QUERCUS EDITIONS - Key Persons
Anna Smith has been a journalist for over twenty years and is a former chief reporter for the Daily Record in Glasgow. She has covered wars across the world as well as major investigations and news stories from Dunblane to Kosovo to 9/11. Anna spends her time between Lanarkshire and Dingle in the west of Ireland, as well as in Spain to escape the British weather.
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- Senior Rights Manager - JMP Trade and Hodder Studio
I started my career in scouting before moving to Abner Stein, where I worked for 12 years, latterly as an agent. During that time, I was primarily selling American authors to British publishers whilst also moonlighting as a bookseller. I joined Hachette as a Senior Rights Manager in August 2021, working in direct territories across the John Murray Press Trade and Hodder Studio titles in addition to co-agented territories for Hodder & Stoughton. I also handle serial rights.
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Dr Andrew Ormerod is a botanist who holds an honours degree in Agricultural Botany and a doctorate in Plant Breeding. He has held positions at Reading University and Unilever Research and is Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Kent. He worked at the Eden Project for 15 years, from when it first opened in 1998, and where he was involved in plant procurement for the exhibits. He regularly lectures, gives tours and is the author of the successful plant blog, Cornucopiaalchemy.
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- Deputy Rights Director / Head of Rights - Quercus
My first role in publishing was with Orion as an assistant to the promotional books team but I quickly found my way to the rights department and I have specialised in licencing intellectual property rights ever since. I have worked in both trade and co-edition publishing and in 2006 I was asked to join Quercus to found their rights department. I have worked with many authors and editors on a myriad of books, from the illustrated non fiction to epic fantasy and translated literary fiction, selling in domestic, translation and English language rights.
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- Head of Rights - Headline
I joined the rights team in 2014 as a Rights Assistant after an internship with literary scouts Louise Allen Jones.
I was made Senior Rights Manager in 2020 and handled translation rights across Hodder and John Murray in all our co-agented territories, as well as serial rights across Hodder. I looked after the Hodder Studio list and sold translation rights in all direct and co-agented territories. I am now Head of Rights for Headline.
I joined Hachette as a Rights Executive in July 2021 after two years at Quarto Publishing. I look after translation rights for the John Murray Professional lists - John Murray Learning, Nicholas Brealey, Jessica Kingsley, Sheldon Press and Hodder Faith - in all direct and co-agented territories in Europe, Middle East and Latin America.
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- Student and Professional', for Gorgeous Books by Experts on Architecture, Art, Design, Fashion and Photography
Laurence King ‘Student and Professional', for gorgeous books by experts on architecture, art, design, fashion and photography
Job Titles:
- Head of Rights - John Murray Press Professional
I joined the HHJQ Rights Department in August 2021 after seven years at Springer Nature Group. Throughout my career I have been selling and negotiating multiple types of rights licenses for various imprints and repertoires. I am passionate about licensing and rights, championing their value as a member of PLS Rights Management Group. I am now Head of Rights for John Murray Press Professional imprints (John Murray Learning, Nicholas Brealey, Sheldon Press, Jessica Kingsley, Hodder Faith), responsible for negotiating various types of licenses including selling translation rights in all direct and co-agented Asian territories.
Job Titles:
- Head of Rights - Hodder & Stoughton
I joined the Rights Department in November 2017 after 7 years at Blake Friedmann Agency. I am now Head of Rights for Hodder & Stoughton, selling translation rights in all direct territories and serial rights across the division.
I joined the Rights Department as Rights Director in September 2018 and have over 20 years' of experience of selling rights in a range of environments from publishing houses to, most recently literary agenting. As well as managing the team, I am responsible for handling US rights across all four divisions.
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- Rights Assistant - John Murray & Quercus
I joined the department as a Rights Assistant in June 2021. I mainly work across the Hodder & Stoughton and Headline imprints, handling production material and general rights queries.
I joined the Rights team in June 2021 as a Rights Assistant. I currently work across John Murray Press and Quercus, providing administrative support to the team and handling production material sales.