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Headline Eternal promotes Sophie Keefe and Soraya Bouazzaoui joins the team
Sophie Keefe and Soraya Bouazzaoui will lead the vision for Headline Eternal as senior commissioning editors.
Keefe has been promoted with immediate effect and Bouazzaoui will join Headline on 23rd September from Harlequin. Keefe will be acquiring in fantasy and romantasy while Bouazzaoui will be looking to acquire "more broadly" for the Accent imprint.
In the four years she has worked at Headline, Keefe has managed the backlist and acquired new talent for the publisher’s romance imprint. She has recently acquired self-published authors Amber V Nicole, Ingrid Seymour, Logan Karlie and Penn Cole.
Jennifer Doyle, fiction publishing director, commented: "I am so excited about the future of the Eternal list, and how Sophie and Soraya’s vision and energy will revitalise it for the future. Sophie has impressed since the day she started at Headline; she has some fantastic acquisitions under her belt, and her strategic brain coupled with her lifelong passion for romance and fantasy has seen her go from strength to strength.
"Soraya’s energy and knowledge of romance (and every subgenre you can think of!) shone through at interview and I know that her proactivity and creativity will help take our romance publishing in particular to new heights."
Bouazzaoui added: "Anyone who knows me knows that romance runs through my veins. Headline Eternal is at the epicentre of hilarious, all-consuming and joyous romance books. I’m so incredibly excited to join the team and help Sophie and Jen take an iconic list to higher levels yet."
