Two years after she was dismissed from her position as svp, publisher of Crown in a reorganization after it was merged into the Random House Publishing Group, Molly Stern has formally announced her new independent publishing company, Zando (named for her sons, Zach and Oscar). The company is backed by “a significant start-up investment” from Sister, the studio founded in 2019 by Elisabeth Murdoch, Stacey Snider and Jane Featherstone. Those three all sit on Zando’s board of directors, along with Matthew Lieber of Gimlet, and producer David Benioff. Murdoch says “Molly and Sister have a huge passion for new voices” […]
