Bookouture’s Dauman joins Headline as deputy publishing director

Lucy Dauman is leaving Bookouture, where she is associate publisher, to take up the newly created role of deputy publishing director for Headline fiction. 

Reporting to fiction publishing director Jennifer Doyle, she is tasked with driving the fiction team’s strategy for growth in crime and thriller as well as overseeing continued growth of its digital publishing. She will start the role on 16th May. 

During her 2½ years at Bookouture, Dauman acquired across all genres of commercial fiction, publishing authors such as Catherine Walsh, Victoria Jenkins, Carey Baldwin, Ruhi Choudhary and Sam Hepburn. She was also previously a senior commissioning editor for Sphere at Little, Brown, focusing on crime and thrillers, and publishing authors including  Vanessa Savage, Dervla McTiernan and Alex Gray.

Dauman said: “I have learned so much in my time at Bookouture, working with my hugely talented colleagues and authors there. However, I am really excited to now be taking the step back into traditional publishing with Jennifer Doyle’s fantastic team at Headline. I’ve long admired the authors they publish.”

Doyle added that Dauman had proven herself a talented editor and publisher and was “the perfect person” to lead the publisher’s growth in crime and thriller, both through her own acquisitions and through her strategic approach to the publishing overall.

“Her digital publishing expertise will only enhance our strength in this area and I’m looking forward to seeing what she does,” said Doyle.