Hachette’s c.e.o. designate David Shelley is stepping down from the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival’s programming committee after seven years, due to work demands. His place will be filled by Julia Wisdom, publisher for HarperFiction’s crime and thriller list. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2017-10-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
Killer Reads, HarperFiction’s new digital-first crime and thriller list, has made its first acquisitions through an open submission process it held last summer. Sarah Hodgson, deputy publishing director and Kate Stephenson, editor, have acquired three new titles from the hundreds of... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-02-03 00:00:00 UTC ]
Keshini Naidoo, formerly commissioning editor at Avon, has joined digital publisher Bookouture as senior commissioning editor and has already acquired four books from debut novelist Angela Marsons. Naidoo is taking on particular responsibility for the crime and thriller list. Her first... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-10-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
HarperCollins is launching a new digital-first crime and thriller list, which will begin... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-08-04 00:00:00 UTC ]
Publication Date: Wed, 24/08/2011 - 09:21 Rachel Rayner is to move from HarperCollins to Transworld, taking up the role of commissioning editor, crime and thrillers. Rayner will report to Sarah Adams, publishing director, crime and thrillers. Rayner began her publishing career at Ebury before... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-08-24 00:00:00 UTC ]
Written By: Charlotte Williams Publication Date: Thu, 16/06/2011 - 09:03 Cornerstone has appointed Selina Walker, currently publishing director of Transworld's crime and thriller list, to the role of publisher for Century and Arrow. Walker will begin her role in mid-July, following 11 years... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2011-06-16 00:00:00 UTC ]