Business News

HarperCollins Publishing Director to join Quercus Publishing

Tuesday 05. April 2011 - Quercus Publishing Plc is delighted to announce that Susan Watt is joining the company to launch a new imprint, Heron Books.

Heron Books will create a small and varied list of both fiction and non-fiction titles and the imprint will take Quercus into new subject areas and genres. The first title for Heron Books, Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening, will be released on 28 April 2011.
Susan has for the last twelve years been Publishing Director at HarperCollins and before that she was the Publishing Director of Michael Joseph. Notable titles that Susan has commissioned are The Dangerous Book for Boys and Jeremy Paxman’s The English.
Susan says: “I am so interested in finding original, even quirky, talent in writing every kind of book, storytelling in both non-fiction and fiction – and of course particularly fascinated in finding books that suit the rapidly expanding group of new middle age, who have the time to read as well as the means to buy”
Mark Smith, Chief Executive of Quercus commented: “Susan has an outstanding track record in both spotting talent and commissioning groundbreaking ideas and I am thrilled that she has chosen to join us. Our imprints – Maclehose Press, Jo Fletcher Books and now Heron Books complement the core Quercus publishing programme and we all look forward to the projects and authors that Susan will bring.