting to Nicola Hill, group director of consumer marketing and publicity.

Publicity director Beatrice Cross will leave Bloomsbury at the end of January, for a move to the North West and a freelance career, but will continue to work with Bloomsbury in a freelance capacity during the transition period and on some key ongoing campaigns. Crawley will head up the children’s trade publicity team, working with senior publicity manager Emily Marples, publicity executive Isabelle Tucker and publicity assistant Deborah Ogunnoiki.

The newly appointed publicity director has been at Walker Books for nearly nine years, most recently managing the publicity team and working with high-profile authors and illustrators including Patrick Ness, Sophie Dahl, Michael Rosen and Anthony Horowitz, as well as Jon Klassen, Laura Dockrill and Caroline O’Donoghue. She also led the team working on the the campaign for Angie Thomas’ debut The Hate U Give.

Before joining Walker, Crawley held roles at Bonnier, HarperCollins, Random House and the BookTrust, where she worked on Malorie Blackman’s Laureateship, including the creation of the Young Adult Literature Convention (YALC).

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