Scribner's Rowan Cope promoted to associate publisher

Rowan Cope, previously editorial director, has been promoted to associate publisher at Simon & Schuster imprint Scribner.

Cope, who joined Scribner from Little, Brown in 2014 to acquire fiction and non-fiction, was tasked with coordinating the official launch of Scribner's new list in April 2015 and is credited in enabling it "to grow rapidly and successfully".

Her titles have included The North Water by Ian McGuire, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She also published The Japanese Lover by Isabel Allende and debut Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong, as well as Graham Swift’s England and Other Stories and Mothering Sunday and, most recently, F. Scott’s Fitzgerald’s I’d Die For You and Other Lost Stories. The latter "lost stories" were drawn from tales originally written by Fitzgerald during the mid and late 1930s while "mired in alcoholism" in the mountains of North Carolina.

Cope's promotion takes immediate effect. Jo Dickinson, fiction publishing director of S&S, said: "This very well deserved promotion reflects Rowan's hard work, talent and passion for Scribner. There are ambitious plans in place to build on all that has been achieved so far to cement Scribner as a leading force in international literary fiction and non-fiction."

Cope, associate publisher, Scribner, said: "I’m very proud of all we’ve achieved in a short time with the new Scribner imprint in the UK and in our international territories, and immensely excited about the next phase of our publishing. It is our authors and their books that are crucial to our success, and I’m delighted to say we have many brilliant new titles to look forward to."