Random House editor-in-chief Susan Kamil has been promoted to publisher of the Random House and Dial Press imprints, Random House Publishing Group publisher and president Gina Cantrello announced today.
Cantrello’s release cited Kamil’s “skill of identifying and editing literary titles that can cross over into national bestsellerdom,” including The Imperfectionists and The Read More
Random House just announced the hiring of Andy Ward, a longtime magazine editor who has spent the past six years at GQ. Mr. Ward, who will serve as an executive editor at Random House’s flagship imprint under editor-in-chief Susan Kamil, leaves behind Condé Nast at a time when the company is playing host to a Read More
David Oliver Relin, the journalist who co-wrote the 2006 bestseller Three Cups of Tea with mountain-climber-turned-humanitarian Greg Mortenson, has left Viking Penguin and signed with Random House for his next book. Tentatively titled See How They Shine, Mr. Relin’s book will follow two doctors on a mission around the world to cure blindness. Susan Kamil, Read More
The last debut novel to generate as much excitement among fiction editors as Tom Rachman’s The Imperfectionists did this week was Reif Larsen’s The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet, which made the rounds back in June. Susan Kamil, the editorial director of Dial Press, tried to preempt Mr. Larsen’s book for half a million Read More
Tech journalist John Biggs, who edits the blog CrunchGear.com and has contributed to The New York Times, has signed a contract with Susan Kamil at the Dial Press to write a book called Marie Antoinette’s Watch.
The book will tell the story of an impossibly elaborate wristwatch that one of Marie Antoinette’s lovers commissioned Read More
This week, I want to pick a fight over cats and dogs. Cats versus dogs. O.K., it’s a bit of a departure from the high seriousness of my recent columns on Shakespearean exceptionalism. But I believe, in at least a half -serious way, that there are important truths that need to be examined, some myths Read More
