Janson-Smith “Tempted” Back to Publishing After a short walk on the agenting side, Patrick Janson-Smith is joining Harper UK to launch a new commercial imprint, Blue Door, “focusing primarily on fiction.” Part of Press Books, he will report to managing director John Bond. Janson-Smith remarks, “Being given one’s own imprint is not only a great honor, it’s also a challenge; one to which I have every intention of rising.” He was publisher of the UK’s Transworld from 1981 to 2005, when he left to join the Christopher Little Agency — which he departed last year November, initially to form his […]
