Howkins made Headline marketing director as Thomas and Jackson join team 

Lucy Howkins, divisional director of digital and online for Hachette UK, has been appointed as Headline’s marketing director, succeeding Fergus Edmondson who is leaving to go freelance in July.

She will join the team from late July, having previously held senior marketing roles at Hodder & Stoughton, Atlantic Books and HarperCollins before taking up her current role in 2019.

Howkins said of her appointment: “I am very much looking forward to getting back into marketing after an invaluable stint earning my sales stripes, and I couldn’t ask for a better team to be doing it with. Headline consistently publishes some of the best and biggest books in the market, and there is a lot of exciting talent in the marketing team that I’m fortunate to have the opportunity to work with."

In other changes to the team, Joe Thomas, formerly of HQ, will be joining as head of publicity in early July.  He has worked on campaigns for authors such as Linwood Barclay and Tom Daley. Earlier this year he won the Publishers Publicity Circle Paperback Original Award for his work on Josie Lloyd’s The Cancer Ladies’ Running Club. He also founded HarperCollins’ Pride at HC employee network.