Agent Emma Parry has left Fletcher Parry “to pursue new challenges” as of July 1. Partner Christy Fletcher will take over Parry’s clients and continue to work non-exclusively with UK agents alongside Melissa Chinchillo, recently promoted to full agent and rights director. “New additions” to the agency’s staff are planned for the fall and Fletcher will retain the name “for the time being.”
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Stefanie Bierwerth is leaving Macmillan UK for Michael Joseph, where she will be editorial director for crime, report to fiction publisher Mari Evans. Helen Boomer joins Harper Children’s today as executive director of subsidiary rights. She was subsidiary rights director for Viking and Puffin Children’s.
On Gordon Cader
[This entry was originally sent by email on November 4, 2004, and was not posted to the site. Others wound up reposting it to the web, though those sites have since expired, so this has been posted after the fact and backdated for posterity.] We have an oddly personal relationship going here, you and I, in this daily conversation about publishing that occasionally diverges, from my little wisecracks to broken refrigerators, school events, and back again. As mentioned on Monday, I’ve had anniversaries on my mind this week– though today’s occasion is of an entirely different nature. As a result, […]