Crisp promoted to Tor editorial director

Julie Crisp has been promoted to the position of editorial director for Tor UK, the science fiction and fantasy imprint of Pan Macmillan.

Previously the senior commissioning editor for the imprint, a role she held for two years, Crisp will report to fiction publisher Jeremy Trevathan. Previously she was a commissioning editor on the crime list at Pan Macmillan.

Trevathan said: "I'm delighted to announce Julie's promotion. It is an indication of our commitment to make Tor UK one of the leading imprints in its field in the UK and to become an appropriate sister company to the illustrious Tor imprint in the US, the market leader."

Crisp’s list of authors includes China Mièville, Neal Asher, Mark Charan Newton, Adrian Tchaikovsky and Peter F Hamilton among others