Sue Fletcher
will retire from Hodder & Stoughton at the end of the year after more than
40 years in publishing. She helped co-found Headline in 1986 before moving to
Hodder in 1993, first as deputy managing director and more recently in an
untitled, at-large editorial position, where she edited authors including Tana
French, Rosamunde Pilcher, and John Connolly.
Once Fletcher leaves the company
the editorial staff will be restructured at a later date.
In a statement Hodder ceo Tim Hely
Hutchinson commented on working with Fletcher for more than 30 years: "Sue
was the key figure in Hodder's renaissance as it set its sights on becoming the
most brilliant publisher of brilliant authors. Since 2002 she has withdrawn
from day-to-day management to concentrate on publishing a superb list of
authors. Sue sets the platinum standard for the qualities that make a great
editor and a fabulous colleague, supporting her authors in every imaginable way
and, less publicly, providing Jamie Hodder-Williams, Martin Neild, many other
colleagues and, for the longest time, me, with constant good-humoured
encouragement, advice, good food, good reading and good fun."
Fletcher added: "I have spent more
than 40 years in this amazing business, and have been especially lucky in my Hodder
and Headline colleagues and the wonderful authors I have worked with. Leaving
them will be a wrench, but 62¾ feels like the right age to make a change. I
plan to spend even more time at the theatre, in the kitchen and beating Martin
Neild to hot new restaurants."
From PublishersLunch
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