Kate Manning moves from HC to Hot Key

Written By: Graeme Neill Publication Date: Mon, 17/10/2011 - 09:18 Hot Key Books has hired HarperCollins' head of children's sales as its new sales and marketing director. Kate Manning will join the publisher on 2nd January 2012 and will be responsible for a fiction list comprising between 30 and 50 titles per year. Manning has also worked at Simon & Schuster, Pan Macmillan, Random House and Waterstone's. read more Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2011-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]

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