06 | THE BOOKSELLER ADVERTISEMENT FEATURE
MACMILLAN MOMENTS
“When our authors and illustrators visit us, the whole company, more than 200 people, greets them in reception. It’s always an amazing moment when they arrive and see how enthusiastic and how involved everyone is in what they create.”
TOM COOKSON, HEAD OF STRATEGIC FINANCE
“When I’m in a bookshop, I love seeing people pick up Macmillan books. And sometimes I want to grab them and say: ‘thank you so much’.
CAROLINE HOGG, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, FICTION
“One of my favourite moments has been a recent book we published with the Nelson Mandela Foundation, Dare not Linger, going out to the archive in South Africa and holding Mandela’s writing in my hand. And seeing the book out in the world, that’s pretty amazing.”
GEORGE MORLEY, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, NON FICTION
“I love the fact that even if you’re quite junior, or quite new, it’s considered that you’ve got something valuable to give to the company, which I really love. It’s friendly.”
LOUISE DRAKE, INSIGHT AND DATA MANAGER, PUBLISHING OPERATIONS
“The person I’ve worked with that embodies the spirit of Macmillan would be Julia Donaldson. I’ve had a really fantastic time working with her over the years mainly on the Gruffalo website. The way that she thinks about children and about her work, and how passionate she is and how everything is kind of home-made as well. It really embodies what we do at Macmillan.”
JAMES LONG, PUBLISHING OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
“I think my favourite moment since I’ve been at Macmillan was Picador having two books on the Man Booker Prize shortlist. I don’t think that happens very often but we had A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara and The Year of the Runaways by Sunjeev Sahota. And it was just such a brilliant and exciting time. The next 175 years for Macmillan . . . I think that we’ve been great at finding new talent. That’s something that, at Picador, we’re trying to do all the time across poetry, fiction and non-fiction. We’ve been working to make Picador the home of international writing again, so have been growing our list of titles in translation. I think that what Macmillan does really well is taking care of our authors and building them, building their brands. So, hopefully, another 175 years of that.”
ANSA KHAN KHATTAK, EDITOR, PICADOR
“Macmillan is more than the sum of its parts… I think that the creativity, passion and the people create the spirit of Macmillan.”
ANNIKA BERGSTRAND-HENRY, SENIOR FACILITIES MANAGER
“I think one of my favourite moments from working at Pan Macmillan would be the creation of the Two Hoots list. It’s a fantastic high-quality list. It’s the taste of Suzanne Carnell, its fantastic publisher and it’s just brilliant fun to work with the top creative people in the world.”
CHRIS INNS, ART DIRECTOR, MACMILLAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS
“Something that’s been really influential for me personally has been working with Ann Cleeves who’s such a passionate advocate for libraries. And its proved really infectious for me. So, I’m now a real library fan and really understand why we should all be getting behind them, so that’s been really influential for me.
CHARLOTTEWILLIAMS, SENIOR BRAND MANAGER
“The joy of being small with the power of being big. I think being in that sweet spot in the industry is quite a special place to be, as we can continue to be fleet of foot and small as well as important and opinionated and big.”
SOPHIE BREWER, ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER, EDITORIAL MANAGEMENT, ADULT BOOKS
“What I really hope we will remember is that the reason we’ve got to where we are is that we have this incredible creativity and compassion and a great sense of humour. And I hope we always manage to keep that at the heart of everything we do.”
CAROLINE HOGG, EDITORIAL DIRECTOR, FICTION
“The funniest thing I think that’s ever happened was a couple of years ago when we were doing the 150th anniversary publishing for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. As part of the overall programme in the marketing we’d had a white rabbit costume made, a seven foot tall white rabbit. We were all sitting in one of the glass-walled meeting rooms having our weekly acquisitions meeting and someone was testing the suit, so we were deep in thought and discussion about which books to buy. Suddenly, this giant white rabbit walked passed the meeting room and everyone froze and went silent and watched. It was a really surreal moment, but it was really fantastic and very funny.”
JAMES LUSCOMBE, WEB OPERATIONS DIRECTOR
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