Thursday, June 21, 2012

Hodder stalwart retires after more than 40 years


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 Since 2002 she has withdrawn from day-to-day management to concentrate on publishing a superb list of authors.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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