Publisher’s Weekly Names Jane Friedman as Person of the Year
By Jane • Dec 6th, 2006 • Category: Publishing News • •Jane Friedman is the CEO of HarperCollins, the parent company of AVON. Since Friedman joined HC in 1997, revenues have increased almost 80%. Per Publishers Weekly.
I read an article once where Friedman talked about a return to the branding of a publisher/imprint than individual authors. I think its interesting to see her success in that as it relates to Avon. For good or bad, Avon is synonymous with a certain type of historical. In a business where marketing dollars are tight this can be good for authors, particularly the underappreciated midlist author. It can also be bad in that a certain type of historical gets tiresome after a while.
Jane is a long time romance reader whose passion is, you guessed it, reading. Jane also does not like to talk about herself in the third person, but apparently this is the way that this biography thing works (although in a true biography, someone else would be writing this blurb). Anyway, currently Jane loves urban fantasy authors Patricia Briggs and Ilona Andrews. She's really excited about this year's crop of historicals including Joanna Bourne's The Spymaster's Lady and Sherry Thomas' Private Arrangements and the upcoming Loretta Chase Her Scandalous Ways.
She's looking for a good contemporary author. Email her with a recommendation!
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