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Rosie de Courcy joins Dolby at Random

23.05.07

Veteran publisher Rosie de Courcy has joined Trevor Dolby's new imprint at Random House. She starts immediately as publishing director of the as-yet unnamed imprint, with plans to publish in the region of 6 to 8 novels each year.

Dolby joined forces with the Random House Group last month to form an independent imprint within Richard Cable's "blue sky" division. Dolby said: "When I first discussed the imprint with Random House, Rosie was the only person I wanted to publish the fiction. She is quite simply an iconic publisher, one of the great editors of the last 25 years. It’s a privilege and a thrill that she’s agreed to join me."

De Courcy was a founding member of three start ups in British publishing – Futura, Century and Orion. Most recently she has been editor at Little, Brown UK. She added: "I enormously liked and respected Trevor when we were colleagues at Orion. What he and Random House have now created seems to me very enlightened, combining as it does the big umbrella with the creativity and flexibility of an independent imprint. The opportunity to build a fiction list in such a special environment does not come along very often in a publishing lifetime, and it is one which I find quite irresistible."

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