Karen Thomas Leaves Dafina

From PW Daily:

Karen Thomas, who helped found Kensington’s very successful African-American
imprint Dafina, left the company earlier this month for a spot at another house,
reportedly Hachette, though PW Daily was unable to confirm her new job this
morning. Kensington president Steve Zacharius said he expects to announce a
replacement for Thomas, who had been with Kensington for nine year, over the
next couple of weeks.

Wow. I had lunch with Karen some weeks ago to write a PW piece about Dafina's new young adult line. Dafina is her baby. It will be interesting to see what she'll be doing at Warner/Hachette. I wonder what Kensington will do without her? I wonder who the successor will be? I'm all curious.