Random House’s Crown Publishing Group is reorganizing the sprawling division into “three major editorial areas” focused on “core strengths: general interest nonfiction and fiction; branded/category books; and four-color and lifestyle books,” announced yesterday. Crown itself and Broadway will come together to comprise the general interest trade line, with a search for a new executive underway. In the interim, the Crown and Broadway editors will report to recently-appointed Crown Group president Maya Mavjee. The Shaye Areheart Books imprint is being “discontinued” and Areheart will take the position of editor-at-large for Crown, where she will “edit authors with whom she has had […]
