As part of all the restructuring at Random House, Susan Kamil, the editorial director of Dial Press, has been named
as editor-in-chief of Little Random.
Separately, a spokesman for the Knopf Publishing Group that assumed control of the Doubleday and Nan A. Talese imprints in the recent reorganization said that there had been layoffs Wednesday in the Doubleday imprint.
A spokesman for the Crown Publishing Group said there had also been an unspecified number of layoffs at the Broadway imprint.
Ms. Kamil, who has headed the Dial Press since 1993, recently shepherded the best-seller "The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society" by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, and has worked with authors including Allegra Goodman and Elizabeth McCracken.
Ms. Kamil will continue in her role as editorial director at Dial while taking on the new editor-in-chief post at what is known colloquially as Little Random. She will report to Gina Centrello, who is president and publisher of the Random House Publishing Group. Under the reorganization announced by Markus Dohle, the chief executive of Random House, Ms. Centrello's empire expanded to include Dial Press, Bantam Dell, and Spiegel & Grau, formerly a part of Doubleday.
Paul Bogaards of the Knopf Publishing Group said that they hope to have all the changes in place by the end of January.
