Congratulations to Lianne Sentar, who was just promoted to a new position at Seven Seas Entertainment: publisher! She's done a little bit of everything in the manga industry—writing Sailor Moon novels for Tokyopop, freelancing as an editor, starting her own publishing company—and seems like a perfect fit for the job. In other news, Scholastic will be
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