After more than six months without a publisher, the trade division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt announced today that Bruce Nichols, late of HarperCollins, has been hired for the position. Mr. Nichols, who is on vacation and could not immediately be reached for comment, replaces Becky Saletan, who resigned in December and joined Penguin’s Read More
More than a year after Collins publisher Steve Ross and his boss at HarperCollins met with representatives from The Wall Street Journal to discuss the possibility of a partnership, the ink is finally dry. The first book The Journal will publish through Collins, The Wall Street Journal Guide to the End of Wall Street As Read More
Collins, a division of HarperCollins, agreed to pay legendary Celtics center Bill Russell, 74, over $1 million dollars to write a book about his old coach, the late Red Auerbach. Hard to know, as always, whether that figure is just someone’s guess or the real thing. We heard it from two sources, but Collins publisher Read More
Steve Ross, president and publisher of the Collins division at HarperCollins, is at the Ziegfeld right now, a couple of blocks from the company tower, seeing the Rolling Stones concert film Shine a Light with his entire staff. Mr. Ross said in an e-mail that it was a morale-boosting event—a Friday tradition, in fact, that Read More
Matthew Benjamin, the editor best known for acquiring surprise blockbusters The Dangerous Book for Boys and The Daring Book for Girls, is coming back to the Collins division of HarperCollins after a seven month-long stint at the indie house Workman Publishing. He will serve as a senior editor in the wellness/lifestyle unit of the division, Read More
The Collins division of HarperCollins had gone almost two weeks without announcing a new hire. That ended this morning when they sent out a press release about Caroline Sutton, whom they’ve recruited from Ballantine and installed as executive editor within their health/wellness operation.
Ms. Sutton is the fourth executive editor Collins has hired since January. Read More
Adam Bellow, the conservative editor and author known for publishing books like The Bell Curve, David Brock’s The Real Anita Hill, and Dinesh D’Souza’s Illiberal Education, has left Doubleday for a senior position at Collins, the once quite invisible reference imprint of HarperCollins that has, in recent months, been taking aggressive steps towards recasting itself Read More
Former Ballantine editor-in-chief Nancy Miller has been made an executive editor and vice president at Collins, an imprint of HarperCollins, according to a memo sent to staff this afternoon.
Ms. Miller is only the latest new hire at Collins, which is growing and undergoing a makeover at the hands of its relatively Read More
