Millie Seaward made head of publicity at Doubleday covering parental leave

Millie Seaward, head of publicity for Dialogue Books, will join the publicity team at the beginning of December as FTC head of publicity for Doubleday, reporting to Alison Barrow and to cover Milly Reid’s parental leave.

Since early 2018, Seaward has managed all publicity for Dialogue Books, from launching the imprint within Little, Brown in June 2018 to leading its publicity strategy as head of publicity when it was made Hachette UK’s newest division in 2023.

She has previous experience at Little, Brown, Headline and started her publishing career at Cornerstone.

She won the PPC Q4 2020 award for her work on The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett and was highly commended in the PPC Q2 2020 awards for Rainbow Milk by Paul Mendez and PPC Q4 2021 for The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho by Paterson Joseph.

In 2021, Millie presented at The Bookseller conference her case study for the PR for Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan. She represented Hachette at the FutureBook Conference in 2022 presenting consumer research on minority audiences.

Alison Barrow, PR director for Transworld, said: "I have been a fan of Millie’s for a long while, and the feedback from the many journalists and event organisers with whom she has partnered has been exceptional. I am delighted she has chosen to join us to work across Doubleday Fiction and Non Fiction and some Torva titles over the next year."

Seaward said: "I’ve been a huge admirer of the publicity team at Transworld since I started my career in publishing. Working with the Doubleday editorial team on their incredible roster of authors is a dream come true and I’m very much looking forward to bringing my experiences from Dialogue Books to my campaigns."