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Bookouture has made a number of editorial promotions and hires aimed at consolidating its commercial fiction list and facilitating its plans to expand into the German market.
Christina Demosthenous, who joined Bookouture in 2017 as a commissioning editor before becoming an associate publisher in 2019, has been named publishing director.
During her tenure she has amassed a number of books such as The Boy in the Photo by Nicole Trope, Sophie Ranald’s Sorry Not Sorry and Ellie Midwood’s The Girl Who Escaped From Auschwitz.
In her new role, she will have the additional remit of overseeing intellectual property creation and content and will have greater input into copywriting across the editorial team.
She will continue to report to Ruth Tross, who has been promoted to publisher. Tross has been with Bookouture since 2019 and in her new role will oversee the creation of a new science fiction and fantasy imprint as well as continuing to manage one of Bookouture’s four fiction editorial teams. Tross will continue to report to Bookouture m.d. Jenny Geras.
The publisher’s German presence, following rights and translations director Peta Nightingale’s establishment of Bookouture Deutschland last year, is also expanding, with Louisa Pagel joining in June as publishing manager.
Pagel has been with Ullstein in Germany for the past eight years, and is currently an editorial director overseeing three commercial fiction lists. Based full-time in Berlin, she will report to Nightingale and manage scheduling and publishing across the Bookouture Deutschland list.
Nightingale said: “Louisa’s brilliant commercial eye, and knowledge and experience of the digital landscape for genre fiction in Germany will be invaluable as we expand our German project.”
Levke Kluge has also joined the German publishing team as editorial assistant.
Geras said: “I’m thrilled to congratulate Ruth and Christina on their promotions, which couldn’t be more deserved. They have both been critical to the incredible success and growth of Bookouture in the past five years, and I know they will continue to do great things for our commercial fiction list.
“And I couldn’t be more excited to have Louisa and Levke joining us. Peta Nightingale and her team have already achieved so much since we launched Bookouture Deutschland in the autumn of last year, and the growth of the team at this point enables us to ramp up the pace of growth in the German market.”