Random House CEO Leaves
By Jane • May 5th, 2008 • Category: Publishing News • •Peter W. Olson has run Random House since 1998 but will be stepping down in the next couple of weeks due to lowered profits and “steep losses in its American book clubs.” I have no idea what effect that will have on Bantam/Dell or Ballantine, but I’ve always found those houses to offer great promotional packages for its authors.
Source: Huffington Post.
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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Oh, darn. I’m with Random House and it has been wonderful for me personally.
Hmm…I know how to improve their profits. However, the mere suggestion of it makes a lot of authors want to tar and feather me.
Ann (who’s ruthless with cost-cutting at the day job)