IN DEPTH
REBECCA FOLLAND LEFT JANKLOW & NESBIT AFTER A 13-YEAR STAY TO JOIN HACHETTE
Company Spotlight Rebecca Folland
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Frankfurt fiend Folland on crossing the aisle
Rebecca Folland left Janklow & Nesbit after more than a decade to return to rights-trading in-house for a publisher, leading a team of eight under the watch of Jamie Hodder- Williams at Hachette’s HHJQ division
Tom Tivnan @tomtivnan
TheBookseller.com
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ebecca Folland crossing the floor from agency to publisher a year ago was a big deal, but not Churchill-going-over-to-the-Liberals big, or even
as big as Tory MP Philip Lee defecting to the Lib Dems, as Boris Johnson was mid-speech, a few weeks ago. No, while Folland had been happily ensconced as rights director for Janklow & Nesbit UK, she had worked for the “other side” before, starting her books career at Frances Lincoln and later spending eight years at Penguin. But it was a good old stretch at Janklow, 13 years, and in fact she was the first rights director for the British outpost of the agency. But the lure of “being back in a publisher and seeing the whole process was irresistible”. It was a bigger job, too, as Folland now heads a rights team of eight which encompasses Hodder, Headline, John Murray Press and Quercus. And just a week before FBF, she was given additional responsibilit of heading up a forum for all Hachete UK rights directors, to “harness shared knowledge and experience”. At the core, there is not all that much difference Continues overleaf
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